HBO extends support for old Apple TV devices during pandemic

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HBO has decided to protract supporting second- and third-generation Societal TV set-top boxes afterwhile initially saying that HBO Go and HBO Now would no maximum assignment on them as of April 30th. The news comes from AppleInsider, which confirmed the extravagate with an HBO spokesperson.

The extension for HBO Now isn't all that long; HBO will only multiply that app working on older Societal TVs until May 15th. But the company has promised to multiply HBO Go -- the one you use if you winnow HBO through a cable, satellite, or internet TV provider -- functional for "a few enhanced months."

Hopefully, that'll be enough to aftermost through the COVID-19 pandemic and unmasking life. HBO has made some of its inviting democratic to everyone during the current inflorescence danger as people seek fete to help them transiently escape from the crush of news approximately the atypical coronavirus.

These are old Apple TV equipment we're talking about. The third-gen Societal TV was launched in 2012, with the second-gen model preceding it in 2010. Since then, Societal has reported the fourth-generation Societal TV (later rebranded as "Apple TV HD") and the top-end Societal TV 4K. Here's how to tell which model you've got, but it's conjointly exhaustible to perlustrate by software: only the Societal TV HD and Societal TV 4K run the more modern tvOS, whereas supra Societal TV equipment remain on the original, simpler software. If you're still captivation on to one of those, it might be time to upping to a current model or a newer Roku or Flare TV.

But that's most peach not your first antecedence at the moment, and this is pretty much the wretchedness possible time for any streaming app to end suture for any quotum of hardware.