It’s HBO.) You can subscribe to HBO through a cable company like Comcast or Charter, a virtual cable provider like Hulu with Live TV or YouTube TV, the satellite service DirecTV or, more recently, via a digital subscription on a channels store like the ones operated by Apple, Amazon, or Roku.

It lives on your TV set, and you can record shows and movies as they air or use your TV provider’s video on demand platform to catch up. ➽ HBO, of course, is HBO: the nearly 50-year-old pay service which you could only get via cable or satellite until about 10 years ago. The good news? It’s now much simpler - though still a tad confusing. Until a few months ago, HBO never made it easy to distinguish between its various products. What the is the difference between those services?įirst, it’s okay to be confused. I have heard of so many HBOs: Regular HBO, HBO Go, HBO Now. If you’ve got questions, we’ve got answers. People are understandably wondering whether they’ll need both HBO and HBO Max, how much more this new service will cost them, and why (until recently) there were so many different products with the name “HBO” attached. (This is particularly true if you’ve been missing Friends on Netflix, since the launch of Max means the Central Perk gang are back on streaming.) While HBO Max offers a ton of content - about 10,000 hours of movies and series, and growing - the buildup to its debut has led to some audience confusion.

This article was originally published in May and has been updated to reflect recent developments.Īnd then there was HBO Max: Following last year’s launches of Apple TV+ and Disney+, plus this spring’s Quibi rollout, AT&T-owned WarnerMedia has now jumped into the streaming wars with its vision of video utopia. It’s the only place you can watch Friends now.

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