I have it... well part of it. I went to Widgets to get the Facebook thing and found it to be a little more annoying than I wanted, but I stuck through it. First of all, they don't separate widgets for each one. They have this weird, red box that takes you to a second screen with Sudoku, Twitter, Facebook, and ESPN Fantasy Football. I played a game of Sudoku, but I don't have or do Twitter and don't use ESPN for my FF, so the only one I was somewhat interested was Facebook.
Apparently, you need to have your parental controls setup to use Facebook, but since I live in a house with adult roommates, I never wanted to bother with that. It said I didn't have a choice, so I did. Afterward, when I went back in to do Facebook, it asked me for my pin. I entered it and the box proceeded to shut itself off and go through a full reset (aargh). Once it rebooted, it did work the second time, but I can't really picture myself using it that often. It seems like a novelty to me.
As far as the streaming video, it looks like I can't do any of it because I don't have or want Home Media Manager. Besides the extra money, the main reason I don't want it is because I have two HD DVRs in the house (one in the LR and one in my BR) and I doubt the system would be smart enough to know that, since one of the main features is to view your DVR recordings on other STBs in the house. Unless it magically pulled from both STBs, how would it know which STB to pull from?
All in all, this news isn't that great for me, but I love the fact that they're still innovating and trying to make a better experience. I don't think anyone else tries half as hard as Verizon does with FIOS.
By the way, I knew that codec support wouldn't have included MKV. That would have just been way too cool.
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I have it... well part of it. I went to Widgets to get the Facebook thing and found it to be a little more annoying than I wanted, but I stuck through it. First of all, they don't separate widgets for each one. They have this weird, red box that takes you to a second screen with Sudoku, Twitter, Facebook, and ESPN Fantasy Football. I played a game of Sudoku, but I don't have or do Twitter and don't use ESPN for my FF, so the only one I was somewhat interested was Facebook.
Apparently, you need to have your parental controls setup to use Facebook, but since I live in a house with adult roommates, I never wanted to bother with that. It said I didn't have a choice, so I did. Afterward, when I went back in to do Facebook, it asked me for my pin. I entered it and the box proceeded to shut itself off and go through a full reset (aargh). Once it rebooted, it did work the second time, but I can't really picture myself using it that often. It seems like a novelty to me.
As far as the streaming video, it looks like I can't do any of it because I don't have or want Home Media Manager. Besides the extra money, the main reason I don't want it is because I have two HD DVRs in the house (one in the LR and one in my BR) and I doubt the system would be smart enough to know that, since one of the main features is to view your DVR recordings on other STBs in the house. Unless it magically pulled from both STBs, how would it know which STB to pull from?
All in all, this news isn't that great for me, but I love the fact that they're still innovating and trying to make a better experience. I don't think anyone else tries half as hard as Verizon does with FIOS.
By the way, I knew that codec support wouldn't have included MKV. That would have just been way too cool.