Fans of Game of Thrones, Girls, and Boardwalk Empire may be getting closer to being able to watching their favorite shows without committing to a cable subscription filled with hundreds of channels worth of nonsense they will probably never ever watch.
In the past, fans have gone so far as to ask HBO point-blank to make the channel's VOD mobile platform, called HBO GO, available without a cable subscription. To which HBO has offered up no concessions with a polite side of non-committal lip service.
Meanwhile, streaming VOD service Netflix has quietly gone on to produce top-shelf original content, which has not only paid off in Emmy Gold, but catapulted Netflix over HBO in terms of U.S. subscribers.
It's not irrelevant to note that HBO is a subsidiary of Time Warner, which also happens to be the second largest U.S. cable provider. However, it looks as if the country's number one cable provider, Comcast, kinda sorta just made HBO available without a cable subscription—the catch being you have to bundle it with a broadband subscription.
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