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ads? users? price?How many ads?
How many users can use it
Most importantly, what kind of price?
Is it going to be hulu style where if you have HBO, you'll get more and better programming?
If it's too much and if it sucks like Hulu, I'll stick to piratebay.
I'm waiting for the day Google movies will turn like Google music. Where i can upload my videos to the cloud and stream it on my chromecast and wherever the heck I want. | |
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| MajestikWorld Traveler Premium Member join:2001-05-11 Tulsa, OK |
Majestik
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2014-Oct-15 12:14 pm
Re: ads? users? price?For me cutting the cord is more than just "Broadband only". It's viewing when and where I prefer,very few or no commercials,free wifi,ala carte,books,streaming radio,podcasts,outdoor activities,gym,work,travel,etc., all while only paying $15/mo. Not interested. Never paid for HBO service. Haven't watched HBO since around 1980 I think. | |
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| dfxmatt join:2007-08-21 Crystal Lake, IL |
to bigballer
I agree. How this server is presented is going to define whether or not it's worth investing into. I fully expect HBO to completely screw this up at first until they work out details. | |
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Re: ads? users? price?If they just leave the service the way it works now and charge the same as they charge for the HBO channel, it would be a big hit. | |
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dfxmatt
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2014-Oct-15 12:38 pm
Re: ads? users? price?I have no idea how it works right now, because I don't pay for TV service. Cord is cut. How does it work right now? Comparable to hulu, netflix, plex? | |
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Re: ads? users? price?Well, I don't have Hulu, but I have Netflix, and it's similar to that. In HBOGo, it lists the movies and series and stuff that are available, and you just sort through the seasons of show to each episode and play it. No ads, and pretty much everything on HBO that month as well as most of their back catalog of series is available. I use my PS3 to watch it, but also a PC or I think Roku can view it too. | |
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dfxmatt
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2014-Oct-15 12:44 pm
Re: ads? users? price?That's pretty good, actually. Do they remove content or not really? Like, if someone wanted to watch all of Sopranos would it still be there at this point?
I could see this being pretty compelling if it works as you say, then. | |
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Re: ads? users? price?No, it always stays on there because they own that and made it. Some movies they make always stay on there too and things like Band of Brothers. But each month, the movies come and go, just like on the HBO channel, I guess because they don't own them. I don't know if that may change because they'd have to buy the internet rights instead of the TV rights. But currently, all of their own stuff is always available...Sopranos, GOT, Six Feet Under, Sex and the City, Boardwalk Empire, etc. | |
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Do they remove or add large amounts of content every 6 months? | |
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Re: ads? users? price?Not every six months that I noticed. Each month the movies change, the way the HBO channel has different movies each month. | |
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Re: ads? users? price?To add HBO go largely mirrors what is on demand/current for HBO that month/week with their own content always available. | |
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Agreed that would be the smartest move. Even a dollar or two more a month so they can be friendly to their biggest customers (cable providers) would be in order. There will always be thieves, but if they can remove some barriers to selling their product they will at least give choices to those who may have none today (international customers) or provide an easier choice for those in the US who steal their content today to lower their theft rates probably dramatically to mitigate that loss. More legal choices would surely make less illegal acquisitions and more revenue for them. | |
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@bigballer Plex and perhaps others let you upload video files to different place like Google Drive, and stream it from anywhere. There are also services that stream the videos you place on their service. | |
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Re: ads? users? price?Wait, what? Why would you upload to google drive and then stream from that to plex? Plex will stream to anything by itself to anywhere. You're duplicating efforts if you're putting something into google drive to stream elsewhere. | |
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to dudeman456
I know about Plex, I would prefer a more native Google app. I love google play music and their cloud, I would like the same approach with Google movies.... you know for home videos and stuff | |
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Re: ads? users? price?> We will work with our current partners. And, we will explore models with new partners. sounds like ISP's and Streaming box providers like Roku will be the ones reselling this unbound HBOGo service to their existing customer base, so that could be where the ads come from as a way for such resellers to subsidize their costs to HBO, and even lower them to end users. » www.businessweek.com/art ··· #r=lr-srImagine if Roku sold HBOGo cheaper than your ISP in a PC Browser - that could be a marketing bonus for Roku trying to sell other channels. | |
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| TitusMr Gradenko join:2004-06-26 |
to bigballer
How is there enough content (unseen / new) to offer it up for what I'm guessing will be at least $15-$20 a month? Having had Netflix for umpteen years - disk and streaming - I'm only behind the newest season of each show on disk or the season behind that. You could burn through a season of each show easily per week without bingeing. | |
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| ctggzg Premium Member join:2005-02-11 USA |
to bigballer
Many people will try to justify "sticking to piratebay" no matter what. | |
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Good for themWonder how much they will charge each month. | |
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It's about timeFinally a content provider that is traditionally "cable" is breaking the chains, and is looking at a stand alone service.
