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mfcorey1

(11,001 posts) Fri Oct 17, 2014, 07:57 AM Oct 2014

HBO to Launch Stand-Alone Streaming Service

HBO is cutting the cord, threatening the traditional cable-TV bundle of channels by offering its popular service directly to viewers over the Internet.

Time Warner Inc. on Wednesday said HBO would launch the stand-alone, online streaming version of its service next year.

It will primarily target the 10 million people in the U.S. who have an Internet connection but no pay-television service, said Richard Plepler, chairman and chief executive of HBO, during a Time Warner investor presentation in New York.

http://online.wsj.com/articles/hbo-to-launch-standalone-streaming-service-1413385733

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HBO to Launch Stand-Alone Streaming Service (Original Post) mfcorey1 Oct 2014 OP

And you think a lot of people watch Game of Thrones NOW... Scootaloo Oct 2014 #1

Good idea Ron Obvious Oct 2014 #2

Cable television is obsolete. hunter Oct 2014 #3

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)

1. And you think a lot of people watch Game of Thrones NOW...

Reply to mfcorey1 (Original post)

Fri Oct 17, 2014, 08:22 AM

Oct 2014

Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)

2. Good idea

Reply to mfcorey1 (Original post)

Fri Oct 17, 2014, 10:30 AM

Oct 2014

A la carte is the way to go. I've disconnected Dish and cable some years ago, but would pay for specific channels (live sports mostly) over the net.

Never going back to dish/cable.

hunter

(38,311 posts)

3. Cable television is obsolete.

Reply to mfcorey1 (Original post)

Fri Oct 17, 2014, 11:48 AM

Oct 2014

That's why these corporations buy politicians to stifle innovation and protect their existing business models.

But people are quitting cable television anyways.

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