HBO to offer standalone streaming

InTenSity wrote:Awesome. I would cancel the service with Comcast just to drop Comcast revenue.

Jake from State Farm wrote:

You're not going to be alone in that decision. Cable companies are going to lose a nice chunk of change over this.

InTenSity wrote:
My guess is that the standalone is going to be $20 a month, since I think its $15 a month through cable, they will do that to protect their cable subs. @$20 there will probably still be widespread pirating since Netflix is <$10 and would technically offer more. Amazon is already offering a lot of older shows as part of Prime. I think the HBO price point needs to be around $10 a month in order to really gain interest, but they will protect themselves.

MiamiSpartan wrote:
Yeah, I would think that they would charge more in order to give people incentive to buy it through the cable company, otherwise the cable companies will go ape shit and they could lose those huge subscriber bases (it is still a pretty small percentage of the population that would want to go to streaming). Also, I wouldn't be shocked if the cable companies get a portion of the fee, especially if it's the same address as a former HBO subscriber through the cable companies, or any Comcast, Time Warner, DirecTV subscriber that signs up for this, whether they previously had HBO or not.

MiamiSpartan wrote:
Yeah, I would think that they would charge more in order to give people incentive to buy it through the cable company, otherwise the cable companies will go ape shit and they could lose those huge subscriber bases (it is still a pretty small percentage of the population that would want to go to streaming).  Also, I wouldn't be shocked if the cable companies get a portion of the fee, especially if it's the same address as a former HBO subscriber through the cable companies, or any Comcast, Time Warner, DirecTV subscriber that signs up for this, whether they previously had HBO or not.

CBS has unveiled a new subscription service for consumers who simply wish to stream their favorite shows via the Internet, without the need to have an active cable subscription. The broadcaster's announcement follows HBO revealing similar plans. The CBS All Access service will set viewers back $5.99 a month.

A total of 14 US markets will be supported at launch, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas and San Francisco. For those who reside outside the initial 14 markets will be restricted to viewing prime time shows a day after being shown, as well as access to more than 5,000 episodes of popular series, including Star Trek, MacGyver and others.

Unfortunately, it seems NFL games will not be shown on the new service. CBS officials note they're working to partner with NFL to provide said coverage online, and that consumers can already take advantage of other live sports already available for streaming.