It Seems HBO sees the writing on the wall, and wants to get a jump on virgin ground.
I applaud the move, providing the service doesn't run as much or more than Netflix/Hulu. My price-point for HBO-Go would be no more than 5 bucks a month.
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Kuro
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2014-Oct-15 12:03 pm
Re: It's about timeI'd be more generous on the price and give it $10 a month. What I am worried about is if there will be different tiers of content/timing between the with cable and without groups. | |
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| | dvd536as Mr. Pink as they come Premium Member join:2001-04-27 Phoenix, AZ |
dvd536
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2014-Oct-15 12:11 pm
Re: It's about timeit'll be what it is on cable. $15-20 / mo dont forget GO will chew on your data caps! - now if it were MAX.HBO/go i think i could cut the cord[well at least from jan to july] need my cable when NFL season is live! | |
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AnonDude
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2014-Oct-15 4:02 pm
Re: It's about timesaid by dvd536:it'll be what it is on cable. $15-20 / mo dont forget GO will chew on your data caps! Any more than it does now? Because that's how I watch most of my HBO content. I very rarely watch the actual channel. By the way curently HBO Go uses about 1.5 GB per hour max. | |
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to Kuro
No way its going to be priced less than the channel price, so that means $15-$20.
They MAY have a lower priced option, but for say older content (3 years) like provided on Amazon prime, but no way you are getting current shows for pricing less than a cable provider.. | |
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Cats_Z
Anon
2014-Oct-15 1:07 pm
Re: It's about timeBased on their statement, I think this will only be available from your ISP in an HBO+Internet bundle. This will prevent people who want HBO on the cheap along side their pay-TV package from doing so, and will mask the "true" price of either service. | |
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It needs to be MORE $$$ (think ~$30) or the major cableco's will flip HBO the bird and tell them to have a nice life. They'll have no incentive to continue a relationship where they're getting screwed over. | |
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HBOgoing
Anon
2014-Oct-15 12:05 pm
If pricing and chosen content reasonable, will cause cable to lower $ on HBOIf the pricing and the chosen content of standalone streaming is reasonable, this could cause cable to lower price on HBO channel pkg on their systems. | |
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WhatNow Premium Member join:2009-05-06 Charlotte, NC |
WhatNow
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2014-Oct-15 12:07 pm
Beginning of the endThis may be the beginning of the end of traditional cable. If more companies on the free side start offering their packages like this it will not be long before traditional cable moves to a la carte. | |
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Kuro
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2014-Oct-15 12:08 pm
Cost, Tiers and the FutureIf they sell this as $10 a month to get HBOGo as it is now is something I would buy. If they add tiers that locks out content, release windows or ads based on if you are streaming alone or going through a cable sub has me really worried. Also wonder if this will effect studios licensing things to HBO for broadcast/streaming. | |
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| dvd536as Mr. Pink as they come Premium Member join:2001-04-27 Phoenix, AZ |
dvd536
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2014-Oct-15 12:17 pm
Re: Cost, Tiers and the Futureit will NEVER be $10/mo. its higher than that everywhere. ADS, i would never buy a hbo that was chewing at my caps with ads[why i dont have hulu+] netflix is too bitstarved to even be an option. | |
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| silbaco Premium Member join:2009-08-03 USA |
to Kuro
I don't think they would have any more ads than what they have on their current offerings.
I could see them requiring minimum term commitments to prevent people from just subscribing 1 month and watching an entire season of their favorite show. | |
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AnonDude to Kuro
Anon
2014-Oct-15 1:26 pm
to Kuro
it wil most likely be around $15 a month which is still a deal. | |
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AVonGauss
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2014-Oct-15 12:21 pm
Possible Typo?It may have taken several years of prodding
Typo?
It has taken nearly a decade of prodding
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AnonDude
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2014-Oct-15 4:02 pm
Re: Possible Typo?said by AVonGauss:It may have taken several years of prodding
Typo?
