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A friend made this t-shirt to celebrate the launch of Max.

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It's Not HBO. It's TV.

The Sopranos. Six Feet Under. Game of Thrones. Succession. The Wire. The Last of Us. Property Brothers... wtf? How the mighty have fallen. Celebrate the dilution of a once-great brand. It's Not HBO. It's TV.
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Bull Shannon said:
I haven’t updated every iteration of HBO Max to MAX but I’m finding MAX works…terribly? Weird that they’d scrap the existing infrastructure and downgrade the user experience like that.
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A slightly worse app, with a lot more shit to trudge through to find the good stuff. I love this stage of capitalism.

Only positive I've found is that all of Parts Unknown is back and I can dive into my rewatch.
 
ayayrawn said:
A slightly worse app, with a lot more shit to trudge through to find the good stuff. I love this stage of capitalism.

Only positive I've found is that all of Parts Unknown is back and I can dive into my rewatch.
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I haven't gotten a chance to open Max Yet. But I don't know if the HBO Max app was the model image of a perfectly functioning app. It crashed a lot during major premiers and finales.
 
dbarila said:
I haven't gotten a chance to open Max Yet. But I don't know if the HBO Max app was the model image of a perfectly functioning app. It crashed a lot during major premiers and finales.
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HBO is the model of how to not operate in the streaming era. If anyone remembers the HBOGo app, it was essentially unusable. HBO Max was a marked improvement, though you also had to download a completely separate app.

I’m beginning to think that HBO just keeps rushing things to market instead of building on what they already have. This new app caters to the casual streamer that throws on trash TV to pass the time, leaving hardcore movie/TV lovers in the dust.
 
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ayayrawn said:
A slightly worse app, with a lot more shit to trudge through to find the good stuff. I love this stage of capitalism.

Only positive I've found is that all of Parts Unknown is back and I can dive into my rewatch.
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Yeah, it took me way too long to find the latest episode of Succession. That shit should be front and center!
 
Melt Face Molly Drop said:
HBO is the model of how to not operate in the streaming era. If anyone remembers the HBOGo app, it was essentially unusable. HBO Max was a marked improvement, though you also had to download a completely separate app.

I’m beginning to think that HBO just keeps rushing things to market instead of building on what they already have. This new app caters to the casual streaming that throws on trash TV to pass the time, leaving hardcore movie/TV lovers in the dust.
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You know, maybe it was HBO Go that used to crash. I kind of forgot that was preceded HBO Max.
 
siremobunny said:
Anyone else use a Roku for the MAX app and find that the app overheats their Roku (the Roku shows on-screen overheating warnings)? This used to happen when streaming 4k films on the HBO Max app, but now it happens with everything on the MAX app.
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I have a Roku TV, not a separate Roku device. I used Max for the first time last night. Only issue I noticed was that the aspect ratio seemed to be off. We watched an episode of Somebody Somewhere, and the opening credits were touching the bottom of the screen, almost getting chopped off.
 
Melt Face Molly Drop said:
HBO is the model of how to not operate in the streaming era. If anyone remembers the HBOGo app, it was essentially unusable. HBO Max was a marked improvement, though you also had to download a completely separate app.

I’m beginning to think that HBO just keeps rushing things to market instead of building on what they already have. This new app caters to the casual streaming that throws on trash TV to pass the time, leaving hardcore movie/TV lovers in the dust.
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TBF the rebranding is the fault of Warner Bros Discovery this time, the owner of HBO. The CEO has been pretty frontpage about his cost-cutting measures in recent months, so it's no surprise the result would be an app worse than the already not great HBO Max, and a refocus towards reality tv, as opposed to the prestige programming of HBO.
 
I'm wondering now if its still an issue with 4k content being streamed inefficiently on the Roku app, and they have more 4k content on the app than they used to, so I'm noticing it more.
 
Jeff Lerner said:
I have a Roku TV, not a separate Roku device. I used Max for the first time last night. Only issue I noticed was that the aspect ratio seemed to be off. We watched an episode of Somebody Somewhere, and the opening credits were touching the bottom of the screen, almost getting chopped off.
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This is one of the 4k Streaming Sticks that I'm using. I would expect a Roku tv would have better heat dissipation.
 
Jeff Lerner said:
I don't understand why they would roll this out a few days before the finales of two tentpole shows like Succession and Barry. Seems like a recipe for disaster.
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This is because after the merger with Discovery, the company is being managed by the head of Discovery, whose model is reality TV made cheaply, not the kind of prestige shows HBO does. To him, the HBO stuff isn't the main show, it's just an add-on to the Discovery and HGTV-type stuff.
 
LeSamourai said:
This is because after the merger with Discovery, the company is being managed by the head of Discovery, whose model is reality TV made cheaply, not the kind of prestige shows HBO does. To him, the HBO stuff isn't the main show, it's just an add-on to the Discovery and HGTV-type stuff.
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Yeah, HBO Max and Discovery+ combined into one platform. HBO will still exist and they will still put out the prestige TV, Docs, Miniseries, Sports, and Movies under the HBO banner but it’s gonna be a smaller portion of their business model. Meaning we were paying almost $20 for a streaming platform where that was the primary focus, theoretically we should be getting that AND the shit reality TV (that’s what they are trying to sell it as) but in all actually there will be less of the stuff we signed up when we subscribe to HBO and they hope we will still be willing to pay a premium for it. I am gonna stick around for a bit and see how it goes. I can always rewatch, Sopranos or Game Of Thrones while everything shakes out but if it ends up that all I am using it for. I will probably just those series or purchase them from Apple TV+ and call it a day.
 
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