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					Originally Posted by muppetman11  I was reading news stories a year or two back saying HBO would consider streaming direct to the customer going forward.
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 And they were usually dismissed as peoples' whish full thinking rather than fact.
 
HBO prefers their content to be tied to a provider so that the save on promotional and admin costs.
 
I personally think that the changing way that many people consume content now (i.e. streamed) has effectively forced them down a route that they would have preferred not to have gone down.