The app will be retired on July 31 while the HBO Go website will be shut down on Aug.
On Friday, AT&T announced that now that most cable users can upgrade to HBO Max it would be getting rid of the HBO Go service. Access to the app is tied into your main TV subscription, so if your TV subscription doesn't include HBO, you can't use HBO Go.
To use it you'll need to sign in to the app (or "authenticate") using the user name and password provided by your cable, satellite or live TV service.
Launched in 2010, HBO Go is a separate free app that's designed for cable, satellite and live TV streaming service subscribers who already get HBO's channel(s) as part of a TV subscription. Looking for more details? Here's the longer answer. If you're one of those millions of subscribers, you should be able to access Max without having to change anything with your HBO subscription. 'Shangela' Pierce opens up about her HBO show We're Here HBO Go users from a number of TV providers (including Verizon, Comcast, Altice, Charter, YouTube TV and AT&T's own TV services) are able to use the same username and password to log in to the new HBO Max app.
HBO Now users who pay via HBO Now, Google or Apple get an app update that transforms the HBO Now app into the HBO Max app. The good news is that, for millions of current HBO subscribers, the upgrade to Max happened automatically. If you want to stream all of HBO plus all the new Max goodness, you need the HBO Max app which came out on May 27.If you don't pay for HBO already through an existing TV provider, you can use the HBO Now app for streaming.If you pay for HBO already via your cable, satellite or cord-cutter live TV subscription, you can use the HBO Go app to stream those shows on other devices like your phone, tablet or another TV.So how else is it different from HBO Now and HBO Go, exactly? The short version Read more: HBO Max review: 10,000 hours of great TV and movies but still incomplete movies as well as new, exclusive films, including Zack Snyder's director's cut of Justice League coming in 2021. There are also originals such as Love Life, starring Anna Kendrick, and tons of Warner Bros. AT&T has billed HBO Max as a sort of supercharged version of HBO, giving you everything that service offers as well as lots of other shows and movies you can't watch on HBO: Friends, The Big Bang Theory and Rick and Morty. Max is HBO parent company AT&T's answer to Netflix, Disney Plus and other combatants in the current streaming wars. With three different HBO apps for different users and devices, the situation is even more confusing than before.įirst off, HBO Max is a separate service from the HBO you know already, although it costs the same at $14.99 a month. Meanwhile, millions more saw their HBO Now apps disappear to be replaced by HBO Max at the end of May. Now a new HBO app is available - HBO Max - but the other two aren't going away for millions of subscribers. Confusingly, they have similar names: HBO Go and HBO Now. If you're a fan of Game of Thrones - or Westworld, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, True Detective, Silicon Valley, The Sopranos, The Wire or Veep - you've previously had two major ways to (legally) stream episodes. HBO Max has reruns of Friends and lots of other stuff you can't watch on HBO Now or HBO Go.