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hi this is Joey Davidson and I'm here with a look at the HBO Go app for the Xbox 360 the HBO Go app is officially available today on the Xbox 360 you'll need to be a subscriber of HBO with a cable provider that actually supports the app currently so when you go to your Xbox dashboard you'll need to navigate to the apps marketplace which is what I'm doing here don't make fun of my Academy background you'll find HBO go download it or as you see download again download won't take long it's not a very big file and once it finishes you'll want to back out of the active downloads window just like you normally would and then navigate to the app from your dashboard see you'll head into you won't do this was just silliness you head into apps my apps and you'll find HBO GO so you'll launch the program and what's gonna happen here is it's gonna have you activated with your cable provider I live in the mid-atlantic of the US and my cable provider is Comcast or Xfinity and as you'll see in a moment I was a little perplexed with what was going on here it authenticates you can either preview the service or activate it and I was going to activate it and then it comes up with a full list of current cable providers that are supporting the HBO Go app for the Xbox 360 on that first list he won't see Comcast or Xfinity you'll see just about everything else unfortunately so I headed into more TV providers and it was a bunch of stuff that I had never heard of and this was the point where I contact did Sean Ani on the site and I was like hey man what do I do so Sean had me sign in using his DirecTV account and what's gonna happen when you do that you're gonna get an activation code you follow the instructions on the actual HBO Go app once those are completed you'll be able to cycle through and actually get the full HBO app experience it was just what's loading up right now it looks a lot like the Xbox 360 Dashboard it's broken down in the exact same fashion where the Netflix app if you have any experience there looks wildly different this one is kind of very similar clearly I saw Robo Cop immediately wanted to check that out I think you have parental controls so here I have the late-night stuff but you can probably turn that off or control it as per necessary if you have any young kids that you don't want using the apps and then launching a movie is is I mean it's literally exactly like launching an Xbox 360 game or a program or app or whatever and it boots up quickly once the movies up and running you have Kinect controls which are pretty similar to Netflix here I just said Xbox pause and it paused and then saying Xbox brings up your standard menu an Xbox play brings it back and then you're on control controls are exactly the same as well so if you've used the Netflix app before the in movie experience is pretty similar the UI when you're out of the movie looks exactly like that of the Xbox Dashboard hopping in and out as quick buffering looks pretty quick so yeah and Here I am just checking out the movie for a little bit just to kind of see what it looks like and make sure that the quality is pretty good top story Pretoria the threat of nuclear confrontation in South Africa escalated today when the ruling white Miller so that's the HBO go up for the Xbox 360 if you use the Xbox 360 doll for other entertainment stuff it probably is pretty similar to that experience that your already used to so this has been Joey Davidson for TechnoBuffalo comm thanks for watching