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I occasionally watch things with my friend who has access to HBO Go in our office. It's horrible. Adaptive bitrate streaming is slow to switch or nonexistent,

by 9999 15y ago

I occasionally watch things with my friend who has access to HBO Go in our office. It's horrible. Adaptive bitrate streaming is slow to switch or nonexistent, buffer times are too long, aspect ratios are often handled incorrectly in their player, and even figuring out how to log into the damned thing is an absolute nightmare. The Netflix user experience is vastly superior. edit: typo

larrik 15y ago
This is basically my answer to ndvivedi. In addition, I would add that I've had better quality from the Xfinity player, which also lets me view HBO content. I've found HBO Go quality to be a bit too poor, even on a great connection. Neither are nearly as good as Netflix, which I can force the bitrate using CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-S, let it buffer for a little while, then watch it straight through without issue. (Granted the secret hotkey is a little unfair, and HBO Go may very well have one too. That's the least important part, though)
- 9999 15y ago
  I didn't know about that hot key! I'm guessing it's command opt shift on + s on the mac, I'll have to give that a try, thanks!
  - larrik 15y ago
    CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-D also gets you into Diagnostics mode. I learned both of these from Day[9], of all people.