After a couple days of excited speculation on sites like BroadbandReports.com, it was officially announced today that Verizon FiOS TV's high-definition video-on-demand service is now available in parts of eight more states: California, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Texas.

Verizon FiOS launched HD VOD in Florida, Indiana, western Pennsylvania and Virginia last December, and will be adding the service in New York and Oregon "in the coming weeks."

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

After what has been perceived by some industry pundits as a slow start in the HD realm, Verizon FiOS TV appears to be quickly closing the gap in the number of its HD offerings -- meaning FiOS customers will not have to choose between "quantity vs. quality" as they might with other providers.

Posted by Jim 2.0 | tagged: rollout, VoD, FiOS, HD, TV