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Verizon (News - Alert) has announced the launch of high-definition (HD) video-on-demand (VOD) service in New York.

 

Verizon already offers HD VOD where FiOS (News - Alert) TV is available in California, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas and Virginia.

Verizon FiOS TV is delivered over the nation's most advanced fiber-optic network straight to customers' homes for an unparalleled high-definition signal that delivers pure picture quality and sound.

"As the popularity of high-definition programming continues to grow, we are delivering the best in HD content," Shawn Strickland, Verizon's vice president of video solutions said.

"With 10,000 titles each month, our overall video-on-demand library is the industry's largest, and we plan to offer more than 1,000 high-definition video-on-demand titles each month by the end of the year."

Verizon already has nearly doubled the number of titles in its HD on-demand library since launching the service and it recently announced new HD VOD content from CBS, Discovery Channel, Music Choice, HDNet and Ovation TV.

"Increasing our HD content through video on demand is just one more way we're making FiOS TV the first and best choice for home entertainment," said Strickland.

"We're aggressively creating a competitive TV offering that includes the best content delivered over Verizon's superior fiber network - a combination that is a must-have for today's consumers. Our subscribers love video on demand because it frees them to enjoy a wide variety of entertainment on their own schedules."

Seventy percent of FiOS TV's video-on-demand titles in both standard and high definition each month are free of charge to subscribers.

Customers access video on demand simply by pressing the "VOD" or "On Demand" button on their remote control or by using the main menu on FiOS TV's interactive media guide, or selecting the VOD channel.

Anil Sharma is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To see more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.