HBO and Time Warner have repeatedly stated that you shouldn't hold your breath if you're waiting for a standalone HBO streaming option that doesn't require you have a traditional cable and HBO subscription. As the company has stated previously, they simply don't see the numbers working in their favor, despite the massive piracy seen of HBO shows like "Game of Thrones."

Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Communicopia conference this week, Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes acknowledged that Time Warner might be "open" to bundling HBO Go with a broadband service.

Bewkes however then immediately proceeded to shoot down every television evolution consumers have been clamoring for, from alternative video efforts from the likes of Sony, Intel, Apple and Google to lower rates. Bewkes also doubted the ability of the Internet to handle video for good measure.

"I’m a little skeptical about whether that's really going to happen and be done in a healthy way that can take the traffic that used to be on the interstate, which is what you are doing on your TV, and move it over," Bewkes told conference attendees. He also proclaimed that the rise in over the top video would occur simultaneously with a shift to metered broadband and higher broadband rates for consumers.

Also pooh pooh'd was the idea of cable TV needing to lower rates to avoid being more susceptible to Internet video, something analysts have been proclaiming for several years now. Instead, the CEO used a cup of Starbucks coffee as a relative example of cable's value.

"You paid more for that than you paid for the best TV for your entire family on God knows how many devices. It’s $3 a day. You don’t think that’s a deal?" Bewkes also took time out to ridicule cable operators complaining of soaring programming and retransmission fee rates. "If you look at their earnings, you know that they have a healthy business," proclaimed the CEO.