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In article <460d12a3$0$4911$4c368faf@roadrunner.com>,
	"OCSDFW" <ocsdfw@yahoo.com> writes:
> I am with Time Warner, formally Comcast for Broadband, Cable TV, and Digital 
> Phones.  Thinking about switching and was curios about how Verizon compared 
> as far as Features goes and reliability.  I am getting tired of having weak 
> signal strength on TV and having them come out to fix it just for it to 
> happen again a few months later. The TV signals have been doing this for 
> years now. One day the picture looks good and other days it does not.  This 
> varies on 3 different cable boxes. Done all the obvious, switch boxes, 
> replace cables, etc.....   I guess them using Coax cabling does not help for 
> the long run. 

I've had Verizon FiOS since last October. The quality of the video is
excellent with well saturated color. There seems to be no loss of
quality due to over compression as I saw on the Dishnetwork system
this replaced. I use their HD DVR which is a 2 tuner model with a 120G
hard drive. It has 25 HD channels, 5 of which are premiums. There also
many Video on Demand programs provided too, some of which are free.
Also quite a lot of VOD by the premium channels if you subscribe. They
also sell a version of DVR that can feed its recorded programs to up
to 3 regular set-top boxes.

The broadband is also very good and comes with a free WiFi router
which is also used by the DVR for Video on Demand and for the guide.
The minimum rate is 5M and they offer up to 30M.

I also have the FiOS phone which like the rest of the service has been
flawless to this point.

The fiber connection point is outside and has a battery backup that
must be mounted indoors near it. The battery is supposed to last 5
hours to provide phone service when there is a power outage. It worked
just fine when we had a 1 hour outage a few months ago.

I save money over my previous Dish, Comcast broadband, and Verizon
standard phone services. I get everything I had before, but I now also
get more premiums and HD too which I did not have before.