RemyM
join:2005-02-14
Stamford, CT | HBO Go Coming to Cablevision »mashable.com/2011/12/19/hbo-go-cablevision/
Cablevision cable customers will soon be able to enjoy HBO Go.
The cable company was one of the few major holdouts when the service launched on the iOS and Android earlier this year. On Friday, another former holdout, Time Warner Cable, also announced that it will support HBO Go.
This is a big win for HBO — and for the TV Everywhere ecosystem. In a statement, HBO Co-President Eric Kessler says HBO Go will now be available to 98% of HBO subscribers.
HBO Go allows HBO subscribers to access every episode of every season of nearly every program in HBO’s vast library. This includes current shows, like Game of Thrones, True Blood and Boardwalk Empire, as well as past hits like The Sopranos, Sex and the City and Oz.
HBO Go also offers a wide array of movies, documentaries and original films — replicating the same content airing on HBO in a given month. HBO’s sister channel, Cinemax, also has its own TV Everywhere offering, MAX Go. HBO Go and MAX Go are available on iOS, Android and an increasing number of third-party devices, including the Xbox 360 and Roku.
The success of HBO Go — an app that managed 5 million downloads in just six months — is proof that TV Everywhere as a concept can work.
As a Brooklynite who uses Cablevision for my Internet and cable TV, I’m ecstatic that I can stop “borrowing” my parents Comcast ID and access HBO Go the official way. Cablevison says the service should roll out to customers in “the next few months.” |
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RemyM
join:2005-02-14
Stamford, CT | BETHPAGE, N.Y., Dec. 19, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Cablevision Systems Corp. (NYSE: CVC) today announced an agreement to offer its iO TV® customers access to HBO's authenticated online video destinations, HBO GO® and MAX GO®. Cablevision customers who subscribe to HBO and/or Cinemax will have free, unlimited access to the corresponding online services at any time, on any computer in the U.S. with a high-speed Internet connection as well as iPad®, iPhone®, iPod touch® and select Android™ devices. The company expects to launch these services in the next few months. Read more here: »www.sacbee.com/2011/12/19/413313···link=cpy |
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dm145
join:2009-12-12
Clifton, NJ | reply to RemyM
any word on CV offering HBO/Cinemax OnDemand free to subs like the other premiums?
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Unlike Comcast, hopefully Cablevision will allow us to use HBO GO on third party streaming devices such as Roku. |
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| I have had this for over a year and half already. Geez... HBO/Cinemax/Showtime/ect... Get up with the times already |
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 Jmartz
join:2000-07-20
Tenafly, NJ | Don't worry. Price increases will be sure to follow. It's that time of year. But his is a good addition and worth it. |
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| Cablevision Systems Corp. on Monday announced an agreement with Time Warner’s HBO to offer HBO Go and Max Go on home computers, laptops and mobile devices to Cablevision subscribers who have HBO and or Cinemax.
Bethpage-based Cablevision said iO TV customers will have access to the on-demand "Go" programming on any computer with a high-speed Internet connection as well as on iPads, iPhones, iPod touches and certain Android devices. The company said the service will be available a few months from now, but did not give a specific launch date. |
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jpr281
join:2006-01-12
Shirley, NY | How about adding ESPN3. |
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 JohnILMHollaPremium
join:2003-03-15
Tuckahoe, NY | said by jpr281:How about adding ESPN3.
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Let's get some ESPN3 action and the ability to use the XBox as a cable box. With the ability to get NFL Sunday Ticket on PS3, options are finally coming to the masses. |
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Don't have HBO anymore. But god damn do I want some ESPN3. We dropped the movies that we never watch for the sports package. Why? I watch sports, and I have a 93 year old grandmother living with me :P. |
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 e2727Bklynguy
join:2001-10-30
Brooklyn, NY | When will it be starting? |
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| said by e2727:When will it be starting?
Over the next several months, according to the press release. |
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Wow, either the world is ending or we are due for a major storm. Didn't think I'd ever see the day Cablevision actually allow us access to something great.
Hopefully we'll be able to access it through the Xbox 360 once HBO launches the app.
Now if we could only get NFL Network, Redzone and ESPN 3. I might actually start to like this horrid company again. |
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 RickNYPremium
join:2000-11-02
Manorville, NY | reply to RemyM
Kind of off topic, but I find it amusing that it took so long for CV to work this out -- especially considering that Charles Dolan was the founder of HBO. |
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Jmartz
join:2000-07-20
Tenafly, NJ | I think its coincidental that this happened after Rutledge left. Perhaps Dolan wasn't the one holding it this one up. |
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dm145
join:2009-12-12
Clifton, NJ Reviews:
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| said by Jmartz:I think its coincidental that this happened after Rutledge left. Perhaps Dolan wasn't the one holding it this one up.
you mean it is not coincidental? |
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JohnILMHollaPremium
join:2003-03-15
Tuckahoe, NY | reply to RemyM
I can't understand why it would take this long.
Whenever there's a dispute though, they'll pull a channel in a day.
Actually add something that users want..... takes months. |
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Mid-March is the earliest we've heard. |
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dm145
join:2009-12-12
Clifton, NJ | reply to JohnILM
sounds like they are waiting to add it to the new packages they are unveiling next month |
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| Alot of people thought CV was holding out against adding HBO Go due to just adding more costs. Now it seems we're going to see just how much added cost there will be. |
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