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Roku has the HBO Go app on it, but will probably fail you too. Subscribers log in to HBO Go with their username and password from their cable subscription, not
by sudonim 14y ago
Roku has the HBO Go app on it, but will probably fail you too.
Subscribers log in to HBO Go with their username and password from their cable subscription, not something they get from HBO.
Time Warner Cable blocks using the Roku with HBO Go. When you try to authenticate the device, they slap you on the wrist and say no.
You can however, airplay from the HBO website in Mountain Lion, but I find things get a little out of sync.
- sabat 14y agoComcast isn't participating in this, so no HBO on Roku for Comcast subscribers.
- koenigdavidmj 14y agoSo Comcast and Time Warner, quite possibly the two largest cable companies in the US, both ban Roku users from using HBO Go. Who can use it then?
- mikeryan 14y agoTime Warner can, and pretty much all next largest operators after Comcast Cox, Charter, Insight, BrightHouse, ATT, Verizon. Comcast works on Xbox, not sure why not the Roku yet.
- rhizome 14y agoDSL users, which is why the cable commercials (around here) always take pains to say "slow DSL" (both words, always) in their commercials. It's not because DSL is slower (it really isn't, in the wild), but because it's a true competitive threat. Aside from the slight speed differential, cable companies are a (willingly) captured industry, so you will see industry-driven content restrictions like these from them that you don't see on DSL.
- ricardobeat 14y agoWhy do american regulatory agencies put up with this crap? One provider shouldn't interfere with another (much less block it).
- rhizome 14y agoThe regulatory agencies are staffed almost entirely with people who used to work at the networks. They're in on it.
- sudonim 14y agoWhoops - as of May 2012, TWC no longer blocks the Roku on HBO Go. Last time I tried was in April I think.