Cutting the cord to cable tv, Sony Vue may be your answer

Amazon scooped up most of the old HBO series which was a nice move.

IS HBO included with Vue or extra?

 

yeah since HBO has a standalone service, not much of an issue that Vue doesn't have it

 

I need to check out those cable channels on Amazon fire tv. I just assumed they would ask for some access charges. Good to know.

I'm tempted to get Amazon Prime (first of all, I almost make enough purchases to warrant getting the service for the shipping end of things alone). And I got Fire TV now, I just feel compelled to pull the trigger and get it.

Just downloaded the Amazon Fire TV Remote app on my LG G2 phone and that's pretty cool. Easy to use.

 

I just downloaded the A&E app (free) on Amazon fire tv. Pretty cool. Watching the first episode of the new Roots series.

Vue does not have the A&E family of channels.

Now time to go and hunt for the History channel.

And lo and behold I've found it and bingo, bango, boingo, I've got my A&E channels at my fingertips.

 

ok, so I got the History channel downloaded on my Amazon fire tv, but they wanted verification that I have it with a cable subscriber. So I went through the verification process (ATT Uverse) and it successfully allowed me access. So now that I've done that, is it just going to assume I will continue to have Uverse as my cable provider? I'm cancelling it after Tuesday. So how will it know I no longer have Uverse?

The app on the phone did ask me to actually used my login credentials from Uverse. So I could see that failing after Tuesday. Oddly enough, fire tv did not do the same thing with it's verification process.

As a test on my phone, I went to task manager and asked it to shut down the History channel app. I went back into the app and it doesn't ask for me to login with my uverse credentials and it's giving me access to all it's content. Looks like a one time deal. I sure hope so.

Just did the same thing with the Tennis channel.

 

Each App is different but I wouldn't assume it is one-time for any of them but maybe you will get lucky on some of them. I have seen some ask for re-verification if haven't used that app on that device in a while. Also seen some re-request every couple of weeks or a month, etc...

 

I use amazon more than Hulu and maybe even Netflix. I also bought my subs for Showtime and Starz through Amazon because I like the guide layout better and all in one place. Also believe it was $1 cheaper per month through amazon at the time I subscribed compared to other purchase options.

 

I have not seen a HBO Now app (which is the stand alone service) on PS4 yet. However, you may still be able to access through the PS4 HBO Go app. Haven't tested that.