haha

It answered a current thread but I think it deserves a separate SHOUTOUT


This is the Rocky cuts Drago in the second round moment in the battle against Cable companies

Right now they're being celebrated but I bet they get bitched out when they announce rates.

Waddya mean it's not $5 a month?!?!???!?!!??!?!

Right now I think I get it from Comcast at like $17 a month. I'm thinking they will be charging somewhere in the range of $15-$20 per month. I would cancel it with comcast even if it meant shelling out a couple dollars extra. Screw comcast.

Im kinda surprised HBOGO hasnt done something to prevent people from sharing the passwords


If they did, this would be even bigger

My hope is that they will upgrade their content. They have as decent movie selection, but I think it could be a lot better. If they want to charge Netflix type rates, then they need that level of selection.

My hope is that they will upgrade their content. They have as decent movie selection, but I think it could be a lot better. If they want to charge Netflix type rates, then they need that level of selection.

The movies available on HBO GO are just what they are currently running on a month to month basis on the TV channel.

1) The Price You're Willing to Pay Is Almost Certainly Too Low. Every month, the cable companies tally up their tall piles of ~$80 monthly cable bills and send money to each of the networks in the bundle. These fees range from a few cents per-subscriber-per-month to a few dollars. HBO currently has 30 million premium subscribers. It gets a whopping $7 every month for each one. The easy arithmetic suggests that with 15 million subscribers paying $14, HBO could get the same revenue.

Ah, same revenue, but not the same profit. Weaned off big cable, HBO's costs would skyrocket. It would have to build its own streaming infrastructure. It would have to take over its own marketing. It would have to build a customer services team and a billing team. All of these costs are currently covered by the cable companies. But if you wanted to pay for HBO Go exclusively, you would have to pay more for the unbundled content plus these new costs.

HBO leans on cable, and cable leans on HBO. Just like Disneyland would lose money if it sold a la carte tickets to Splash Mountain for $20 without requiring $80 park admission, cable companies would lose money if HBO went for $20, alone, without basic cable package.


So what you've got is a mutually beneficial relationship between HBO and TV on the one hand ... and consumers who are screaming for HBO Go on the other hand. But as Tim Carmody put it perfectly: "HBO is never going to dynamite its multi-decade relationship with cable companies unless individual customers were willing to make a Godfather offer."*

My guess is $20-$25 a month. They'll sell the movies/documentaries and full catalog of TV Shows.

i bet it will be $14/month. which is too much for my tastes, but as long as they let you cum and go like netflix does then its not a bad deal. just buy it for a few months out of the year

Good call. I've given my HBOGO login info to 4 different people.

I'm guessing one of them is Drinky McMuffstuffins from Darkside's party?

and other CBS classics.

That would be so awesome, I pay the $6 a month just for that.

i was just gonna say in response to DB, i wouldn't pay to stream that