HD Video-on-Demand Now Playing on Verizon FiOS TV

1,000 HD VOD Titles Expected by the End of 2008

    NEW YORK, Dec. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Just in time for the holiday season,
 Verizon is unwrapping high-definition video-on-demand in many of its FiOS
 TV markets.
 
     HD VOD is now available over the FiOS TV systems in Richmond and
 Virginia Beach, Va.; Tampa, Fla.; Fort Wayne, Ind.; and Pittsburgh. It is
 coming soon to the FiOS systems in the Washington, D.C., metro area,
 Massachusetts and Rhode Island; and to Verizon's remaining FiOS TV markets
 next year.
 
     "Whether they're buying their first HDTV or their fourth this holiday
 season, HD customers always want more HD programming," said Shawn
 Strickland, Verizon's vice president of video solutions. "We're delivering
 HD on demand with the same amazing picture quality that customers expect
 from FiOS TV -- and with the promise of more HD programming in 2008."
 
     Verizon last month said it expects to have more than 150 HD channels by
 the end of 2008 as it continues to add to its HD lineup, and programmers
 launch new channels. It also said that it would increase its HD VOD titles
 to more than 1,000 in 2008.
 
     Verizon's initial HD VOD offering contains around 75 HD titles
 including a mix of free programs and recently released blockbuster movies
 such as "Transformers;" "The Hoax," starring Richard Gere; "Mr. Brooks,"
 with Kevin Costner and Demi Moore; and the animated "Surf's Up." Free HD
 titles run the gamut from MTV music videos to shows from Wealth TV and
 Golfweek Magazine. Also on Verizon HD VOD, horror fans can sample the
 short-form mini-series "30 Days of Night: Blood Trails" from FEARnet, a
 horror and thriller Web site and video-on-demand service, and produced by
 Ghost House Pictures. In the coming months, the company will continue to
 add HD titles to its VOD library, which now totals more than 10,000 titles.
 
     Customers access video-on-demand simply by pressing the "VOD" or "On
 Demand" button on their remote control, through a menu on FiOS TV's
 interactive media guide, or by tuning into channel 900. Customers need an
 HDTV and an HD set-top box to view the on-demand titles in high definition.
 
     About Verizon FiOS TV
 
     Verizon offers FiOS TV on the nation's most advanced fiber-optic
 network straight to customers' homes and businesses. At the end of the
 third quarter 2007, Verizon had 717,000 FiOS TV customers in 12 states. The
 service was available for sale to 4.7 million premises, and penetration
 averaged 15.2 percent across all markets.
 
     Verizon Communications Inc. ( VZ), headquartered in New York, is a
 leader in delivering broadband and other wireline and wireless
 communication innovations to mass market, business, government and
 wholesale customers. Verizon Wireless operates America's most reliable
 wireless network, serving 63.7 million customers nationwide. Verizon's
 Wireline operations include Verizon Business, which delivers innovative and
 seamless business solutions to customers around the world, and Verizon
 Telecom, which brings customers the benefits of converged communications,
 information and entertainment services over the nation's most advanced
 fiber-optic network. A Dow 30 company, Verizon has a diverse workforce of
 nearly 238,000 and last year generated consolidated operating revenues of
 more than $88 billion. For more information, visit www.verizon.com.
 
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