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At last, my location got access to the latest in broadcast alternatives, and we recently connected to Verizon’s latest Fiber-optic FIOS TV. It could be installed only last week though I signed up early this month, thanks to the lot more people waiting for it in my State. At the present time, we were hooked up with FIOS internet, which provided 15MB downstream as well as upstream (a premium service for an additional monthly fee of $10) and have found myself very satisfied with it.

Installation to connect my TV was a breeze because I currently had internet with Verizon FIOS. The technician installed the cables by taking my existing coax splitter and splitting the signal before the router. Once inside, the coax splits and goes into all the rooms and then one of the downstream cables connects with the Verizon Internet Router’s Coax. From that point the router communicated TCP/IP over RJ-45 and provides the house, but this is also used to assign IP addresses to the DVR over coax. A DVR is known as a Digital Video Recorder. It allows you to record programs to a hard disk for viewing later. that comes included along with your FIOS TV bundle.

While the interface is really intuitive, in addition it comes with lots of innovative shortcuts that you’ll find while using it. For instance, while viewing TV, choose one of the direction indicators on the controls to take you (this can be done as a shortcut) to a variety of functions, instantaneously. For example, pressing the up button takes you to the TV Guide split screen mode with the TV picture shown on the left, and pressing the down button takes you to the half-screen floating TV guide. If you press “Guide” a single time, it delivers the full-screen menu, while hitting it two times takes you to a split-screen. Pressing the button marked “Info” once will give you a small pop up with information about the TV show you’re watching and hitting it again will give you full-screen information.

The DVR can store approximately 17 hours of HD TV or 60 hours of standard TV. (Similar Defintion) or whichever combination of options you choose. Like with the majority of DVR devices, it is possible to adjust every recording as “protected”. (not deleted in an automatic manner) You may fix yourself in a queue with the last x recordings. It’s possible to choose just the latest programs, or every show, with reruns included.

The price for core package is 43$ a month. For this you get several DVR options ranging from standard HD, standard DVR and HD DVR. Cable was costing us close to $60 and we don’t watch enough TV to justify spending that much. Premium channels cost the same as with cable, most likely since HBO and Showtime set their own costs, rather than the provider.

We have been very pleased with the results. It is my opinion that the first month of Verizon FIOS TV in my state has set the stage right for its great progress. It is recommended over local cable if you can get it.

Have you checked your Blog or Internet Forum Lately? Have you noticed more hits than usual or possible considering your click-out rates and trickle payments for AdSense? Well all those hits may not be actual hits at all. You see what appears to be happening is that the pages of your website are recording hits, as the back end of the website is set to count the hits of spidering search engines, like Google Bot, as they go thru the data bases of all your pages.

So your Blog show to you that you have more hits, when they are nothing more than Google’s Bot going thru your index. Although this is not too awfully serious you may wish to check it, especially if you are telling people that your website is receiving so many hits, when in actuality it is not.

This is not totally serious as the government does it also and then records them as citizen visits. But when a website for instance the Federal Trade Commission says it has 10 million visitors in a week, that could be a lie, because Google came thru twice that week and went thru every page to update their data bases. If their site has 20,000 pages, well that is 40,000 hits in error, now then with 10 million being off 40k is not significant but it is still wrong. Then as the FTC backs up their own databases each day or 2 times per week there is another 40K off. So now we are at 80K mistake.

Now then being off 80,000 on 10,000,000 is not significant, yet it is still a misrepresentation isn’t it. You see the problems with hit counters? If it is not set right, it is automatically incorrect. Additionally unique visitors are the true value of a website, not merely additional pages clicked or someone roaming around clicking away. It is nice to know that some are exploring your site, but to what avail. Think on this in 2006.

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