We will be traveling in Germany during the final episode of Game of Thrones. Does anyone know how we might be able to view the episode? I assume our HBO subscription will not work while in Germany. Appreciate any thoughts.
Posted by
Berlin
3015 posts
HBO plays really no role in Germany and most uropean countries. Even streaming will be an issue because your (I guess US) services will be geo fenced, so not playing when accessing in a different country and a local streaming service will provide it to you in German, not in English. Would be different in Scandinavia.
Some GoT fans tried technical workarounds, e.g. how to use HBO from Germany published on Chip magazine website.
Article is in German. Use DeepL for translation.
Posted by
Stuttgart, Germany
3050 posts
I would suggest that the show will be available for you to watch when you get home but it's hard to avoid those spoilers.
I have an HBO Now subscription through Amazon Prime that I watch via a Roku. I get around the ISP issue by paying $10/mo for a VPN that includes SmartDNS. I use Overplay but there are other services. If it's that important to you, you could pay the $10 subscription for Overplay or a similar SmartDNS service (which is and I stress, different from JUST a VPN) for one month which you could then use to watch the episode on your device via their app. You'd have to have HBO Go or HBO Now of course to watch it on your device as well.