Last year HBO created a site called HBO Go. This was set up as a site to watch video's on mobile devices, but can also be used online. You sign in by listing your service provider & logging on to it. This way it can be determined if you are, in fact, an HBO subscriber.
I've only used it once. Al their shows are on there, & a certain number of movies. Obviously not all, because that would be in the hundreds.
But there was nothing to do this afternoon, so I checked it out. Went through the movie listings, & decided to watch "Unstoppable". This is a Denzel Washington action film about a runaway train that always seems to start while I'm still at work. Well, other than a few freeze ups (sometimes my DVD's do that too), it worked fine.
I'm not saying this is perfect. A lot of people have complained about the buffering issues which relates to bandwith. But it is an alternative way of watching your favorite HBO programming. Although again, I notice that they have a limited number of movies available. Nothing like Netflix's thousands of movies. Not even comparable to Hulu, although lets be honest, Hulu's movies are the bottom of the barrel. I suspect HBO changes the movies available based on what they have been showing the last month. For instance, no Harry Potter. However every episode of The Sopranos is available, as is Deadwood.
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