Are you less likely to buy HBO BDs now that they're streaming on Amazon Prime?

[Jar Jar Stinks]

Beginning May 21, Amazon Prime members will have unlimited streaming access to:

• All seasons of revered classics such as The Sopranos, The Wire, Deadwood, Rome and Six Feet Under, and of recent favorites such as Eastbound & Down, Enlightened and Flight of the Conchords
• Epic miniseries, including Angels in America, Band of Brothers, John Adams, The Pacific and Parade’s End
• Select seasons of current series such as Boardwalk Empire, Treme and True Blood
• Hit original movies like Game Change, Too Big To Fail and You Don’t Know Jack
• Pedigreed documentaries including the Autopsy and Iceman series, Ghosts of Abu Ghraib and When the Levees Broke
• Hilarious original comedy specials from Lewis Black, Ellen DeGeneres, Louis CK and Bill Maher

The multi-year deal will bring additional seasons of the current series

I had been waiting for a good deal on Deadwood and The Wire. Now I'm not. How about you?

[wormraper]

ummmmm, no, of course not. netflix and amazon prime are good for a one time watch if you want to see something you haven't seen, but never a substitute for the joy of ownership (and the quality)...I didn't spend $10k on a home theater setup to feed it McDonalds

[Chiefy]

I buy "must own" movies/tv shows regardless if they're available on streaming for the superior quality. I'm glad these will be made available, so I can watch the one's I haven't yet. If I like them, I will eventually own them.

[Joeker]

No but it might get me to drop HBO from my cable lineup depending how new their content is.

[mport5150]

I have Prime and I will still buy the HBO series that I want to own

[warrian]

I've pretty much stopped buying TV series altogether. I just don't get back to them very much as there's always something new I want to see instead. I collect Game of Thrones from HBO on Blu but that's about it. I love lots of other shows of theirs, but I just can't see sitting though The Wire, Rome or Deadwood again in their entirety and I pretty much consider them all near perfect shows. As an HBO subscriber, with Comcast on demand, I can pretty much watch any of their shows in 1080i for free and I still don't find the time for repeats.

[legendAA93]

I can already view every show on HBO go and Ondemand. But I still plan on getting all the GOT seasons eventually. I'll also buy Sopranos complete series if they ever release it.

[Chiefy]

Originally Posted by legendaa93

i'll also buy sopranos complete series if they ever release it.

+1

[Braktastic]

Originally Posted by warrian

I've pretty much stopped buying TV series altogether. I just don't get back to them very much as there's always something new I want to see instead.

This.

[bookcase]

I've cut way back on buying TV series except for my absolute favorites. Currently, I get HBO GO, so that has excised the need to buy most of their series. I'm cutting back to basic cable in October (when my cable bill will swell to well over $200), so having these shows available on Amazon Prime is great.

[Scottie]

No. I always prefer the Blu-rays over the streaming option, especially in the long run.

[klauswhereareyou]

Are they in HD at all?

[JeffTheMovieGuy]

HBO Go is finally on Playstation Network however they are lacking a lot of Internet Service Providers.

I have also been happy with the fact that onDemand has every HBO series available in pretty good HD for some of their earlier shows (Oz, The Wire, Curb your Enthusiasm)

I plan to get the Band of Brothers and Pacific Blu-ray Tins as soon as I can. That is really the show you need to see on Blu-ray.

[Dex Robinson]

The availability of something on streaming doesn't affect my blu-ray buying decision.

Ultimately, it comes down to this: I simply do not trust anyone else to guarantee long term access to the shows I want to see.

For me, guaranteed access to my favorite shows means taking MY blu-ray off the shelf and putting it in MY player when I want.

Their are too many variables over the long term for me to feel comfortable trusting various segments of a delivery network. Will amazon prime ALWAYS have access to the HBO library? What if I don't like the cost of amazon prime in three years? What if some actor sues because streaming profits weren't in his contract and the show gets tangled in legal limbo? What if my ISP decides they deserve a cut for all that bandwidth? My ISP once did a system "upgrade" overnight that rendered my wireless router inoperable.

Maybe none of those things will ever happen.

Nevertheless, when I hold that disc in my hand, I feel no concerns.

[Petra_Kalbrain]

Originally Posted by wormraper

ummmmm, no, of course not. netflix and amazon prime are good for a one time watch if you want to see something you haven't seen, but never a substitute for the joy of ownership (and the quality)...I didn't spend $10k on a home theater setup to feed it McDonalds

My sentiments are identical in every way!

I remember that I said the exact same thing once in one of these "streaming vs Blu-ray" threads. From my very simple and straight forward post, someone actually only read me as bragging about how much money that I have "wasted" on my home theatre setup. They also went on to tell me that having spent that much on my home theatre, I [to paraphrase] "should be using it to its full potential and not limiting my content choices by restricting the medium by which I watched stuff." HAHAHA!!! Talk about missing the point entirely!

[steve_dave]

Originally Posted by klauswhereareyou

Are they in HD at all?

720p on nearly everything, 1080p on Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire TV.

As for this deal:

Game of Thrones is excluded because money. Self explanatory.

True Detective is excluded because money. Self explanatory.

Its past seasons, no next day air. Which makes sense but you can always use HBO Go to access more than the Prime choices.

And no guarantee of recent seasons for Boardwalk Empire, Veep, or Girls. Its selected seasons for BE and both Veep & Girls are most likely going to be a few years behind the current airings.

[HD Goofnut]

The only HBO TV shows I would buy would be maybe a complete Sopranos or Big Love (for my wife) box set on BD. The rest I can live without.

[captveg]

I only want & own Game of Thrones, so no, it makes no difference to me.

[Risahawkeye]

Originally Posted by wormraper

ummmmm, no, of course not. netflix and amazon prime are good for a one time watch if you want to see something you haven't seen, but never a substitute for the joy of ownership (and the quality)

Completely agree.

[klauswhereareyou]

Sopranos is the only one I'd buy on blu-ray, and probably one of the few tv shows I'd buy anyway. For me most tv shows are only a one time viewing experience, especially most of the shows put out today that have boring over reaching arcs that almost never have a good pay off. I know how people love to say oh we're in a golden age of tv right now, maybe so for the first few seasons of a show, but then it get bad and by the finale you're let down, and what have you done...wasted like 40+ hours on something with a terrible ending?