Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, Disney around $50, and that’s a lot of content. Kanopy and Hoopla free through my local library are also quite good, though not all you can eat.
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'HBO Max' Streaming Service to Launch in May 2020 for $15 per month
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If you watch in cable they will censor things. Better stop cable it is so primitive technology
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Cable companies started feeling the heat. Apple like companies will put more heat to them. You can spend saved money for your close friend or partner or save it. That would be better man! Choose TV streaming by technology companies like Apple and not these HBO also this is my opinion.
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HBO Now is the standalone subscription to HBO if you don’t have HBO as part of your cable package
HBO Go is the complementary app if you do have HBO as part of your cable package.
Now and Go are separate entry points into HBO.
It sounds like HBO Max will cannibalize HBO Now
I thought John Oliver was goofing when he mentioned this on his show a few weeks ago.
He's about as thrilled as I am..lol
It looks like HBO GO, but with Max...you'll get reruns of Friends, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, The West Wing...and many other 90s sows I personally never watched. I actually do use HBO Go, since the live HBO channels like to show the same movie over and over again, almost every single night for 40-50 days.
But I'm not even sure if I'll have that anymore by Jan 1, I have to decide if I want to ditch overpriced FIOS...even with the "promo/discount so called deal" that did come with the free HBO, the price of it, subpar programming is insane.
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He's about as thrilled as I am..lol
It looks like HBO GO, but with Max...you'll get reruns of Friends, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, The West Wing...and many other 90s sows I personally never watched. I actually do use HBO Go, since the live HBO channels like to show the same movie over and over again, almost every single night for 40-50 days.
But I'm not even sure if I'll have that anymore by Jan 1, I have to decide if I want to ditch overpriced FIOS...even with the "promo/discount so called deal" that did come with the free HBO, the price of it, subpar programming is insane.
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List all the tv subscription services that you think one average family subscribes to that amounts to $150/month.
ATT is not a "telecom company" they are a company that began in telecom. Verizon is a telecom company and so needs to sell connections to survive. Go90 never made it off the ground. ATT sells connections as well but in addition to that offers other services allowing multiple streams of income. Having the ability to own content, serve content, and provide the connection to content is an expensive and difficult thing to balance but provides diversity. Apple was a hardware company with an OS written for the hardware which has been very successful but its not enough anymore to be single threaded. Apple is becoming a services company that also offers hardware. With the ability to deliver more than just music, Apple has a big advantage over providers like Spotify who only have music. Spotify might be in many ways a better service than Apple Music (each person has a preference, I use Apple Music) but Spotify only needs to be sure music service is the best it can be. Companies being in multiple businesses can make things messy but they will survive long term. Amazon is a good example of being in a lot of places at once. As they falter in areas of the business, others are there to catch the business and they have room to grow. Point is, ATT is providing HBO Max because like it or not the business needs to do what it can to survive and try to grow. Sitting on telecom forever will only make it difficult to survive. We all wanted to pick what we wanted to watch when we wanted to watch it but most of these services still do not provide that feature. They offer a list of content we can pick from and start from the beginning to watch but not what I would call offering what I want to watch and when. Netflix might be doing this better than anyone with the large selection but its the same as pay TV. You flip through the guide looking for something that might be of interest. Same thing with stand alone services. Issue now, you need to subscribe to pay TV cost levels to get access to the number of services to really have a lot of choice. This is only a guess on my part. I see MacRumors covering non-Apple products and news. I assume because there are other things to talk about and it drives more traffic to the site. I don't come here to read about the Samsung Note but I see the articles and I'm fine with that. Can't be single threaded after-all.
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To clear up some misconceptions. Hbo Max is free if you have HBO Now - HBO is basically phasing out Now. All the content will be the same in Max but it will have original content and exclusives and various other series like a Rick and Morty and Friends, etc.
I don’t understand why people think this is a new service - it’s basically HBO trying to take control of its product and cut out the middleman of cable tv providers. They can offer Max direct to consumers and are trying to phase out their HBO Go product as well.
I don’t understand why people think this is a new service - it’s basically HBO trying to take control of its product and cut out the middleman of cable tv providers. They can offer Max direct to consumers and are trying to phase out their HBO Go product as well.
This is not accurate.
Your understanding of what the service entails is a misconception on your part.
HBO Go and HBO Now don't have live TV.
HBO MAX will Be Bundled With AT&T TV & Will Launch in May 2020 for $14.99/Month
Still not what was posted even though they’re talking about monthly recurring amounts
So if Apple channels doesn’t get all this stuff then I’m jumping over to HBO Max. Big blow to Apple channels if it doesn’t get all the content.
I understand this has HBO content plus more, but what if you already subscribe to HBO via cable? I'm not paying an extra 15 bucks just to get the HBO Max exclusives.
With all of these competing streaming packages, its going to end up making Cable look more attractive. Even with stuff like Sling and Vue, I have to have internet for them. When I added what I'd pay a cable company for internet, then added the base fee for those services and package add-ons to get the channels I wanted, it came out to be the same or more than cable.
With all of these competing streaming packages, its going to end up making Cable look more attractive. Even with stuff like Sling and Vue, I have to have internet for them. When I added what I'd pay a cable company for internet, then added the base fee for those services and package add-ons to get the channels I wanted, it came out to be the same or more than cable.
Yeah... most people aren't doing that. I have YouTube TV for sports (college football season only), Netflix (T-Mobile pays for most of it), and Hulu for like $5/month. that's it. Point is, most people aren't doing tons of these services. Most people just pick and choose the one or few they want and that's it.
I surely hope HBO will join the bandwagen and offer 4K HDR Dolby Atmos (from 1080p SDR Dolby Digital Plus).
Regarding streaming quality, watching HBO via Amazon Prime or Apple TV Channels is the way to go. Much higher bitrate than HBO Go or Now. If you use Apple TV Channels, you can even download the episodes.
If someone cord cutting to save money, then ends up paying more for their cord cutting services, they are cord cutting wrong.
I really don't understand comments like this anyways. Why subscribe to everything all at once?
Unlike cable, signing up and canceling streaming services is very easy, painless, and can usually be done in a few seconds on a website or app. Sign up for once service for a few months, catch up on all your favorite shows, and cancel for a while.
That is what I have been doing with a bunch of services. After Disney Plus comes out, I will be cancelling my Netflix account until the next season of Stranger things.
One could save a lot of money this way, or one could sign up for everything out there then complain about how much it is costing them.
I remember this was the coolest thing at 8pm! They even had a Behind The Scenes Special on how they created this. No CGI, all tiny detailed models.
Your linked article says there are multiple prequels in the works, and the one that was cancelled was the Naomi Watts project, not the House of the Dragon project, which is the prequel this MR article refers to.FWIW, HBO has cancelled the Game of Thrones prequel:
HBO has reportedly canceled its Naomi Watts-led Game of Thrones prequel
The first of HBO’s Game of Thrones spinoffs is DOA — and it’s hard to tell how many are left.www.vox.com
Not sure how to start a new topic so I’ll add this here. Got this email today been waiting in a deal and signed right up! https://www.hbomax.com
