HBO Max, when it arrived two weeks ago as an amped-up app to stream HBO with a lot of extra programming, also brought confusion about how the new streaming service fits in with the company’s two existing apps. To simplify matters, HBO’s parent company — AT&T’s WarnerMedia — said Friday that it will retire its HBO Go …
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If you’re a fan of Game of Thrones — or Westworld, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, True Detective, Silicon Valley, The Sopranos, The Wire or Veep — you’ve previously had two major ways to (legally) stream episodes. Confusingly, they have similar names: HBO Go and HBO Now. Now a new HBO app is available — HBO Max — but the …
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HBO Max made its long-awaited debut last week, but you still can’t watch The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo or reruns of Friends via your Roku or Fire TV. That’s because those popular devices remain without HBO Max apps. Despite being available on a host of platforms and devices — including iOS and Android, Xbox One and PlayStation 4, Apple TV, …
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AT&T wireless customers without unlimited data plans won’t have to worry about going over their data usage when streaming HBO Max. The company isn’t counting usage from its own streaming service, but competing services like Netflix and Disney Plus can still eat up data plans. AT&T confirmed in an email to CNET on Wednesday that wireless subscribers streaming HBO Max …
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HBO Max, the HBO-anchored streaming service from AT&T’s WarnerMedia, launched Wednesday without a confirmed deal with Comcast to give a free upgrade to the new service — packed with extra movies and shows — to HBO subscribers on the nation’s biggest cable service. But Comcast’s Xfinity Twitter account spill the news of a better-late-than-never deal Wednesday, telling the company’s high-tech X1 and Flex customers who subscribe …
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HBO Max, live Wednesday in the US after months of hype, marks the arrival of yet another major-league streaming service. It has a huge catalog of blockbuster movies and TV hits to watch — superheroes included. It’s trying to entice you with big-budget, exclusive originals. And one of those shows wants to tug at your heartstrings with an adorkable puppet. …
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HBO Max — the latest in a parade of streaming services, this one from AT&T’s WarnerMedia — launched Wednesday in the US after months of hype. For some people, helming the rollout of an app with a multibillion-dollar lineup of programming in the middle of a pandemic might be vexing. (Ask Quibi.) But Tony Goncalves, the overseer of HBO Max‘s development, says he’s …
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HBO Max’s big launch Wednesday went off largely without a hitch. Unlike other streaming launches, there were no major issues of downtime, no widespread app crashes and no outages preventing large numbers of people from upgrading their HBO Now or cable-provided HBO Go account to a one that has HBO Max. The big question for millions, however, is when HBO …
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Want HBO Max but also looking to save a few bucks on the newest streaming service? You’ll want to get your order in soon. As part of its promotion to get people signed up for its Netflix and Disney Plus rival, earlier this month HBO started offering a preorder discount on Max that drops the price from $14.99 to $11.99 …
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Apple TV Plus could be about to get a lot more content. According to a new report from Bloomberg, the iPhone-maker has “taken pitches from Hollywood studios about licensing older content” and has already bought the rights to some older TV shows and films to add to its young streaming service. The report does not mention which studios Apple has …
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