Up until 10/16/12 I was able to view any embedded images in my email. I use Verizon Webmail to view my email and I have IE9 and Windows Vista. Then even when I viewed old emails that had images that I had viewed successfully - these also were showing up half grey. I spent several hours on a Chat with Verizon and the tech setup me up to view my emails in Outlook 2007. Well while this was a round-about fix -- I would like to be able to view my images only in one place and I prefer to do it in Verizon Webmail where I have all of my contacts setup already. We know that Verizon made some kind of change on 10/16/12 refer to the article called "Verizon flips switch..."
It would be nice for Verizon to fix what they have disturbed so that customers can again view embedded images in emails sent to you. If this has something to do with global settings with incoming mail into Verizon's servers -- it truly needs to be addressed by Verizon.
Here's what the image looks like in my email:

--Penny5