HBO Asia’s CEO Jonathan Spink, movie director Stephen Fung and PCCW’s Managing Director of TV and New Media Janice Lee at the HBO GO launch.
Hong Kong – HBO Asia has announced the launch of HBO GO on Hong Kong’s now TV, available to the operator’s HBO subscribers starting February 28. HBO GO, a brand new broadband streaming service, enables subscribers to enjoy over 1,000 hours of HBO Original content on multiple devices including PCs, MACs, tablets and mobile devices (iOS, Android and Windows 7) at their convenience. The service includes new episodes of award-winning HBO Original programmes such as Game of Thrones, The Newsroom, True Blood, and Veep, 12 hours after being shown in the U.S.
Winner of the Best On-Demand Solution at IBC 2012 in Amsterdam, HBO GO subscribers will have unlimited access to current HBO Original series as well as popular past series like Band of Brothers, Sex and the City, The Sopranos and Rome plus HBO movies, documentaries, comedies, family content, entertainment specials and more. New features will be updated on HBO GO later this year, such as enabling content to be downloaded on top of content streaming.
“We are excited to be the first in Asia to offer HBO GO and our customers will soon be able to access HBO’s great movies and TV series anytime and anywhere. HBO GO complements our hugely popular now Player and other mobile apps for enjoying on-the-go content. With more than 1.4 million downloads of our app, users are able to enjoy more than 25 live channels and 1,500 hours of on-demand programming comprising around 600 titles of movies, TV dramas, sports, variety shows and news programmes,” said Janice Lee, PCCW’s Managing Director of TV and New Media.
