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Note: Today's guest blogger is James Gowen, Verizon's Chief Sustainability Officer, and a spark plug of a guy. In addition to focusing on cutting energy and increasing efficiency, he also oversees the company's supply chain, which means he works with vendors and partners like Motorola and many others on ensuring that the equipment we order and products and services we offer are increasingly greener and sustainable.
Velcro is great! You can even use it to watch TV. Well, not quite yet, but one day your set-top box, that appliance that lets you watch Modern Family in HD or DVR Monday Night Football, will be so small and light weight that you’ll be able to Velcro it to the back of your TV.
Let’s take it a step further. You’ll be able to use a media server in one room to watch live, recorded or on-demand content in other rooms as long as you have an IP connected device like a game console or a blu ray player.
In our labs in Waltham, Mass., we’re busy working with partners to develop the future of TV. The teams there focus heavily on breaking down old tech barriers and on pushing the boundaries to deliver premier user experiences, but they’re also focused on increasing the energy efficiency of the devices that keep our customers connected—the devices that keep our customers entertained.
Our recent announcement of an app on Microsoft’s Xbox that lets FiOS TV customers watch 26 channels via the console certainly points to what’s to come. In the meantime, we continue the evolution of the set-top box by making your TV watching experience a little greener.
In 2011, more than 70 percent of the set-top boxes we installed were ENERGY STAR certified. These boxes use approximately 30% less energy in customer homes than previous models. Already, 100 percent of the set-top boxes we’re ordering are also ENERGY STAR certified.
Many of us can remember when TV and video only lived in the living room; or more recently when we all huddled around the family PC to watch a video on YouTube. Video is quickly going everywhere.
In the meantime, be sure to hold on to that Velcro. You never know when you might need it.
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Bill Kula
Director -- Media Relations
Bill oversees the Verizon telecom customer experience, consumer bundles, DSL, e-commerce and small business. He helps customers learn about efficient ways to manage their Verizon services.
Maitreyi Krishnaswamy
Director - Product Management
Maitreyi is responsible for Verizon's entertainment products. Check out @VerizonFiOS on Twitter, for insight, thoughts & news about FiOS TV.
Alberto Canal
Alberto is in the public relations group. He loves to share tech, sustainability, feel-good, and random news of interest. A happy FiOS quad play customer, he likes to use his family as guinea pigs.
Deidre Hart
Manager -- Media Relations
Deidre is a member of the consumer PR team and loves to talk everything FiOS and everything football. She’s also a happy Triple Play customer.
Phil Santoro
Phil has been extolling the virtues of FiOS ever since he had his Triple Play installed and can’t image how he ever managed without it. He writes about developing technologies that enable him to fuel his addiction to movies and sports whenever he wants, no matter where he is.
Caroline Wilson
Caroline manages the Verizon FiOS Google+ page, capturing the latest in entertainment, technology, sports and everything in between. She loves using social media and the written word to extend the FiOS conversation.
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