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05-25-11, 04:16 PM
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05-25-11, 07:25 PM
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Re: HBO Go
I can (and have) streamed it from my laptop to my TV over HDMI and that works. The problem is it's my work laptop. So first I need to boot up. That's really slow because my employer has encrypted our hard drives. Then I have to fool with the video settings to enable the second monitor. Then I have to fool with the sound card to output sound through the HDMI connection rather than the speakers. All told, that takes about 15-20 minutes I'd guess (though I've never timed it).
The iPhone app takes seconds. Turn on my phone, fire up the app. All done. The problem is that HBO Go doesn't support TV Out. I get sound on the TV, but the video plays on my phone. The TV just has a big HBO Go logo on the screen.
Hopefully they'll fix their app. If they did that, I could be up and playing content on my TV in under 1 minute vs. the 15-20 minutes going the laptop route. Netflix does it (and the quality appears to be on par with my PS3). I don't see why HBO can't. Or the Xfinity app for that matter. They do the same thing. Only send sound to the TV. Both apps access the same HBO content, neither will send video to the TV.
05-25-11, 07:48 PM
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Re: HBO Go
I just went through the same headache with the iPad hdmi adapter. Every other app uses it properly but HBO doesn't see the need since you're, in theory, a paid subscriber to a TV service and at home. You should just turn on the tv and use On Demand. It's a bullshit assumption. I was all prepared to get my sex on Sunday night at this chick's house after a double-header of GoT. Instead I just had to settle for sex and a small screen 
05-26-11, 08:45 AM
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I just went through the same headache with the iPad hdmi adapter. Every other app uses it properly but HBO doesn't see the need since you're, in theory, a paid subscriber to a TV service and at home. You should just turn on the tv and use On Demand. It's a bullshit assumption. I was all prepared to get my sex on Sunday night at this chick's house after a double-header of GoT. Instead I just had to settle for sex and a small screen
Has anyone tried HBO Go with an Apple TV? Can you push the video from an iPad right to the TV?
05-26-11, 11:27 AM
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05-26-11, 11:53 AM
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That's actually my problem. I can view HBO Go on either my laptop or my iPhone. What I want to do is view it on my 50" TV.
I can (and have) streamed it from my laptop to my TV over HDMI and that works. The problem is it's my work laptop. So first I need to boot up. That's really slow because my employer has encrypted our hard drives. Then I have to fool with the video settings to enable the second monitor. Then I have to fool with the sound card to output sound through the HDMI connection rather than the speakers. All told, that takes about 15-20 minutes I'd guess (though I've never timed it).
The iPhone app takes seconds. Turn on my phone, fire up the app. All done. The problem is that HBO Go doesn't support TV Out. I get sound on the TV, but the video plays on my phone. The TV just has a big HBO Go logo on the screen.
Hopefully they'll fix their app. If they did that, I could be up and playing content on my TV in under 1 minute vs. the 15-20 minutes going the laptop route. Netflix does it (and the quality appears to be on par with my PS3). I don't see why HBO can't. Or the Xfinity app for that matter. They do the same thing. Only send sound to the TV. Both apps access the same HBO content, neither will send video to the TV.
I can (and have) streamed it from my laptop to my TV over HDMI and that works. The problem is it's my work laptop. So first I need to boot up. That's really slow because my employer has encrypted our hard drives. Then I have to fool with the video settings to enable the second monitor. Then I have to fool with the sound card to output sound through the HDMI connection rather than the speakers. All told, that takes about 15-20 minutes I'd guess (though I've never timed it).
The iPhone app takes seconds. Turn on my phone, fire up the app. All done. The problem is that HBO Go doesn't support TV Out. I get sound on the TV, but the video plays on my phone. The TV just has a big HBO Go logo on the screen.
Hopefully they'll fix their app. If they did that, I could be up and playing content on my TV in under 1 minute vs. the 15-20 minutes going the laptop route. Netflix does it (and the quality appears to be on par with my PS3). I don't see why HBO can't. Or the Xfinity app for that matter. They do the same thing. Only send sound to the TV. Both apps access the same HBO content, neither will send video to the TV.
05-26-11, 12:40 PM
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05-26-11, 01:17 PM
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Re: HBO Go
Yeah, I was googling yesterday and it seems there's no way to send the content to the TV using a standard IOS device. I didn't look into jailbroken devices, that may be the only option.
05-27-11, 07:04 PM
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I just went through the same headache with the iPad hdmi adapter. Every other app uses it properly but HBO doesn't see the need since you're, in theory, a paid subscriber to a TV service and at home. You should just turn on the tv and use On Demand. It's a bullshit assumption. I was all prepared to get my sex on Sunday night at this chick's house after a double-header of GoT. Instead I just had to settle for sex and a small screen
06-26-11, 01:27 PM
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Re: HBO Go
So I sign up for HBO Go and I keep getting this error message: "This Go ID is playing video on another computer or device. Please stop the previous video stream or try again later."
I've only tried logging in from my phone so far.. Any ideas?
I've only tried logging in from my phone so far.. Any ideas?
06-26-11, 01:37 PM
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Did you log on to your PC/Sign up through there originally? If you so, you need to log out before you can sign on through another PC/Device.
06-26-11, 01:50 PM
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Nope, but I did just log onto the website to see if it work from there and same issue. I just spent about 20 minutes on the phone with directv to see if they could help and they couldn't figure it out either.
From doing a search online, I see I'm not the only who had issues with this happening before though.
From doing a search online, I see I'm not the only who had issues with this happening before though.
06-26-11, 04:45 PM
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I dont know if it's just the Android version, but damn this app is buggy as shit! Whenever I try to watch the next episode of Eastbound and Down, it completely closes out of the video and signs me out.
06-26-11, 05:56 PM
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Re: HBO Go
I don't understand this myself I have a lot of HBO channels for True Blood only through Comcast but I don't have xfinitiy? confused because I wanted to watch episode 2 of season 4 of true blood early since I won't be here to watch it!
06-26-11, 06:08 PM
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06-26-11, 06:47 PM
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Re: HBO Go
I had to validate my account by logging in through my cable provider. Once I did that, I could use that account anywhere. (I brought my iPad on a trip to the other end of the country and was still able to use HBOGo there, even when connected to a completely different cable provider.)
06-26-11, 07:00 PM
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06-27-11, 01:05 PM
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Re: HBO Go
Comcast renamed their Cable, Internet and Phone to "Xfinity" for some idiotic reason. You just go to HBO Go, click Xfinity and log into Comcast using your account credentials. If you have HBO on the account you'll get access.
