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Next Year You'll Be Able to Get HBO Online Without Cable
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Next Year You'll Be Able to Get HBO Online Without Cable
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In fantastic news for those of you living off your parents' HBO GO accounts, HBO's Chairman and CEO Richard Plepler promised the assembled crowd of suits at Time Warner Investor Day that HBO would be offering its streaming service à la carte starting next year.

Plepler noted that 10 million homes are broadband-only, having declined the opportunity to bundle despite frequently and loudly advertised financial incentives of doing so. "There are 80 million homes that do not have HBO," Plepler noted, after spending whole years of watching Game of Thrones be the most downloaded television show of all time every week.

It's worth noting that this inevitable announcement comes less than six months after a string of deals that left Amazon Prime with a substantial amount of HBO's back catalog of scripted programming, and only a few months after HBO declared Netflix a competitor outright.

The fact that this announcement was made for Time Warner's investors is, of course, no mistake. The internet throttling that is a natural consequence of Time Warner/Comcast's attacks on net neutrality, and its moves toward monopoly, would potentially affect any streaming service, making this a shrewd indicator of the continued confidence and arrogance behind Time Warner (HBO's parent company)'s political lobbying.

The entire statement is below:

you pay $7 a month and you have to watch commercials during the show too... boo-erns

I have apple tv and an Ipad and enough friends who haven't cut the cord yet that I can watch any channel on the Apple TV for free. I also have an antenna. Cutting the cord completely will only cost you local sports that are on comcast. And that can be fixed through investing in a slingbox and splitting costs with someone who has cable.

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Do you have Comcast, Spaulding? Call and bitch about the rate. You can get it down $40 per month. Sometimes more. I do it every time my contract expires. If the first person doesn't give in ask to talk to the supervisor. Say you're going to AT&T or Direct TV. Tell them the rate that those companies offered. Lie and say it's 70 cheaper per month for the same package. Say you want to talk to the person to cancel your service.

They'll give you a good deal eventually.