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With Standalone HBO, How Much Will It Cost to Cut the Cord?

Sometime next year, HBO is going to start offering HBO without a cable subscription. It’s what we’ve been waiting for, and it means maybe, just maybe, you’ll be able to finally cut the cord. The question remains as to how much that’ll cost—will it really be much cheaper than a traditional cable package? Let’s run…

AT&T’s $40 Internet, HBO and Amazon Prime Plan Is One Hell of a Deal

In the quest to entice us into their cord-tethered grasps, cable companies will come up with anything to win us over. But AT&T might have struck upon the first truly innovative deal: Broadband, plus HBO, and a year’s subscription to Amazon Prime. For only $39 per month. The closest one might come to such a…

HBO Is “Seriously Considering” Offering HBO Go Without Cable TV

Hey, all you HBO Go moochers, there is still hope of getting a standalone HBO Go subscription at a totally-not-a-rip-offprice without paying for cable TV first. HBO is now “seriously considering” the possibility of making that happen. At an investment conference, Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes was asked by Goldman Sachs analyst Drew Borst whether…

Amazon Prime Folks Can Watch HBO Shows Starting Today

Last month Amazon and HBO announced a deal that would give Amazon Prime members access to HBO content without an HBO membership. Today the first batch of shows are available on Amazon. Here’s what’s going to Amazon today: The Sopranos The Wire Deadwood Rome Six Feet Under Eastbound & Down Enlightened Flight of the Conchords…

Why the HBO-Amazon Deal Is Good for Everyone (Except Netflix)

HBO and Amazon just put a ring on it with a giant, multi-year deal that will put HBO originals on Amazon Prime exclusively. Woooooo! That means you don’t need an HBO subscription to watch old episodes of everything from the Wire to Eastbound & Down. And in this game of everything-but-Game-of-Thrones, everyone wins; Amazon, HBO,…

HBO Is Bringing a Ton of Its Shows to Amazon Prime

Amazon just announced an agreement that makes Prime Instant Video the only place you can watch HBO originals online without an HBO subscription. Starting May 21st, Prime members will get exclusive, unlimited streaming access to pretty much every HBO original you’re interested in except Game of Thrones. Right out of the gate, Prime members will…

If You Want to Watch Game of Thrones, Maybe Just Pay For It

Last night, Game of Thrones fans flocked to HBO Go as soon as the season four premiere was available. They were met with error after error, taking to the internet to complain about the shoddy service. What they should have done instead? Actually subscribe to HBO. Crazy, I know. Richard Lawson made a similar point…

Amazon’s Fire TV Doesn’t Have HBO Go

Amazon debuted its $100 streaming TV box today. It’s impressive! It’s affordable! And it has a whole bunch of apps. It just doesn’t have HBO Go, which is probably the one app that so, so many folks were hoping for. And that could be problematic. To be fair, just because Fire TV doesn’t have HBO…

How to Handle Internet Indecision

There are 6,245 restaurants on Seamless in New York City. Sometimes deciding between a roast beef sandwich and a pepperoni pizza is an impossible choice. But this is not an isolated dilemma—the question of what to watch, what to eat, and what to click is indicative of an issue that plagues the whole internet. Unfortunately…

Streaming TV Isn’t Ready for Prime Time

So you’ve done it. You’ve cut the cord. You’ve got your Netflix and your Hulu Plus and your Aereo and your cousin’s HBO GO password and a bag of popcorn. You’re comfortable with the sacrifices—honestly, mostly just ESPN—and prepared to embrace the glorious future of television. Only problem? The future of television’s not prepared for…

True Detective Finale Crashes HBO GO

Netflix must be really laughing its ass off right now, as everyone trying to watch the season finale of True Detective complain about HBO GO not being available. HBO GO has crashed—it’s been deader than Rust Cohle’s soul for the last three hours. I’ve tried it at least two dozen times—both through my computer and…

You can now stream HBO Go on your Chromecast, woo! And that brings your number of options to a whopping total of four. Come on Chromecast, keep up that streak.

Comcast’s HBO + Internet Plan Is the One You’ve Been Waiting For

No cable, no problem. The rumors that Comcast is going to let you pay for HBO like you pay for Netflix are true. Comcast is now the first company to let you have HBO without being trapped in a basic cable plan. https://gizmodo.com/comcast-plans-to-offer-the-closest-thing-to-an-hbo-go-s-1451859769 Comcast is testing an offering called Internet Plus, which gives you broadcast…

Comcast Plans to Offer the Closest Thing to an HBO Go Subscription

The entire Internet would very much appreciate it if HBO offered an HBO Go subscription without the need to have cable. We want to pay for HBO Go like we pay for Netflix. But that hasn’t happened… yet. But people are trying! Even cable companies. Comcast has come up with a new package that’s probably…

Apple TV Just Got HBO Go and WatchESPN

Apple TV just plugged two very big holes in its streaming content: HBO and ESPN. The streaming box will now play content from the HBO Go and WatchESPN apps. And that’s good news for just about everyone involved. Apple TV has always been a very nice streaming box to use, but lately, it had fallen…

HBO Go will supposedly stream live boxing by the end of the year. We’ll be holding our breath until then.

HBO’s CEO Says an HBO Go + Broadband Internet Package Could Work

Yeah, yeah, shut up and take your money. Well, it looks like HBO just might. CEO Richard Plepler told Reuters that he thinks HBO “has the right model”, but the popular HBO Go service could evolve to be paired with broadband internet subscriptions. HBO has been pretty dogged about saying it wasn’t interested in offering…

HBO Go for Android now supports HDMI video output, so you can pipe video to a big screen. [Play]

Good news Girls enthusiasts—HBO Go is finally getting AirPlay support starting today, and so is Showtime!

Apple TV Will Get HBO Go Soon

HBO Go, the greatest streaming service known to mankind, will be coming to the Apple TV this year. Bloomberg is reporting that the HBO Go app will pop up on Apple’s little black box by the middle of 2013. The next months are going to be suspenseful! HBO Go is already available on iOS but…