Talk:HBO Now

Media Low‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Media, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Media on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.MediaWikipedia:WikiProject MediaTemplate:WikiProject MediaMedia articles

Low

This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

WikiProject Media To-do List:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Content (media and publishing)
Verify : Multimedia, Alternative media, Alternative newspaper

Other :

Answer requests for comments

Article is filled with jargon. It stinks.

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and not a trade magazine.

This article needs to be entirely rewritten for the ordinary reader to remove the huge quantities of jargon that appear in the article.

Jargon that is totally unnecessary to the content of the article.Daqu (talk) 13:03, 20 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You say "jargon" yet do not provide specific examples. ViperSnake151 Talk 15:42, 20 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

More about nuts-and-bolts

This is a very well-written article, and I appreciate very much the work of the various authors. Still, as an example, I came to this page to find out if HBO Now on the desktop requires Flash. (It does. Version 17 or higher.) And I did not find the answer on this page. So, I guess I agree that the page could be made more helpful for the average person interested in HBO Now, such as the system requirements. You'd think HBO would be better about providing this sort of thing, but it's amazing how often Wikipedia does a better job of presenting useful information about products and services than do the web sites of the companies selling those products and services!

100.36.25.14 (talk) 02:09, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 18 August 2020

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved (non-admin closure) ~ Amkgp 💬 10:05, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

HBO Now → HBO (streaming service) – Service no longer identifies under the HBO Now brand as of August 1, 2020; depending on parlance, it may be referred to as "the HBO app" or "the HBO streaming service". TVTonightOKC (talk) 16:21, 18 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose for now until sources shake out what else to call this. The app is still run off hbonow.com, and I think the COMMONNAME currently seems to be unchanged despite the desire to re-brand. Its also unclear if this should be considered a defunct product which should be considered a distinct topic retained under the name it operated. -- Netoholic @ 04:12, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Technically, HBO Now/HBO (streaming service) is partially deprecated, but is still accessible through a standalone website (which no longer references it under the "Now" moniker) and acts as a default platform for certain app merchants (i.e., Amazon Fire and Roku) that don't currently have existing deals to offer HBO Max. While it is superseded by HBO Max, the outlying absences in clearance have resulted in WarnerMedia opting to have it act in the interim as a default OTT service for customers who can't get HBO Max legally through those devices. TVTonightOKC (talk) 14:36, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose: Common name, technically deprecated. ViperSnake151 Talk 15:15, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose and also suggest rolling back dramatic "deprecated" in the lede. HBO NOW's notability comes from the 5 years it was the main cord-cutter option, not the unknown number of months it will persist for like <5% of the user-base under a new name for the companies WarnerMedia couldn't sign a deal for HBO MAX yet. The renaming to just "HBO" is surely just a contractual quirk that won't last or be marketed. SnowFire (talk) 22:23, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- I would mostly agree with this – "deprecated" should be in the lede, but likely not in the first sentence. It did exist for 5 years before it was "deprecated" in 2020. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 21:24, 22 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.