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HBO Site Offers Movies, TV Shows

The New York Times, Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:28 PM

HBO is on the verge of unveiling its Internet streaming service in a wider way. A Web site called HBO GO, subtitled "It's HBO on your computer," appeared online weeks ago, promising access to scores of TV episodes and films. But you mustbe an HBO subscriber through your cable or satellite company to get it. The Web site currently works in beta form for Comcast and Verizon FiOS subscribers.

The site is an outgrowth of the company's tests of HBO on Broadband, an effort to export the on-demand experience of television to the computer. HBO GO is part of a larger cable industry effort, TV Everywhere, that want to make content available on demand via the Internet. HBO, a unit of Time Warner that has about 35 million subscribers.

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