HBO Now reaches 800,000 subscribers

(Telecompaper) HBO Now has attracted 800,000 paying subscribers since the standalone streaming TV service launched in April last year. The figure was announced by HBO Chief Richard Plepler in a conference call on parent company Time Warner's annual results. Pieper said growth should increase as the service is expanded to more distribution platforms, noting that Now is not yet available on Playstation and Xbox. For HBO Go, the on-demand service offered with the premium channel, those platforms ac