Steve Mensing, Editor
♦ At Salisbury’s last City Council meeting on November 17th John “Magic Math” Sofley announced Fibrant was launching it’s version of TV Everywhere meaning they can watch TV on their computer, tablet, or smart phone (A sure bet to eat up your data plan unless you have T-Mobile which has unlimited data). You can watch Sofley’s presentation on the City’s video of the November 17th meeting. It appears toward the video’s end during the city manager’s comments.
The Fibrant website provides a satisfactory description and FAQ of Fibrant’s Watch TV Everywhere:
http://fibrant.solutions/Residential/Video/TV-Everywhere
Before contrasting Fibrant’s TV Everywhere with Salisbury’s four incumbent TV service providers’ Apps for TV everywhere, as someone being pro consumer I would not consider subscribing to Fibrant’s TV service. Fibrant’s TV services are not competitive in price with the areas TV services of AT&T U-Verse, TWC, DirecTV, and Dish. Also Fibrant’s set-top boxes were bulk purchased several years ago and represent an “earlier” stage of technology.
On the plus side Fibrant finally stumbled across with at least a rudimentary method to achieve “TV everywhere”. I and most TV viewers in the area who experienced Salisbury’s incumbent TV providers apps for TV everywhere such as those state-of-the art technologies for TV everywhere employed by AT&T U-verse, TWC, DirecTV and Dish are going to find Fibrant’s Watch TV Everywhere:
• Prehistoric
• It’s installation overly convoluted with too many hoops to jump through
• Having to put up an army of network icons is time consuming to install and likely to crowd your tablet or other internet enabled device
• Cause for the technology anxious to feel overwhelmed when faced with typing in their account names in uppercase lettering and overwhelming Fibrant’s alleged “3 employees” changing traffic lights somewhere in “unsolved murder” city.
As Mom used to say: “It’s better than nothing.” In Salisbury, TV viewers really don’t have to deal with “better than nothing” or pay for over-priced TV services when they can get far better services and technology at cheaper prices from AT&T U-Verse, TWC, DirecTV, or Dish.
