If there was ever a time you wanted to watch content they had, you would find out I guess. I found out when my partner wanted to watch Game of Thrones newer series. We dont pay for cable so one of those apps we couldn’t access as it was specifically for users who had cable and paid for the HBO channels there. The other was one you could pay 14.99 a month or some shit like Netflix to have access to their content.
Then I think they got bought or something and combined the 2 slowly into HBO Max… they wondered if just calling it Max was better, and probably found out it wasn’t so they changed it back.
Akshually, they were different front ends accessing essentially the same library of content. Go was included with your cable subscription, and Now was a streaming license you could purchase separately. They weren’t really different products, just different payment options.
Eh, with that logic you could argue that all music streaming services are the same product with different front ends. Which, in a way, is kinda true…
Go existed for a few years before Now was released, and they were separate websites/apps. I’d say they qualify as different products. I would be interested to know if they shared any backend tech though. Would probably save a pretty penny if they shared a CDN.
Yeah, the websites/apps were the different front ends. But you were still streaming HBO. The movies and shows were the same, and if you had one it would be redundant to get the other. Max was introduced as an expanded library for Now, but eventually replaced both and Go was discontinued.
Streaming apps have their own catalogs and backends (although most of them license “all the music”).
HBO Go and HBO Now were different products though
How would one even know this with all the name changes?
If there was ever a time you wanted to watch content they had, you would find out I guess. I found out when my partner wanted to watch Game of Thrones newer series. We dont pay for cable so one of those apps we couldn’t access as it was specifically for users who had cable and paid for the HBO channels there. The other was one you could pay 14.99 a month or some shit like Netflix to have access to their content.
Then I think they got bought or something and combined the 2 slowly into HBO Max… they wondered if just calling it Max was better, and probably found out it wasn’t so they changed it back.
Akshually, they were different front ends accessing essentially the same library of content. Go was included with your cable subscription, and Now was a streaming license you could purchase separately. They weren’t really different products, just different payment options.
Eh, with that logic you could argue that all music streaming services are the same product with different front ends. Which, in a way, is kinda true…
Go existed for a few years before Now was released, and they were separate websites/apps. I’d say they qualify as different products. I would be interested to know if they shared any backend tech though. Would probably save a pretty penny if they shared a CDN.
Did both services have separate content catalogues?
Yeah, the websites/apps were the different front ends. But you were still streaming HBO. The movies and shows were the same, and if you had one it would be redundant to get the other. Max was introduced as an expanded library for Now, but eventually replaced both and Go was discontinued.
Streaming apps have their own catalogs and backends (although most of them license “all the music”).