Best way to get HBO?

Look at something like a Roku, Amazon Fire TV and the like. $30 - $100, depending on what device you get, Most of them can use WiFi to connect to your router, but if I had a choice - I would use ethernet to connect to my router. Just make sure that the device you get has an HBO GO app available. These devices plug into an HDMI port, so either your TV needs a free HDMI port, or you need an HDMI switch.

 

Correction - the standalone is HBO Now

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Which devices work with HBO NOW?

 

If you want to stream from a BluRay player - it has to have the HBO Now app available....

Or you can wait until it is available on DVD/BluRay....

 

wouldn't buying a Blu-ray player be making a purchase to get the show you want? just like you said you weren't going to do?
Firestick (if you have amazon prime) or roku would be cheaper.

 

HBO delayed releasing those 7 episodes for an extra year because they knew a lot of people would be like the OP. Word of warning, they will be a GoT Prequel series that will be launched as soon as GoT is over. I have heard that it is the same big budget production show set in the days of the Targaryen king and a teenage Ned Stark, other rumors say it is set thousands of years in the past at time of the creation of the White Walkers. If you like GoT I suggest looking at a more permanent fix for your problem.

 

And unless that Bluray player is powered by a major embedded OS where developers actively update apps via an app store instead of a proprietary manufacturer specific OS, it's not really a long term solution if you expect it to continue to have access to HBO Now several years from now. i.e. my Bluray players lost access to YouTube during the great purge/API change, lost access to Hulu and Vudu last year, and even for Netflix it's stuck on the old UI that doesn't support things like up/down ratings or interactive content like Bandersnatch.

 

No arguement from me - if he wants to stream , a more mainstream solution is to be preferred. If he doesn't want to stream, then it's time to get a new provider...

 

Buy a Fire Stick or Roku stick. Sometimes on sale for $20-$30. Plug it into one of your spare HDMI connections, do the set up and go to HBO and get it. The nice thing about the Firestick is you get HBO on Demand as well as all of their channels live in HD too. The Roku just has the On Demand mode. I have both the Roku and Fire Stick and get HBO on both for no extra cost, just the $14.95 a month.

 

Amazon Fire TV / Fire TV sticks work just fine on a "non-Smart TV" - but they do need access to the internet (as stated earlier, usually WiFi) and access to an HDMI port on your TV (probably what you're using for your Hopper / Joey). They also need access to power.

 

They didn’t actually delay releasing it, it took that long to film, they where still filming last summer... and takes a lot of post production. They had a late start on getting going with the filming in the first place because it was complex to pre produce, and I believe they wanted a certain time of year for some parts.

And the thousands years ago is the right one, since that comes from the actual show runners for the new series. Wouldn’t call that a rumor. What the other 4 possible spin offs are is up in the air if they will even get made. Pretty sure are definite no gos.

Not sure what you mean by launched either, as they haven’t even started filming or have just started, for the new series, so it’ll be a year or more before it premieres.

 

Well if HBO really took two years to film 7 episodes of a series with cast, set designs, CGI generation software ready to go and the story mostly written they must have been on a go slow.

If this is true then HBO is going to have a lot of subscribers also taking a one year break. I will wait and see what they say after the finally of GoT.