Apparently watching shows on your computer or Internet-enabled television is a fad. Idiot. I don't know about you, but paying $50 a month for cable + $15 a month for HBO isn't worth it for maybe four episodes per month. There are just no other shows I would watch (I don't watch television at all).
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HBO co-president Eric Kessler has said he thinks the move away from traditional television to an internet-based model is just a fad that will pass – a “temporary phenomenon” tied to the down economy.
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Pretty much. If I could pay for it, I would.
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HBO Has Only Itself To Blame For Record 'Game Of Thrones' Piracy – Forbes
HBO's 'Game of Thrones' is on its way to becoming the number one pirated show in America. Of course, they have only themselves to blame for this.
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A fad… wow, how detached from reality are they?
And computers were only going to be good for housewives to collect recipes, remember?
I completely agree, if I could pay for an internet-based subscription for these shows, I would.
When you can't attack based on your enemies' weakness, throw words like "fad" at them.
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If I could subscribe to HBO GO without the cable bill I would. They would take a chunk out of the piracy I bet.
Wishful thinking or he has surrounded himself with synchophants. The emperor has no clothes.
I agree. HBO is not worth the money. At some point the idea of not being able to watch any episode of any show that has been released to date, anywhere you want, on any device you own, will seem as quaint as sitting at the computer because that's where you had a telephone jack for your modem.
I dropped HBO and Showtime years ago because it just was not worth it to pay their fees for 1 or 2 shows I wanted to see. I don't watch pirated shows but I wait for them to be available on Netflix. Just seems silly for them to think this little internet thing is going to go away.
I am happy to pay for content and quality distribution. Internet is revolutionary in the sense it democratized both content creation and distribution and in the process took the fat profits away from monopolies of networks and studios. It also opened intelligent newer forms of engagement such as social networks. I would rather spend my entertainment hours browsing google plus rather than one way stream of sitcoms.
Kessler is living in the past.
There are only a few cable shows worth the price Dexter, Game of Thrones. But to pay for cable then pay for HBO and or Showtime just to only see those 2 shows isn't worth it. I'd gladly pay just to watch those show.
If copyright law was reformed, they'd have to change their stance. It's the bone-headed stupidity reinforced by compliant law enforcement agencies and a bought government that allows this to continue.
They ought to be done for anti-competitive practices.
I dropped cable subscription long ago. If I'm sufficiently interested in something, I'll look up a few episodes online (assuming I can find any subtitled ones) or try to rent a DVD. If I like it, I'll purchase the DVD's.
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I must be the only weird one that loves watching shows on my big screen tv and hate watching them on my computer… Unless there is some secret people are holding out on me!
+Samantha Poliseno if you have a new enough TV you can hook your computer to it using an HDMI cable and see all your content on the big screen.
I bought a projector about 6 months ago. It's hooked up to my computer and I watch Internet shows exclusively. When I am at a friends house with cable it feels like something from 10 years ago.
I prefer to own DVD's whether I purchase or burn them. That way I know I have them, and my access to them won't suddenly go away…
+Samantha Poliseno you are not the only one – love my HDTV and watching certain things there with the stereo on and cranked is a great alternative to the movies.
+Lynette Young – come to the dark side – get a Roku :-p
On demand, no commercials. All you need is a Roku and an antennae.
Hi, I'm HBO and I'm a fad.
It is Obama's fault. If the economy was better it was not happening that.
Well Al Gore did invent it.
Eight years of Busch can't be fixed with four years of Obama. Be happy your out of one war.
I stubbed my toe yesterday. Obama's fault, clearly. And spell checkers are failing left and right. I'll put that one at Obama's feet, too.
Well, +Cindy Brown – When you're Right , you're Right .
+George Coelho I really want to pick on you for blaming Obama for something completely unrelated to the office of the presidency, but I honestly can't decipher your awful sentence structure enough to figure out what you're trying to say.
In case the entry gets edited, the sentence to which I'm referring is "If the economy was better it was not happening that."
Don't worry, Dan. I managed to pick on him. Unless it went sailing right over his toe.
+Dan Raies In which other language do you prefer me to speak? i only speak english, spanish, portuguese, latin, and i am learning beginner german.
+Dan Raies anyway there is not wrong with the structure, but with the meaning, and that is not an error, it is an ironic style to mock the lack of the possibility.
I agree with +Lynette Young. "Idiot"
Name calling is hardly called for.
Hi, I'm HBO and this is COMPLETELY about O'Bam!A….get over yourselves people; lets talk about this whole "fad" thing.
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Just sayin…..
+George Coelho, I'm glad you speak so many languages. But trust me on this one when I tell you that you're being just about incomprehensible here.
Kessler has to make the cable companies happy due to the current business model. I wonder if he really believes his own fad statement.
Woah, where do you live where it's $50 a month + $15 for HBO? Can I move there? That's half of what I was paying before I chucked it.
But, I don't watch Game of Thrones. However, when True Blood starts, if I can't find a way to legally watch it, there will be problems.
And that's why HBO doesn't get any money direct from me. I'm content to wait to see shows on Netflix someday. A lot more people are dropping cable. I dropped it about 4-5 years ago when I realized the cost to value was more than simply buying dvd's outright of the shows I liked.
When you cannot innovate, create doubt. Did you not get the memo?
I turned off my Comcast cable subscription 2 years now.
There is an Internet subscription service, it is called iTunes. $3 for an hours viewing. I am happy with that.
Amen sister
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I don't watch TV shows either. Football and cartoons are the only reason we have a television in our house.
What an ass, understand rather then dismiss….it will work out better for you in the end.
+Sabrina Benton I think my boyfriend has tried to do that before. We also have wireless through our TV and tried to watch shows through the internet through the wireless on our TV it was too slow.
We do Netflix streaming through both our TV and our Tivo – and it works great – you have to have a decent router to really make it work well. I will confess though that I use the Netflix streaming far more at the gym though. There's open wifi at my gym and while on the treadmill I stream TV shows I'm catching up on to my iPod Touch. So taking this back to the original post – I think the guy is living in a fantasy world. When I can stream shows I like AT MY FREAKIN' GYM – and I am willing to pay for that privelege – he has completely lost his mind that this is a fad.
+Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal covered this issue nicely here: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones
Apparently HBO co-president Eric Kessler did not pay attention to the print media moguls who made simarly shortsighted prognostications only to be caught with their knickers down when they lost all of their revenue to the Internet. So, I gather as long as he is one of the ones in charge at HBO, they are doomed to make the same mistake.
Netflix is better cause you have every show made in 2010 and before for 8 dollars a month. It is online however but that is the one bad thing about cause you can get it on the blue-ray,will, and x-box 360.You get to watch as many movies you want you should check it out
I've yet to subscribe to Netflix because up in Canada the programs they offer are apparently different than what's available in the US. This kind of protectionism is another hurdle in this whole battle against privacy.
It's important to note that yes, the Internet flies in the face of what most content owners want. However, they're trying very damn hard to destroy/break the internet as we know it with lots of lobbying money in many different countries.
I don't know if it will work, but they don't need to fix the internet for their interests if they can break it.