This week I’ve seen a lot of commercials for Verizon FIOS multi room dvr. This looks really cool and is something that’s right up my alley. Verizon’s Multi Room DVR works from one dvr unit. Someone in the living room can pause a show and go into the bedroom and resume watching from there. Or, someone can watch a recorded show in the living room while someone else watches a different recording in another room. If you’ve got Verizon FIOS you can also take advantage of the included Media Manager, which allows people to use their television to listen to music from their computers and view pictures and slide shows. I hope DirecTV comes out with something like this soon for the satellite customers.

I read on Msnbc that Cablevision announced that as of today three million of its cable customers will have caller id on screen. Comcast has plans to market this feature in markets in the future. Time Warner currently offers it in some areas.
What I can’t figure out is why this is big news. I have DirecTv satellite televison and we’ve had this feature built into our receiver for a while now.