It has taken nearly a decade of prodding
:-)
On February 18, 2010, HBO launched HBO GO, That would be 4 1/2 years. | |
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Re: Possible Typo?Oh, we've been asking for a lot longer than HBO Go has been around... | |
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dvd536as Mr. Pink as they come Premium Member join:2001-04-27 Phoenix, AZ |
dvd536
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2014-Oct-15 12:21 pm
Cozy relationshipkick cable out of the bed. course HBO needs to beef up their bandwidth before they go standalone. how many hbo/go FAILS have i read about on here. | |
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price?I guess it will be priced $14.99 - $19.99. | |
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dscl
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2014-Oct-15 12:45 pm
Pay now or pay laterOnly problem I see is if a lot of people cut off their TV service, the cable companies will just raise broadband prices to make up the lost of people cutting TV.
At the end of the day they will not let shareholders down. | |
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| dvd536as Mr. Pink as they come Premium Member join:2001-04-27 Phoenix, AZ |
dvd536
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2014-Oct-15 8:16 pm
Re: Pay now or pay laterthey're already doing that and caps too to ensure to cord cutters its a wash. | |
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silbaco
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2014-Oct-15 12:47 pm
UptakeIf I had to take a guess, it will be that the uptake will be very low. Other than Netflix and Amazon Prime (which has other perks) the uptake of paid streaming services has been very low. That includes Hulu Plus, Crunchyroll, paid Youtube channels, and even Aereo had few customers.
At a price point of likely $15-20, most people will just continue to pirate or buy the DVD/Blu-ray. | |
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Os
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2014-Oct-15 1:08 pm
LaughablePeople should not be celebrating. Bills are only going to get worse.
You're not going to pay Netflix $8, HBO Go $15, and get everything on TV. People are foolish to believe that.
All this movement will do is ensure broadband meters, and that you pay multiple sources a fee to get the same content you got in one place before.
Everyone will pay more and get less. And this system will have even less regulation than the already limited regulation the system has. | |
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So if I get HBO through cableDoes this mean I have to pay extra for this? Stupid move really it should be included with my subscription. | |
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Kuro
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2014-Oct-15 2:32 pm
Re: So if I get HBO through cableIt's already included with your subscription. The reason this is news is that they are making it so you don't have to have cable to get it. | |
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Plant Getting StrongerThe broadband opportunity is getting quite a bit bigger, and the ability of the plant to deliver something robust is getting stronger; I'd argue that the plant has been capable for a number of years (especially FTTH and well-managed FTTN) if the distributor directly connects to each ISP or the ISP installs content distribution equipment in their data center. I have subscribed to HSI with my local cable system since August 2000 (when I joined DSL Reports). Since 2005ish, there have been no peak period performance issues. Over the years they have increased the basic package speed from 512Kbps to 100Mbps. There are still no peak period performance issues. | |
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TOPDAWG
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2014-Oct-15 2:37 pm
Internet prices will go up.If cable company's start to lose money cause of things like HBO GO all they will do is lower caps and rise the prices internet to make up for the loses. they will get their money and you'll be forced to pay it. | |
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jmn1207
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2014-Oct-15 2:46 pm
Comcast + RokuWell, if I can get HBO service on my Roku 3 as a stand alone channel, even if it cost $50/month, I'd be tempted to drop a cheaper version of HBO with Comcast just on principle. » www.facebook.com/pages/C ··· 81678759 | |
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Flyonthewall
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2014-Oct-15 2:52 pm
Canada?Will it be available in Canada, or did they sign some kind of long term agreement that needs to run its course? I'd be willing to stream this through Netflix no problems, but if it's US only, I can guarantee people will be trying to access it from abroad, which will do nothing to stem piracy. | |
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Flyonthewall
Anon
2014-Oct-16 5:19 pm
Re: Canada?Figures Bell would be involved. They're like Hyenas going after anything that might threaten them. Oh well, guess I've never be watching HBO live again, sure as heck not going to pay Bell for that. | |
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No pointIf this is priced like the cable version then there is no point. $9 gets you original content and a much larger movie selection on Netflix. If you want Game of Thrones, buy the BluRay. | |
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void_of_ligh
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2014-Oct-16 1:30 pm
Re: No pointThey don't release the bluray until a year after the series airs. When I had satellite, I subscribed to HBO for the 2-3 months GOT was on. I would gladly pay the 15 a month for this during the 2-3 months GOT airs. Offering it like Amazon prime does for $30 a season would be even better. | |
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Let's hope...they don't suffer with bandwidth issues a la early Netflix... Aka bad peering! Hopefully they get on the ball with that and go for direct connects! | |
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Vztechjoe
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2014-Oct-19 9:16 am
CapsIt started with you dopey cord cutters and now HBOs decision to offer standalone service will really get the ball rolling to a future in which ALL broadband providers will instill DATA CAPS and your Netflix And HBO GO will lose its value and we all suffer from a much worse internet experience. | |
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