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larrik on Jan 6, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: HBO to Netflix: We’re taking our ball & going home

This is basically my answer to ndvivedi. In addition, I would add that I've had better quality from the Xfinity player, which also lets me view HBO content.

I've found HBO Go quality to be a bit too poor, even on a great connection.

Neither are nearly as good as Netflix, which I can force the bitrate using CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-S, let it buffer for a little while, then watch it straight through without issue. (Granted the secret hotkey is a little unfair, and HBO Go may very well have one too. That's the least important part, though)

9999 on Jan 7, 2012 [–]

I didn't know about that hot key! I'm guessing it's command opt shift on + s on the mac, I'll have to give that a try, thanks!

larrik on Jan 7, 2012 | [–]

CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-D also gets you into Diagnostics mode.

I learned both of these from Day[9], of all people.

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