HBO HD coming soon to Latin America?

by Darren Murph posted Oct 31st 2008 at 4:25PM

Our Spanish is a touch rusty, but based on these images (two more after the break), we'd say that planned HBO HD launch in Latin America is all but imminent. According to a tipster, he captured these images of an HBO HD advertisement while watching The WB. Beyond that, we've really no idea what's going on nor when the channel will finally launch, but we're guessing you don't just run ads for something you don't plan on taking live soon.

[Thanks, Takuru]

Filed under: HBO-HD, New content

Tags: expansion, global, hbo, latin america, LatinAmerica, motorola

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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Henrique @ Oct 31st 2008 6:15PM

People are already receiving HBO HD signal in Sao Paulo, Brazil through TVA.

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Jerry @ Oct 31st 2008 6:38PM

The WB? Really? Were they watching TV 4 years ago when The WB was still around? (It's been The CW for a while now). Perhaps that's why HBO HD already exists as stated by the first commenter?

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Takuru @ Oct 31st 2008 8:25PM

This the Video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQqXb8jMqqg

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Takuru @ Oct 31st 2008 8:29PM

This channel has not left for Latin America in general, going to be the first by DirecTV that is 100% of South America, not just isolated cases.

HD MovieCity left some time ago and many companies it bought, but not HD HBO that left recently.

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RockinOscar @ Oct 31st 2008 11:52PM

HBO. ve mas alla que el cable amarillo.

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Kirkpatrick @ Nov 1st 2008 5:44AM

Thanks, Takuru. Nice to actually see latin-american HD news making the rounds around here. :)

But I feel compelled to make a correction by saying the latin Warner Bros. channel (btw only available on cable/satellite, rather than OTA like the The WB/CW) is actually called The Warner Channel, and, before the channel went for a slight rebranding years ago, it was referred to as WBTV. Also, the programming was quite different from the American WB, as many of the shows from the heyday of the late fifth US network were shown on other channels (Buffy was on FOX for its entire run and Dawson's Creek was on Sony Entertainment Television, to name a few) while Warner Channel itself at that time had Friends, ER, Babylon 5 and many classic or short-lived shows from the Warner Bros. Television catalog.

Henrique is right, HBO HD is indeed available through TVA in São Paulo. Don't know about the rest of Latin America though. Also, the ad this post mentions has been running for about a month, and ads for HBO's latest Brazilian original series, Alice, have been running since as early as august with a tiny "available in HD" logo near the end.

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