Comments on: Dear HBO: Tell Cable to Suck It. http://www.josephthibault.com/2009/dear-hbo/ Ready, set, Joe. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:14:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joe http://www.josephthibault.com/2009/dear-hbo/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Joe Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:36:11 +0000 http://www.josephthibault.com/?p=350#comment-29 That's a nice little hack...I'm going to try this as a trial. But, I don't think they have all of the programming (like The Pacific) available in the iTunes store. I think what we both would like is carte blanche to HBO programming (not just a piece meal approach through a 3rd party). Also, I would rather give the money directly to HBO compared to giving it to Steve Jobs first. I always envision him swimming in money like Scrooge McDuck. That’s a nice little hack…I’m going to try this as a trial. But, I don’t think they have all of the programming (like The Pacific) available in the iTunes store.

I think what we both would like is carte blanche to HBO programming (not just a piece meal approach through a 3rd party).

Also, I would rather give the money directly to HBO compared to giving it to Steve Jobs first. I always envision him swimming in money like Scrooge McDuck.

]]> By: rymac http://www.josephthibault.com/2009/dear-hbo/comment-page-1/#comment-28 rymac Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:20:05 +0000 http://www.josephthibault.com/?p=350#comment-28 they are getting close. if you buy a season of entourage (or any other series) on itunes, it downloads it automatically as soon as its up. so basically, just buy all the seasons of shows you like, get an apple tv, bobs your uncle, you get what you pay for. the only downside is its not actually officially live yet. you have to wait a day or something before it becomes avaiable. otherwise there would be no benefit to keeping cable. oh, and this eliminated any need to pay and extra $14/mont for DVR as you have all the episodes forever stored on hard drive. not to mention you can drop them onto your ipod and take the episodes with you, or just download them right to the ipod wirelessly from anywhere. the missing link is the real time airings of new episodes. they are getting close. if you buy a season of entourage (or any other series) on itunes, it downloads it automatically as soon as its up. so basically, just buy all the seasons of shows you like, get an apple tv, bobs your uncle, you get what you pay for. the only downside is its not actually officially live yet. you have to wait a day or something before it becomes avaiable. otherwise there would be no benefit to keeping cable. oh, and this eliminated any need to pay and extra $14/mont for DVR as you have all the episodes forever stored on hard drive. not to mention you can drop them onto your ipod and take the episodes with you, or just download them right to the ipod wirelessly from anywhere. the missing link is the real time airings of new episodes.

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