# F U HBO and Apple! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 10, 2015, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-u-hbo-and-apple/714657 "2015-03-10T01:25:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-u-hbo-and-apple/714657/41 "2015-03-13T16:16:48Z")
One other option, with the savings from cutting the “cord”, you buy an Apple TV for $70, get your HBO NOW account and watch on your big TV. Then, in 3-4 months, when it opens up to Roku, sell your Apple TV for $50 on the used market, costing you a net $20, while saving you far more in Direct TV payments. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-u-hbo-and-apple/714657/42 "2015-03-13T16:25:52Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > One other option, with the savings from cutting the “cord”, you buy an Apple TV for $70, get your HBO NOW account and watch on your big TV. Then, in 3-4 months, when it opens up to Roku, sell your Apple TV for $50 on the used market, costing you a net $20, while saving you far more in Direct TV payments. Hmmmm…interesting. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-u-hbo-and-apple/714657/43 "2015-03-13T16:38:19Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > Apple TVs are available for $69 including shipping. I do not exist to be a source of money for Apple. ---
**Author:** ![CinnamonBabka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbce88/32.png) [@CinnamonBabka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CinnamonBabka)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-u-hbo-and-apple/714657/44 "2015-03-13T19:34:00Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > I do not exist to be a source of money for Apple. Then you don’t exist to be an HBO Now subscriber for the next three months. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-u-hbo-and-apple/714657/45 "2015-03-13T21:03:02Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Here’s my story, and why I’m also annoyed: > > I have Roku. I also have DirecTV. I’m _this_ close to cutting the cord when my DirecTV contract expires next month. I’m a Game of Thrones fan. So the ideal scenario would have been that HBO NOW was Roku-friendly: I gladly give HBO my $14/month for the duration of GoT, cut the cord with DirecTV, and life is good. > > Now, my choices are to keep DirecTV and add-on HBO; buy HBO NOW and watch GoT sitting at my computer; or find an HBO GO account I can steal, so I can watch GoT on my nice big living room flat-screen. Or wait for the DVD to come out. I don’t like any of those choices. My short-term plan, since I also have Roku, is to sign up for HBO NOW with my iPhone (helpfully provided by my employer) then plug my laptop into my HDTV to watch it online for the first three months. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-u-hbo-and-apple/714657/46 "2015-03-13T21:14:18Z")
> [@OneCentStamp](#): > > I think in five years, we’ll think of the era of competing streaming sticks (Chromecast/Roku/Fire Stick/Apple TV) that purposely refused to play nicely with each others’ programming as quaint, dated, and frankly stupid. It will be one of those things that was “so 2013.” And that’s really the issue. “Streaming exclusive” is going to be the new cable TV. And, of course, upgrades to the streaming devices every few years (IIRC, Roku 4K is coming out this year, Chromecast is reportedly getting a more powerful successor soon) ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-u-hbo-and-apple/714657/47 "2015-03-13T21:52:38Z")
> [@CinnamonBabka](#): > > Then you don’t exist to be an HBO Now subscriber for the next three months. Ha! ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-u-hbo-and-apple/714657/48 "2015-03-14T03:05:44Z")
> [@Tabby\_Cat](#): > > If anything, you should be mad at the content owners. The entire media landscape, and even legal landscape, is damaged because of them. :dubious: It’s the content owners’ fault, eh? The ones who offered tons of service over free TV for decades supported by commercials, until the internet made commercials obsolete and allowed people to steal content without paying? We’re living in a golden age of TV right now, but ever content owner is looking at a looming future in which their rapidly shrinking revenue stream is going to fall right off the table, meaning there won’t be enough income to produce the type of quality programs that, at the moment, are abundant. Instead of blaming the content owners for the rapidly shrinking media landscape, what you should be concerned with, as a consumer of content, is making sure that they be able to maintain a revenue stream that is going to make it worthwhile to continue producing professional content, rather than turning everything into YouTube. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-u-hbo-and-apple/714657/49 "2015-03-14T03:24:19Z")
Hey, there’s some great stuff on YouTube. Today I saw a guy get knocked over by a giraffe. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-u-hbo-and-apple/714657/50 "2015-03-14T05:15:13Z")
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