ROKU, HBO GO

Cox cable stops litterally 2 miles from my house at the town line. if you can tell me what the difference between comcast and cox is, i will drop the complaints. but the reality is "there is zero difference between the way the 2 companies operate their cable systems. except for the fact that cox gives you what you need, and comcast doesnt only "not care", but ignores your requests to boot.

I was suprised that comcast didn't offer the roku streaming.. and just as surprised to see that verizon does.. Another point for maybe switching to fios.  Before checking here I called comcast to see if it was just ANOTHER service I needed to add and was told that comcast doesn't offer hbo go for roku,, the operator suggested I return the Roku!.  I then muttered something about verizon offering it and the operator actually said "yeah you can"

Needless to say I'm looking verizon now,, have always wanted FIOS anyway.!

Agreed. I want HBOGO on my Roku. It's starting to upset me that Comcast is dragging their feet. Let's get it done.

@vincent228

Yah, you're right.  My logic is lame.  I have absolutely no idea why they don't support the Roku and it is so frustrating.

GOT is on in two nights.  I can stream it on my laptop which has a very nice HD display but the streaming quality goes in and out.  HD streaming on the Roku, be it Netflix, Amazon Instant or Hulu is quick to buffer and stays stable for hours.  I have a Sony Blu Ray player that also streams but the load times for streaming are a good minute longer than the Roku.  All told, the Roku has proven to offer the best overall quality when it comes to streaming video.  Again very frustrating Comcast/Xfinity does not support the devices.

Hello,

I recently bought a roku set-top box to replace my tv cable box (i dont watch actual tv very much in my room). I am subscribed to HBO and other channels and I was attempting to set up HBOgo but apparently Comcast doesnt support Roku boxes receiving subscription services. Is comcast going to add support for Roku anytime soon? I can live without it but it is kind of disappointing that I cant use my paid services to their full extent.

The only conclusion I can come to, vis-a-vis this ridiculous HBOGO/ROKU limitation, is that Comcast is trying to control our viewing experience, their expenditure on network resources and the overall conformance to their business model.   The problem is that, of course, it can get worse from here.

I know that there are alternatives in my neighborhood for TV and Internet, and I have no contract, and if all these guys want to do is compete at being the lesser evil, then fine, but it doesn't have to be this way. 

I see that comcast does not allow for HBO To GO service on Roku devices, whereas this is allowed for XBox360 and web browsers.  Are there any plans to correct this oversight?

agreed, please make xfinity television services platform agnostic, if you want us to remain customers and not switch over to someone else, because you know eventually someone will break the monopoly/duopoly, make sure we can use our services on any device we so choose at any time we so choose. 

And for the love of god raise the bandwidth cap, 250gb a month thats less than most people realize. Especially when you have multiple laptops and tablets and a daughter watching streaming movies while my wife watches a streaming documentary while I play games, not to mention skyping with her friends and our family back in arizona, there is just no way I am  representative of just 1% of comcasts user base. 

You need to call them and tell them about these problems as well...

YES. Comcast please GET YOUR STUFF TOGETHER and allow HBO Go access through Roku

While I completely agree, and am angered by Comcast's stance (currently) on HBO Go and the Roku, using that supposed hardship as any justification for pirating is obsurd. Pirating is wrong, at all times, period. That's not debatable. It's an illegal act.

The fact of the matter is that the content CAN be watched in a legal manner currently on your computer (and most phones). I too would like Comcast to allow it on the Roku, it's ridiculous that they (currently) don't. However, just because I'm "tired of" something isn't a justification to steal it.

AGREE TOTALLY

I added HBO Go to my Comcast service.  My plan was to replace my Netflix with HBO... but now that I have found out that HBO Go will not work on my ROKU player I had HBO removed form my account.  So I guess I'm keeping Netflix.

I'm sure that Comcast may not care that I removed it because I was dissatisfied, but it is really my only voice.

The ROKU player is important to us, it is my media player in the garage in front of our treadmill.