Revver and Verizon bring online videos to FiOS TV

As companies like Sling Media, TiVo, and Apple continue to release products and software upgrades that let you watch online or downloaded video on your TV, service providers like Comcast and Verizon are cutting out the middle man.

First, Comcast goes and partners with Facebook to bring some Facebook videos to an on-demand channel and an upcoming TV series. And now Verizon's gone and partnered with Revver to bring user generated videos to the phone company's television service.

The service, which should be available later this year will let users browse through Revver videos from their couch using a remote control. The videos won't be streamed directly from Revver, but will be stored on a Verizon server, which makes me think that you won't be able to access every video available on Revver, but rather a smaller subset of videos.

Verizon Wireless customers already have access to some Revver videos through Verizon's V Cast service.