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HBO is planning to allow people to watch it's shows without the need of a cable sub it seems HBO is planning to let you watch it's shows without the need of cable in 2015 it seems.
I personally think this is a great idea. http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/15/6...scription-2015
Sounds good mate, what are the top shows on HBO? and would we in the UK be able to access it through Tivo?
HBO is planning to allow people to watch it's shows without the need of a cable sub it seems HBO is planning to let you watch it's shows without the need of cable in 2015 it seems.
I personally think this is a great idea. http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/15/6...scription-2015
Will be interesting to see if we get it. I can not think of any objection sky will be able to raise.
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Sounds good mate, what are the top shows on HBO? and would we in the UK be able to access it through Tivo?
Some grat shows are Game of thrones, The leftovers, i like angry boys which is a Australian comedy. Also HBO has a lot of movies too for example some of the ones i've noticed this month on HBOGO are Prisoner, Ride along, Riddick amongst many others.
There is no info at the moment if it'll be on Tivo it's launching in USA first but plans to launch in other countries too at a later date.
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Some grat shows are Game of thrones, The leftovers, i like angry boys which is a Australian comedy. Also HBO has a lot of movies too for example some of the ones i've noticed this month on HBOGO are Prisoner, Ride along, Riddick amongst many others.
There is no info at the moment if it'll be on Tivo it's launching in USA first but plans to launch in other countries too at a later date.
Edit i've added a couple of screenshots of my hbogo so you get a fair idea of what it's like.
The app is much better than the browser though imo.
Some grat shows are Game of thrones, The leftovers, i like angry boys which is a Australian comedy. Also HBO has a lot of movies too for example some of the ones i've noticed this month on HBOGO are Prisoner, Ride along, Riddick amongst many others.
There is no info at the moment if it'll be on Tivo it's launching in USA first but plans to launch in other countries too at a later date.
Isn't 40% of Sky Atlantic's content from HBO so a lot of those shows would not be available. And Sky Movies has a deal with all the Hollywood Studios so a lot of its film content would be unavailable too.
It will be interesting to see if it comes to the UK. Certainly, HBO's approach of being available on all networks via direct subscriptions in the US contrasts with its content largely being on one platform - Sky via Sky Atlantic - in the UK.
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Isn't 40% of Sky Atlantic's content from HBO so a lot of those shows would not be available. And Sky Movies has a deal with all the Hollywood Studios so a lot of its film content would be unavailable too.
It will be interesting to see if it comes to the UK. Certainly, HBO's approach of being available on all networks via direct subscriptions in the US contrasts with its content largely being on one platform - Sky via Sky Atlantic - in the UK.
I reported HBO was doing this last year if some of you remember?
Anyway what i think will happen if HBO launches in uk which i think it will, sky will probably have first run rights then HBO will just have the content via on demand like they do on HBOGo.
Sky do have many agreements with hollywood studios but this hasn't stopped the likes of film4, netflix and amazon getting first run rights to movies what HBO will do i think is show movies via on demand but i wouldn't expect any latest releases maybe it'll be movies that have already premiered on sky etc?
Either way this shows HBO are now taking the onlinetv industry very seriously and i think others will follow suite such as Showtime, starz etc.
Very exciting times ahead i think.
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Certainly, HBO's approach of being available on all networks via direct subscriptions in the US contrasts with its content largely being on one platform - Sky via Sky Atlantic - in the UK.
Yes, I've commented on that previously. Is the fact that it's only on one provider in the UK, due to Sky taking advantage of HBO's greed?
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Both companies are trying to maximise their profits, call it greed, call it business.
I'm going for greed
The strange thing is, one of the HBO big wigs boasts about how GOT is the most illegally downloaded show and seems to revel in it, but limits the number of legal ways available to view it via streaming. Thankfully they seem to have woken up to the modern way of accessing media.
With the Sky deal in place, I think it will be a while before we get an official HBO streaming service in the UK.
Now TV provides a half baked way of doing it, but the lack of permanent back season availability and delays in showing new HBO shows and seasons, makes it a poor substitute IMHO.
The strange thing is, one of the HBO big wigs boasts about how GOT is the most illegally downloaded show and seems to revel in it, but limits the number of legal ways available to view it via streaming. Thankfully they seem to have woken up to the modern way of accessing media.
With the Sky deal in place, I think it will be a while before we get an official HBO streaming service in the UK.
Now TV provides a half baked way of doing it, but the lack of permanent back season availability and delays in showing new HBO shows and seasons, makes it a poor substitute IMHO.
Whilst keeping GoT Sky Atlantic-only will encourage some downloading in the UK, it wouldn't be enough to make it the most illegally downloaded show worldwide so that's credit to the show itself. But I never think it's a great idea to alienate those who want to buy your content but can't.
The strange thing is, one of the HBO big wigs boasts about how GOT is the most illegally downloaded show and seems to revel in it, but limits the number of legal ways available to view it via streaming. Thankfully they seem to have woken up to the modern way of accessing media.
With the Sky deal in place, I think it will be a while before we get an official HBO streaming service in the UK.
Now TV provides a half baked way of doing it, but the lack of permanent back season availability and delays in showing new HBO shows and seasons, makes it a poor substitute IMHO.
The strange thing is, one of the HBO big wigs boasts about how GOT is the most illegally downloaded show and seems to revel in it, but limits the number of legal ways available to view it via streaming. Thankfully they seem to have woken up to the modern way of accessing media.
With the Sky deal in place, I think it will be a while before we get an official HBO streaming service in the UK.
Now TV provides a half baked way of doing it, but the lack of permanent back season availability and delays in showing new HBO shows and seasons, makes it a poor substitute IMHO.
Sky's current deal with HBO runs until 2020 , do you really think that many in the UK would pay for HBO content as a standalone sub can't see it myself.
Half baked or not Now TV still offers premium HBO content along with content from many other studios and for the price of £6.99 how much would you expect a HBO standalone offering to be ?
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Sky's current deal with HBO runs until 2020 , do you really think that many in the UK would pay for HBO content as a standalone sub can't see it myself.
Half baked or not Now TV still offers premium HBO content along with content from many other studios and for the price of £6.99 how much would you expect a HBO standalone offering to be ?
Basing this on USA price it is $9.99p/m i believe in USA if they keep that same price structure when launched in uk it would be about £6.20.
The other option could be they launch a HBOGO service similar to HBOnordic which offers content from other providers too.
I think quite a few people will take the sub tbh, but i think Sky will probably get something like HBOGO included in a sub too.
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