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Help HBO GO - Mirroring to TV

If you have HBO, most of you can sign up for HBOGO and watch most/all HBO shows on your Bionic (it would not load on my OG Droid btw).

Problem is, when I go to MIRROR MODE to play a show on my TV via my HDMI cable, I get a message "Re-connect your cable to connect" BUT IT NEVER WORKS.

Just for comparison, it works for my Netfix.

Any ideas? Thanks!
 
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I don't think HBOGO lets you mirror it to a tv. I tried with my wife's iphone and the sound came through but I just got an HBOGO screensaver on the TV.

Thanks! Makes Sense.

Btw, I saw that NFL MOBILE is FREE for LTE customers for 2011 (no VCAST required, I verified). I haven't seen if it will let me MIRROR yet.
 
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Thanks! Makes Sense.

Btw, I saw that NFL MOBILE is FREE for LTE customers for 2011 (no VCAST required, I verified). I haven't seen if it will let me MIRROR yet.

OK, I tried MIRRORING NFL Mobile to my HDTV - NO GO

Summary:

Netflix - YES, can Mirror on TV
HBO GO - No
NFL Mobile - No
Slingbox Classic - Yes (but has been laggy using in general on Bionic)


If anybody else has done any MIRRORING tests and wouldn't mind sharing results...I'd love to see it.

Thanks
 
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If you have HBO, most of you can sign up for HBOGO and watch most/all HBO shows on your Bionic (it would not load on my OG Droid btw).

Problem is, when I go to MIRROR MODE to play a show on my TV via my HDMI cable, I get a message "Re-connect your cable to connect" BUT IT NEVER WORKS.

Just for comparison, it works for my Netfix.

Any ideas? Thanks!

I know its way way off, but the only way i got hbo go to work was to use my Logitech Revue Google TV.
 
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If you have HBO, most of you can sign up for HBOGO and watch most/all HBO shows on your Bionic (it would not load on my OG Droid btw).

Problem is, when I go to MIRROR MODE to play a show on my TV via my HDMI cable, I get a message "Re-connect your cable to connect" BUT IT NEVER WORKS.

Just for comparison, it works for my Netfix.

Any ideas? Thanks!

Won't work for me was reading that HBO blocks this. I don't know why the don't want us watching it on a tv but must be something to do with an agreement with cable providers.
 
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Won't work for me was reading that HBO blocks this. I don't know why the don't want us watching it on a tv but must be something to do with an agreement with cable providers.

I am running the newest hbo go on my Charge and it mirrors with no issues. Its got to be something on the Bionic that is blocking it. When I had the Bionic I did not test out hdmi at all before I decided to return it.
 
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