Time Warner is toying with a new online video site and announced today that HBOGO.com will offer 600 hours of HBO programming. The first company to sign up, however, isn’t a cable company. It’s Verizon FiOS.

FiOS TV and Internet customers soon will be able to go online and get free, unlimited access to Time Warner-owned HBO programs by signing in with their FiOS log-in credentials at www.verizon.com/fiostvonline. Up to three users in the same household can log in simultaneously. One catch: Users must subscribe to both FiOS TV and Internet. Plus, the content is meant for computer viewing — not TV.

The service starts tomorrow, Feb. 18, for FiOS customers who already subscribe to HBO.

So where are the cable companies, especially Time Warner Cable? The cable division of Time Warner spun off last year so the two similar-named companies are no longer connected.

But I suspect this service will be coming for cable users, since both Time Warner Cable and Comcast are heading up TV Everywhere, a movement to offer TV shows online to paying cable customers. It’s ironic though that a cable company wasn’t the first subscriber of the new Time Warner service.

FiOS already offers customers an online portal to get access to two channels online: Epix and NBC’s full coverage of the Winter Olympics, both are not exclusive to FiOS. Verizon has previously announced that it will also offer TNT and TBS online.

FiOS is available in limited areas of Orange County, including in the cities of Brea, Cypress, Fountain Valley, Garden Grove, Huntington Beach, La Habra, La Palma, Los Alamitos, Seal Beach, Stanton and Westminster.

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