Game of Thrones (HBO)

Woolen_Horde · 2012-02-22T13:18:16.000Z

Amazon and Best Buy are offering pre-orders at $35 for blu-ray and $30 for DVD. Pre-order now and lock in your savings!!!

John_Reynolds · 2012-02-22T14:09:57.000Z

I’ve had the Blu-ray set on my wish list for months and didn’t notice it. Went from $55 down to $45 and now $35. Pre-ordered, should arrive along with Mass Effect 3 and its strat guide (hardcover, 'natch). Wife’s going to kill me.

Khoram · 2012-02-23T17:52:18.000Z

Alan Dunkin:

You can’t just give in to the customers willy nilly. A company would never, ever make money that way. You have to find a model that works for your company, lets you make money (and more shows) while attempting to appeal to your customers.

I think this is a case, like when mp3s/Napster took off for music, where the TV/cable industry is fighting a losing battle.

So far, HBO doesn’t really seem to have an issue the way they present their programs. Regular core programming, On Demand, Go, syndication and releases on disc seems to work perfectly well for them.

Doesn’t a premium pay service have some right to decide how customers could see its programming and hence not lose money by going straight to streaming services?

— Alan

Why can’t HBO let people who don’t have cable pay HBO $10-15 a month directly for access to HBOGo? How much does HBO through a cable package cost the consumer, and how much of that money does HBO actually see? I’m actually curious, not asking rhetorical questions.

Destarius · 2012-02-23T18:46:08.000Z

If I have HBO and I torrent it anyway - is that ok?

Blips · 2012-02-23T18:58:16.000Z

Destarius:

If I have HBO and I torrent it anyway - is that ok?

That’s almost worse man! By doing that, they aren’t getting you as a viewer which means they may think the show is less popular than it truly is!

Alan_Dunkin · 2012-02-24T00:15:11.000Z

I wouldn’t torrent HBO shows. They actively track down torrent users and send their ISPs warnings.

— Alan

Razgon · 2012-02-24T02:24:09.000Z

And where did you come by this information? I know of plenty of people who have torrented their shows without anything happening.

That said, I do not encourage torrenting.

TurinTur · 2012-02-24T04:06:23.000Z

Blips:

That’s almost worse man! By doing that, they aren’t getting you as a viewer which means they may think the show is less popular than it truly is!

That’s only if you happen to have one of those record-audience machines, doesn’t it?

Lunch_of_Kong · 2012-02-24T04:39:08.000Z

Razgon:

And where did you come by this information? I know of plenty of people who have torrented their shows without anything happening.

That said, I do not encourage torrenting.

Cormac · 2012-02-24T04:47:08.000Z

What, no fine? Or is that on page 2?

Razgon · 2012-02-24T05:09:41.000Z

Oh, those? Thats just a sample - Many companies does this where they track down a small sample once in a while and send out to the ISP’s.

They don’t sit in 12 man teams and monitor the net,which is what I kinda got the impression HBO did.

Tin_Wisdom · 2012-02-24T05:23:15.000Z

Khoram:

Why can’t HBO let people who don’t have cable pay HBO $10-15 a month directly for access to HBOGo? How much does HBO through a cable package cost the consumer, and how much of that money does HBO actually see? I’m actually curious, not asking rhetorical questions.

That’s actually a pretty good question. I wonder if HBO gets some amount of money from a cable provider even without an actual subscriber (basically paying HBO to be an option for a new subscriber)? It seems to me that a lot of “cable” providers only offer HBO if you’re already buying a “premium” package of some form, so some of the total cost of HBO might be partially factored into that baseline.

But at the same time, your cable provider must surely take a “cut” of the $12 monthly fee, so a direct-to-computer service run by HBO would probably be even more profitable for them, you’d think.

Black_Isis · 2012-02-24T09:47:45.000Z

Razgon:

Oh, those? Thats just a sample - Many companies does this where they track down a small sample once in a while and send out to the ISP’s.

They don’t sit in 12 man teams and monitor the net,which is what I kinda got the impression HBO did.

HBO is known to gather IP addresses by seeding their own content for some of the most popular torrents though, which is how they collect those IP addresses.

Razgon · 2012-02-24T09:57:25.000Z

Ah well - I just hear a lot of those horror stories which usually have no bounds in reality so I’m a little sceptic.

Anyways - Back on track! I am REALLY looking forward to season 2…And I friggin’ cant wait for the dvd release of season1.

If they incorporated parts of book 3 in the second season, does that mean there will be fewer seasons than books?

Black_Isis · 2012-02-24T09:58:31.000Z

Razgon:

Ah well - I just hear a lot of those horror stories which usually have no bounds in reality so I’m a little sceptic.

Anyways - Back on track! I am REALLY looking forward to season 2…And I friggin’ cant wait for the dvd release of season1.

If they incorporated parts of book 3 in the second season, does that mean there will be fewer seasons than books?

Not likely, since it sounds like they will probably cover book 3 over the course of 2 seasons, or at least that’s what the showrunners wanted to do when they talked about it some last year.

Woolen_Horde · 2012-02-24T13:11:01.000Z

The word is that Seasons 3 and 4 will be filmed back-to-back, pretty much taking a full year to film. That will cover Storm of Swords. The only weird thing with the plan is that those kids will grow a lot before they reconvene to film season 5.

Call it wishful thinking or what have you, but it also sounds like GRRM is working hard on Winds of Winter. He doesn’t want the show to catch up to him.

Alan_Dunkin · 2012-02-24T19:41:07.000Z

I dunno, I mean, from what I understand there are bits of Storm of Swords in Season 2… but 3-4 in one full sweep… I dunno. It’s gonna be rough. That’s the problem with filming with kids I suppose. Then again, the books take the place over a somewhat lengthy period of time anyway so… they might “stretch” the boundaries a bit more and have them age moreso just to make it easier. Since Rickon is featured very little, he might be the easiest to replace anyway…

— Alan

Woolen_Horde · 2012-02-24T19:51:37.000Z

Alan Dunkin:

I dunno, I mean, from what I understand there are bits of Storm of Swords in Season 2… but 3-4 in one full sweep… I dunno. It’s gonna be rough. That’s the problem with filming with kids I suppose. Then again, the books take the place over a somewhat lengthy period of time anyway so… they might “stretch” the boundaries a bit more and have them age moreso just to make it easier. Since Rickon is featured very little, he might be the easiest to replace anyway…

— Alan

They’re going to have some elements, and odds are the cliffhanger is going to be what happens in the prologue for Storm of Swords. But remember, at the beginning of Storm of Swords there’s an author’s note that the chronology is slightly off, and what takes place in the prologue happens right when the events at the end of Book 2 are happening.

Woolen_Horde · 2012-02-24T21:25:18.000Z

New trailer and footage just went live on HBO GO. Expect YouTube shortly.

Edit to add: Holy Shit.

Woolen_Horde · 2012-02-24T22:14:24.000Z

YouTube version
http://youtu.be/dlmM81LD1rY

Prepare to squeeeeeeee your brains out.