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Fresh on the heels of TiVo Adding YouTube videos, Verizon is beta testing its own version of DVR web video.  The Verizon offering integrates YouTube as well as videos from Veoh, Blip.tv and Break.com.  Web video will be a part of Verizon's premium Media Manager service.

In addition to serving up those large video aggregation sites, Media Manager software also facilitates shipping virtually any video podcast to your DVR. The functionality is similar to what TiVo provides today. However, from a conceptual and functional point of view Verizon’s solution looks like it’ll be more elegant - allowing you to add RSS subscriptions directly to Media Manager via web browser.