14 DAY TRIAL // HBO, the best known premium cable network, has announced that its Go service, which offers online video-on-demand, will soon be launched on both home gaming consoles and on television sets that are able to access the Internet on their own.
The initial report has not mentioned the consoles that will get access to HBO Go, but judging from previous history with television content both the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3 from Sony are good candidates.
It's unlikely that streaming will come to the Nintendo-made Wii, but it is possible to see HBO Go running on its follow-up, the Wii U, which is at the moment set to be released at some point during 2012.
The announcement about the expansion for HBO Go has been made by Jeff Bewkes, who is the chief executive officer of Time Warner.
HBO Go was first launched early during 2010 and allows those who have a subscription to HBO to stream a number of movies created by the channel and episodes for all current and old original series.
Access is currently possible through a web browser and also via applications for the iOS and the Android-powered devices.
Those who use HBO Go need to authenticate through their cable service provider.
Both the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 are not popular ways of watching movies through the Netflix service, with the company saying that more than half of its subscribers have at one point watched content on a home console.
Hulu Plus is also available on consoles, but it seems to be less popular than Netflix.
Both Sony and Microsoft are interested in attracting as many media companies as possible to their platforms because they have both billing them as multimedia centers that are able to offer more than video games to users.