Google Play adds HBO’s Game of Thrones and 6 other shows

It’s not TV, it’s HBO on your dungeon phone.

The creator and broadcaster of some of a many renouned and critically-acclaimed radio programs has finally released them to Google Play. Starting immediately, users of Android phones and tablets can download particular shows or full seasons of TV hits that embody Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, The Newsroom, Girls, Veep, True Blood, and The Wire. Google has hinted around Twitter that some-more news is on a approach per a budding partnership with a network, including a inclusion of a documentary programming and strange films like a Liberace docudrama Behind a Candelabra.

A la grant prices are $1.99 or $2.99 for particular episodes in customary definition. HD adds about a dollar to a cost tab to those prices, and full seasons run $14.99 to $34.99. All Google Play prices are in line with those on other streaming services, including Amazon’s video service. Also, as with other services, stream deteriorate programming is not available, though all before seasons are on offer.

These shows will be ocular on any Android device, including a far-reaching operation of Qualcomm Snapdragon-equipped intelligent phones and tablets. The programs are also viewable on Google’s new Chromecast streaming adapter, that plugs directly into your TV.

This is another step in a increasingly liquid inlet of party consumption. Today’s consumers competence start a uncover in their vital room, watch another 15 mins while tucked into bed, afterwards finish a partial on their phones while watchful in line during a post office. The Google Play news only gives film and TV junkies another venue to prove their cravings.

If you’re already an HBO subscriber, a HBO Go app is also an choice to consider. The primary disproportion between a dual systems is that HBO Go offers not only before seasons though also new episodes from a stream seasons of HBO’s strange programming. The whole behind catalogues of shows no longer on a air, including The Sopranos, Oz, and The Wire are also enclosed on a HBO Go app, though are not nonetheless accessible on Google Play. With HBO Go, users don’t have to compensate additional for these episodes; they’re enclosed as partial of a subscription. If you’re bending on these shows, a $10 to $20 per month you’d deposit in an HBO wire subscription (depending on your wire carrier) competence be some-more cost-effective than shopping them a la carte. Game of Thrones junkies, on a other hand, will wish to snap these episodes adult before, we know, winter comes.