Forum:Iewing the Game of Thrones using HBO Go

Many thanks to all who have created this site and discussion Forum. I wanted to comment that I stumbled across Game of Thrones as I was testing my new video editing computer platform and the new HBO Go web service. While I subscribe to HBO through my Cox Communication service I view the HBO channel only occasionally. As I mentioned I tried HBO Go a few weeks ago when it was initially launched without much success. But about a week ago I tried it again with my new video editing platform and it worked about as well as one could expect. I was able to view HBO Go content in HD full wide-screen format. It was then I tried the first episode of Games of Thrones and got hooked viewing all 10 episodes in just one week.

Note, I'm a retired Computer Engineer and can easily be tagged a super geek so I tend to push the envelope on the computer platforms I use so your experience with viewing the Game of Thrones using HBO Go will vary.

Platform: Intel i7-2600K SandyBridge CPU GIGABYTE GA-Z68X-UD3-B3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 GIGABYTE GV-N440D3-1GI GeForce GT 440 (Fermi) CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB DDR3 SDRAM Mageia 1 Linux Operating System, released 1 June 2011

Your setup likely does not have to be this quick but I would expect that most newer MAC platforms should handle HBO Go HD quite nicely. I can't speak for Windows platforms as I don't use any of those.