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A standalone HBO Go service is the holy grail for cordcutters. It means liberation from cable forever. It's never going to happen. Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes just told his investors in no uncertain terms that cordcutters don't exist, and that forcing people to pay for cable to get HBO will work. Sadly, he's probably right. According to Bewkes, the idea that people hate cable and can't wait to get rid of it is a myth. We'd like to think that everyone's content to just settle into a service like Netflix, but the numbers aren't there to support that theory. Check out this doozy of a quote from the Time Warner chief: But the whole idea that there's a lot of people out there that want to drop multichannel TV, and just have a Netflix or an HBO - that's not right. Look for the data, you won't find them. But won't Time Warner pretty please let us just subscribe to HBO Go alone? We don't care about getting the Food Network! We just want Game of ...

Jul 30, 2012 10:40 AM   We can stream just about every minute of every event of this year's Olympics. The future! So why does it feel so much like a step backward? For those of us who know how to fire up the internet machine, but don't quite have the knowhow to set up a stream to the nice big HDTV, we're reduced to crowding around a 13-inch screen like we're listening to Joe Louis fight Max Schmelling in the 40s. Like, say, Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley and his family here. [Twitter] View the original article here This post was made using the Auto Blogging Software from WebMagnates.org This line will not appear when posts are made after activating the software to full version.