Time Warner Cable Close To HBO Go Deal

COMMENTS (27)

• Since Time Warner owns HBO, how can it possibly take 6 months to negotiate with yourself?

  Comment by anon — Tuesday September 27, 2011 @ 9:49pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Time Warner the media conglomerate and Time Warner Cable are two completely separate businesses.

    Comment by MJL — Tuesday September 27, 2011 @ 10:17pm PDT  Reply to this post

    • doesn’t matter. the share the same name and public perception. they of all ppl would know that.

      Comment by Anonymous — Monday October 31, 2011 @ 3:42pm PDT  Reply to this post

• TWC employees received a company email last week saying it was a done deal and would be launch soon. Employees will get the service 1st as a sort of beta test for the service

  Comment by joe jackson — Tuesday September 27, 2011 @ 9:57pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • I am really tired of the whole thing. I always viewed the reluctance of TWC and Cablevision to offer this service was based on the realization that it is only a matter of time before consumers will form a direct paid relationship between, HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, and other cables premium channels.

    This will eventually cut cable companies out of this revenue stream. It is inevitable, and happenning already.

    At this point I do not knopw what the truth is, but I will be really surprised if Time Warner Cable really offers HBO Go, or anything like it ever.

    Comment by Ira — Tuesday October 11, 2011 @ 8:42am PDT  Reply to this post

• This would be great. Many cable providers already offer the service. Too bad older iphones don’t run the HBO Go app.

  Comment by Mike — Tuesday September 27, 2011 @ 10:00pm PDT  Reply to this post

• You’re like the idiots who rate the app low because you think Time Warner Cable is a sister company to HBO. Google.com that foolishness and educate yourself!

  They’re not related anymore. It happened a while ago.

  Comment by James — Tuesday September 27, 2011 @ 10:17pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • This is not entirely true, TW is still the majority stock holder in TWC.

    Do more research before calling others an idiot.

    Comment by Luke — Wednesday September 28, 2011 @ 1:06am PDT  Reply to this post

• This will be such a huge announcement. Pathetic that it took this long. Time warner sucks. HBO will eventually offer HBO to go directly to consumers for a monthly fee (time warner will make sure it doesn’t happen until they have no choice but to let HBO do it) sooner rather than later Time Warner will end up where it’s headed: an internet service provider. Remember ma bell and land lines.

  Comment by Bain — Tuesday September 27, 2011 @ 10:22pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Time Warner doesn’t suck. I love that my DVR randomly records a blank screen instead of my scheduled program. Who wouldn’t love that.

    Comment by Jake — Wednesday September 28, 2011 @ 3:06am PDT  Reply to this post

• I hate TWC , but from friends that have cablevision it sounds better. They are just backwards & slow as sh*t to do anything

  Comment by joe — Wednesday September 28, 2011 @ 3:53am PDT  Reply to this post

• This is absolutely great news.

  Now if only Time Warner will cough up the money for NFL Network and NFL Redzone I could finally stop leaving my apartment.

  Comment by BC — Wednesday September 28, 2011 @ 7:22am PDT  Reply to this post

• Time Warner Cable is awful. The offer almost nothing and nickel and dime you for what they do. Not to mention the terrible service and PQ quality you get. I had so many channels pixelating and just not transmitting for days on end. You call them up and all they can do is send someone later in the week to check it out. In the meantime the problem ‘fixes’ itself. Thankfully I was able to dump them this year for AT&T U-Verse.

  Comment by brad — Wednesday September 28, 2011 @ 8:44am PDT  Reply to this post

• So, this is only 6 months AFTER the rest of the world gets it, even though TW cable is a subsidiary of TW? I still think they were pushing people to their ipad app. As if anyone would run right out and spend $500 minimum just to talk with their cable services? And the app doesn’t work with anything but an ipad. No ipod touch, no android.

  And cablevision is just a bunch of bean counters. After acquiring NBC and its cable channels they canceled one of the consistent ratings producers ‘Eureka’ on the Syfy channel. Too expensive, they said. If cablevision had owned the Syfy channel from the get-go, it probably would never had been made. This would have been a shame. How many shows are there which the whole family can watch, genuinely because they all want to watch the show (not because they are being ‘nice’ to the family, or lost a coin toss). My mother would have said ‘penny wise and pound foolish’. The latter day translation is that they are cutting out something which will bring returns in the long run, in order to cut spending in the present.

  Comment by Samm — Sunday October 9, 2011 @ 7:53pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Still waiting

  Comment by DB — Saturday October 15, 2011 @ 9:18am PDT  Reply to this post

• Still waiting.

  Comment by foreignerfan — Monday October 17, 2011 @ 4:58pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Still Fucking waiting

  Comment by Jordan W — Friday October 21, 2011 @ 10:35am PDT  Reply to this post

• And still f-n waiting……..

  Comment by Adam — Saturday October 22, 2011 @ 10:47am PDT  Reply to this post

• Still waiting. In LA of all places. Not like this is a big town or anything. Oh, and fuck time Warner.

  Comment by Mark — Sunday October 23, 2011 @ 10:44pm PDT  Reply to this post

• A month later and I’m still waiting…

  Comment by Danielle — Friday October 28, 2011 @ 7:43am PDT  Reply to this post

• TWX…the leader in fast an innovative operations.

  Comment by Anonymous — Monday October 31, 2011 @ 3:41pm PDT  Reply to this post

• This was a hoax right? It’s never happening.

  Comment by treeboy — Monday October 31, 2011 @ 3:41pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Still waiting. My DVR box is from like 10 years ago too. Fuck time warner…

  Comment by bonnie — Wednesday November 2, 2011 @ 8:57pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I too despise time warner. Comcast / Xfinity rules.

  Comment by Alexis — Sunday November 6, 2011 @ 1:25pm PST  Reply to this post

• Still waiting. So frustrating to see the download on my Roku box, but can’t do anything about it. Was this a rumor?

  Comment by medusa — Sunday November 13, 2011 @ 2:01pm PST  Reply to this post

• Thinking of opening a complaint with the FCC and any other organization that will listen to a false advertising claim against TWC. I’m sick of seeing the HBOGO ads on TWC when in fact it’s not available to their subscribers.

  Comment by Still Waiting — Tuesday November 15, 2011 @ 7:10pm PST  Reply to this post

• The bottom line is that cable providers are monopolies that are broken down by city, area code and state. Since they have their own assigned areas they don’t have the need to compete with one another.If costumers could choose between different cable companies within their area these companies would do what it takes to keep their costumers happy by providing as their name implies the wanted services…

  Comment by tiredjack — Wednesday November 16, 2011 @ 5:01pm PST  Reply to this post