HBO Pushes Back Removal of HBO GO and HBO NOW Apps from Older Apple TVs

[russell_314]

This makes no sense, Apple hasn’t deprecated the device.

Perhaps updates to their app cause the older hardware to be unsupported. Much like how computer software eventually becomes unsupported on an older PC

 

[Optheduim]

Perhaps updates to their app cause the older hardware to be unsupported. Much like how computer software eventually becomes unsupported on an older PC

Fine, but why lose the user base?

 

[Tech198]

Well. that suprises me.. HBO is actually doing something better. I wonder if the is the beginning of a new generation.

 

[Ghost31]

Fine, but why lose the user base?

It’s probably not a large user base to begin with and they probably have the numbers to go on. How many people have a box that’s a decade old? Even the Apple TV 4 is still supported and that came out 5 years ago. Apple TV 3 was released in 2012. Do you remember 2012 and understand how long that is? I’m surprised it’s even been supported up until this point.

 

[w5jck]

Why? Is online retail being shut down as well?

Not very bright? Got so much money people who are on a budget don’t register on your radar? Come on dude, many people are going to tighten their money belts, especially those on limited, incomes due to the virus. Use a little imagination, if you have any...

 

[HVDynamo]

A5 and 512mb is the iPhone 4s. Which currently supports HBO Go on iOS8 and is not losing support.

The appleTV version of the A5 is only a single core though so the performance is probably closer to iPhone 4. But still, I agree that the ATV3 doesn't make sense to drop yet. It only needs to do 1080p. The second gen ATV I kind of get though. I still have one and lots of apps haven't worked right on it for a while.
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It probably struggles to downsample 4K, or handle h265 streams. Again - this is an 8 year old device. It has a single core A5 with 10 year old iPhone performance levels. It’s highly unusual to support such old hardware.

It's most likely not downsampling anything from 4K. They aren't going to stream a 4K stream to a 1080p device. Now if they are switching to only h265, I could see that. That algorithm uses less data, but is more processor intensive to decode.

 

[HVDynamo]

Well the Amazon and Google products are subsidized by selling your data to advertisers, so they’d damn well better be cheap.

I couldn’t be happier with my Apple TV 4K. Superb 4K 60p interface, very powerful and snappy, great software support. Everything works incredibly well, integrated into our phones, tablets and computers seamlessly with a very high level of polish. Well worth the extra bit of money in my opinion.

It’s great to have competition though, agree with you there!

I agree with you, but at the same time there are many people who don't see that, and won't pay for that. They just want the cheapest thing they can get, and the others are cheaper and current.
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It’s probably not a large user base to begin with and they probably have the numbers to go on. How many people have a box that’s a decade old? Even the Apple TV 4 is still supported and that came out 5 years ago. Apple TV 3 was released in 2012. Do you remember 2012 and understand how long that is? I’m surprised it’s even been supported up until this point.

The ATV3 was still sold up until 4 years ago though. I understand dropping the ATV2, but I think it's too soon to drop the ATV3.

 

[AppleHaterLover]

Amazon cut Prime support for my 2012 Samsung TV and no one complained

 

[mnsportsgeek]

It probably struggles to downsample 4K, or handle h265 streams. Again - this is an 8 year old device. It has a single core A5 with 10 year old iPhone performance levels. It’s highly unusual to support such old hardware.

HBO isn't in 4K to begin with. There is no downscaling needed by the box. HBO is the dinosaur of streaming tech.