Verizon introduces Verizon FiOS TV's interactive media guide in Massachusetts. The new guide helps customers quickly and easily find and enjoy content from TV listings, video-on-demand catalogs and digital video recorders as well as personal music and photos from the home network. Future versions of the guide will add Internet radio, videos, podcasts and games to the FiOS TV multimedia platform.

FiOS TV's interactive media guide is now deployed to customers in 51 cities and towns in Massachusetts as well as in parts of New Jersey, Indiana, Rhode Island and Virginia -- and will soon be available in more states. There is no additional charge for the guide.

Several hundred Boston-area customers provided input on the design of the new guide at Verizon's Waltham technology labs before its national rollout.

"Our new interactive media guide is the latest exciting development from FiOS TV," said Shawn Strickland, Verizon vice president of video solutions. "We've capitalized on our investment in an ultra-fast, highly responsive fiber-optic network to deliver a customer experience that marries the best interactivity of the Web with the highest-quality programming experience in the marketplace. The interactive media guide erases the lines between TV, Internet and personal media and makes it easy for customers to personalize and enjoy media throughout their homes."