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"LG has announced that Smart TVs from its 2012 series can now work as alternative set-top boxes, offering Verizon FiOS's subscribers 75 TV channels and the movie-on-demand service Flex View.\r\n\r\nThe announcement comes almost three months after Verizon introduced a similar app for the Smart TV platform of another major vendor, Samsung.\r\n\r\nVerizon FiOS TV and Internet subscribers, who own one of the LG Smart TVs released this year, can access the Verizon's application via the Smart World section in the interface.\r\n\r\nThe app offers live streaming of 75 popular channels, including Food Network, NFL Network, TBS, VH1, and HBO (subscription required). Apart from this, users can access the Flex View library with more than 25,000 on-demand movies to rent or purchase.\r\n\r\nFor families with children, the application features parental PIN options to restrict mature content and a possibility to require PIN for any purchase or rental of on-demand content.\r\n\r\nThe FiOS TV application,\u00A0is available on all 2012 LG Smart TV series and the connected Blu-ray player LG BP620.\r\n\r\nImage credit: Peter Macdiarmid /\u00A0Getty Images."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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