I’ll never understand why people get all butthurt over things like this. If you don’t like the manners in which HBO sells their content, don’t buy it.
He may not get good reception in his area. I’m in a major market and weather, time of year, and I’m sure a host of other factors play into which station my non-cable TVs can and cannot pull in.
Not everyone gets over-the-air broadcasts. I get a grand total of one fuzzy station over-the-air and it is PBS. I don’t have cable. Therefore, I couldn’t have watched it by simply turning on my TV (not that I wanted to).
As an owner of an Apple TV, I’m thrilled, and hope it gets opened up to all streaming devices without too much delay.
I’m also with Happy Fun Ball on the disappointment in trying to get OTA Network shows to stream. The offerings are spotty at best, frequently are Computer Only, and often give you a limited run, which makes picking up that new show you heard about pretty difficult.
Yeah this pissed me the hell off as well. I wanted to give HBO money. I really did. Although the price point is also a bit ridiculous. Netflix costs me $8, and that brings with it a sizable movie library. I’m basically watching HBO for one show. $15 a month is too much.
Even so, I was prepared to pay it, but I guess I can’t because apple.
I guess I’ll just have to continue watching HBO shows the way I’ve been watching them…
Maybe soon I’ll be able to give you money HBO, all I’m asking is for a fair avenue to do so.
They might be engaging in price skimming. Apple is notorious for engaging in price skimming and their customers are notorious for tolerating it. In three months they will want to capture the rest of the market and they will open it up to windows and android based customers.
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.”
But it’s 2015!
Eh, I think there’s just a general exhaustion with how many hoops one has to jump through to buy a lot of products these days. Ideally if someone makes something I want, I’d like to just give them money and get that thing. But everything seems wrapped up in six layers of subscriptions, loyalty programs, bundled services, exclusivity agreements, etc.
No, actually, in your OP, you didn’t mention HBO GO at all. In your OP, you said the bit that I quoted, that HBO streaming is only available on Apple TV, which is incorrect.
It’s true that the new HBO NOW service, which is aimed at cable-cutters, is Apple Only, but that’s just temporary. By the time most cable-cutters get out of their current cable contaracts, HBO NOW will be available on other devices. In the mean time, HBO GO streaming is available right now on non-Apple devices.
Why would I mention HBO GO when I’m not talking about HBO GO?
My exact words were: “So HBO Now, their new streaming service for cable cutters,…”
It’s very clear in the OP I’m talking about a streaming service for people who don’t have cable.
I suppose if you want to focus on my later sentence where I said: “So if ya’ want HBO streaming (For now anyway), ya’ gotta have an Apple product!..” you could pounce on that, but god damn if that isn’t being overly pedantic and showing little grasp of context.
Who’s “they?” Apple or HBO? Surely Apple doesn’t have much of a say what HBO does after their exclusive deal runs out.
It looks like HBO Now is not quite a direct consumer-to-HBO arrangement. You will have to go through Apple, Roku, Amazon, Google etc for billing.
https://gigaom.com/2015/03/09/hbo-now-price-availability-devices-apple-exclusive/
Dumb ass ignorant pitting.
HBO is only exclusive to Apple for 3 months. HBO does not have experience directly selling to customers but instead has always relied on cable companies for sales to customers. So they teamed up with Apple for a whole 3 months to gauge interest and get this new thing off the ground.
Seriously lame pitting as the least bit of looking around would have explained this to you.
I wonder if George R. R. Martin would be as good at planning an HBO/Apple board meeting as he is at weddings.
Boo fucking hoo, you can’t get the latest TV programming the way you want, so outrageous. HBO paid for the show, HBO gets to decide how to sell it to you.
You really want to say “Fuck you” to HBO and Apple? Don’t buy any of their shit, ever, and get off the fucking couch and go ride a bike or something.
Otherwise, pay your money and line up with the rest of the cattle to digest your 55-minute telescreen presentation.
LOL.
Who fucking pissed in your corn flakes? HBO says they’re coming out with a way to get their product w/o forking over an arm an a leg for a monthly cable bill, (seriously, can you get cable + HBO for less than $100?) only to make it a [del]tease[/del] flat out lie because you need to fork over an arm & a leg on a crapple product to get it. That’s bullshit fine print if ever there was bullshit fine print! Oh you want to see “Game of Thrones”? It’ll cost you hundreds of dollars over & above the $15/month that we quoted you. Waterboarding should only be a start for assholes who quote me a price I can’t actually get!
Oh, BTW, I only ran 5 miles tonite; is it okay for me to sit on the couch now?
Apple TVs are available for $69 including shipping.
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.