- edited
Boxing and mixed martial arts (MMA) fans are about to get an interactive ringside seat on FiOS TV with Showtime Sports Interactive. For industry-watchers, it's the first HD Interactive EBIF offering (more about that later).
Starting this Friday (Feb. 26) at 11 p.m. ET with Showtime's "Strikeforce Challengers" mixed martial arts event, FiOS TV HD customers who also subscribe to Showtime have the first look at this high-def interactive experience.
Showtime Sports Interactive gives our customers access to fighter stats, bios, ring records, fighter trivia games, interactive polling, fight calendars and more - all on your TV screen while
watching the event in FiOS TV HD. As soon as the fight starts, customers can click the "OK" button on the FiOS remote control to access all of the interactive features.
Verizon is the first to offer this nationwide interactive application, giving our customers just another experience cable doesn't offer.
For those interested in the technology, it uses EBIF (Enhanced TV Binary Interchange Format), the cable industry's accepted platform for the delivery of interactive services, which can run on all Verizon FiOS set-top boxes.
Some other firsts? How about the first-ever HD EBIF application and the first-ever EBIF experience that incorporates voting and polling? Verizon also was the first company to deploy a nationwide EBIF interactive TV application to all of its subscribers during the Winter Games.
Watch the fight this Friday, and check out the next one April 24 with the Super Six World Boxing ChampionshipThen let us know how interactivity changes your viewing experience.
Please note: Please register as a member of the Verizon Community Forums to comment here.
 |
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.
-
kreitz1026
on:
FiOS Leads Industry in Latest American Customer Satisfacti
on Index -
prisaz
on:
Multiethnic TV Awards Honors Verizon - gdub312 on: NBC Sports Live Extra Now on My Verizon
- toolhull on: Verizon Introduces Sports Pass for FiOS TV
- sister2 on: Why I Still Love My Home Phone
- mgrremovals on: What to Watch – April 5 - 11
- Juicyloo10 on: Not Resting on Our Laurels, We’ll Continue to Make FiOS Even More Valuable For Customers
-
Deivy84
on:
FiOS Free Preview -- Spanish-la
nguage channels free this week -
PhilSantoro
on:
5 Tips to Speed up Your Home Broadband Network
- ungeneric on: What to Watch – March 22 - 28
