July 9-10, 2013
San Francisco, CA

Tickets On Sale Now

Apple's set-top box Apple TV is getting a handful of popular streaming video service apps that nearly everyone should be happy about.

Today the company announced that a native Apple TV app for HBO Go is headed to the device. HBO Go, which is the streaming version of premium cable channel HBO, first made its appearance on Apple TV months ago when the company rolled out an iPad application that enabled the devices Airplay screen sharing feature. It's nice to see that a full app is now available, which should provide a more reliable streaming connection plus higher quality video resolution.

In addition to HBO Go, Apple TV is also getting sports cable channel ESPN's streaming service WatchESPN, Japanese animation video service Crunchyroll, Sky News, and Qello. The last big addition to Apple TV's line up of native apps came nearly a year ago when Hulu Plus finally came to the device.

Apple also released some statistics about its digital media sales. The company said iTunes users have downloaded over 1 billion TV episodes and 380 million movies to date. And of those downloads, iTunes users are purchasing over 800,000 TV episodes and over 350,000 movies per day.

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