Share Your Ideas with Verizon

[#1]

I was on the phone with a friend talking about a TV show that I recorded and she had not.  The idea of emailing her the show to her play list came to mind.      If we are both FIOS Internet and FIOS TV customers, then using an email widget from the TV screen or an option on my playlist, I would like to send the show to a friends play list to watch.   List of contacts from selected email account will need to be available to select sender.  Now on Receivers end, she would have to accept the show option with sender name, name of show and description  for it to download to her list.   This accept option is not for Pay Per View shows or content on channels not available to the receiving system, without a fee.  If the customer has the channel then the cost is free.   Example, we both have HBO, we can send movies to each other but if only the sender has HBO, the person accepting does not have the channel then she pays a one-time fee, if legal otherwise  the send is denied with channel not available to sender message.   If the person accepting the show, does not have space on there play list, then the systems prompts giving deleting options that will allow enough space or an option to accept later so the person can watch some of those options prior to deleting.  If you accept later, then when ready just click on the accept option, anytime.  I think this would be really cool feature requiring FIOS.  An ideas to make it better?

[#2]

Definitely dig it. Share with friend. This could also be cool proactively. Something like sharing the shows you have scheduled to record?

[#3]

It isn't a bad idea. In fact it was known as poopli on ReplayTV and it allowed users to request and share shows.I believe it is actually still active.  There are several potential issues which hold it back regretfully.

The big issue is the content providers allowing it which probably won't happen. The first people to step up and oppose the option will be the NFL since nothing would stop you from recording a game and sending it to someone who is in a market where the game is blacked out. Another issue is if you are in one city and the person is in another city, what happens if the show has local commercials inserted? Do they see your commercials or are those shows blocked or do those shows somehow get the local commercials inserted based on where the recipient lives?

Another issue is the size of the recordings. If you are recording a HD show you are looking around 9GBs per hour show depending on how that network compresses their signal before Verizon gets it. While over the local network, streaming or transfering the episode won't take but maybe a few minutes, you would be looking at a much longer upload and download time. Luckily FiOS has nice speeds so it wouldn't be as bad as if you were on other providers.

[#4]

I made the same post back here...

http://forums.verizon.com/t5/Share-Your-Ideas-with-Verizon/Share-DVR-content-between-friends-and-fam...

Glad to see you are looking into it.

[#5]

We address the content rights issues two ways: can only be viewed if the content has been purchased by the receiving party or through what are called marketing rights... So you could share 1 time with someone that didn't buy the content.... But the second time they have to pay... Last I don't think we would serve it directly from the DVR.. Rather it would come off servers in our network... So even customers without DVR's can play....

[#6]

What about as a precursor to this, the ability to share timers? Lets say you find a new show you think a friend might like. Instead of having to tell them the channel, time, name, etc, you just send the timer to them directly, and then their DVR will record it when it comes on.

[#7]

MatthewH12

That is definitely a nice next step... but before we get there... we need some kind of address book on the TV... and last thing I want personally is another device with its own address book (UGH!)... so we have to solve that problem first, but we've got a few ideas on that front