CountFrylock Posted November 22, 2020 Posted November 22, 2020 I've Noticed How Desperate ATT/Warner-Media seems to be in getting people to subscribe to HBO Max but why is that? i haven't noticed Disney going to the lengths of screaming "Disney Plus Disney Plus!" all over every show they own and then making a Disney Plus Themed wrestling ring
BlackNoir Posted November 22, 2020 Posted November 22, 2020 (edited) 3 hours ago, CountFrylock said: I've Noticed How Desperate ATT/Warner-Media seems to be in getting people to subscribe to HBO Max but why is that? i haven't noticed Disney going to the lengths of screaming "Disney Plus Disney Plus!" all over every show they own and then making a Disney Plus Themed wrestling ring No, I just get ads for it on every possible platform....Do you want to know how sick I am of the Star Wars Christmas special.....You don't want to know how sick I am of the Lego Star Wars Christmas special Edited November 22, 2020 by BlackNoir 1
Sawdamizer Posted November 22, 2020 Posted November 22, 2020 I have to sit down and figure out which ones I actually even use anymore....because I think I want Max now.... Disney+ is trash, and really only was appealing when the Marvel movies were coming out. Netflix is shit... their content isn't as fresh as it used to be, and I get why, but they just raised the monthly fee too. Hulu is my go to...they have their adult swim. Channel, and a lot of my sleeping background shows. Idk.... pornhub is free. 1 1
PenguinBoss Posted November 22, 2020 Posted November 22, 2020 They own so many properties now, I'm not too surprised they advertise it, especially if it's for shows/movies that used to be on other streaming services.
Seight Posted November 22, 2020 Posted November 22, 2020 Spoiler There's been like two or three new streaming services started since this joke was made.
Poof Posted November 22, 2020 Posted November 22, 2020 i only have netflix, shudder, and amazon prime of course. Used to have Hulu but ehh
tsar4 Posted November 22, 2020 Posted November 22, 2020 10 hours ago, CountFrylock said: I've Noticed How Desperate ATT/Warner-Media seems to be in getting people to subscribe to HBO Max but why is that? i haven't noticed Disney going to the lengths of screaming "Disney Plus Disney Plus!" all over every show they own and then making a Disney Plus Themed wrestling ring Disney doesn't need to, they've got ABCNews schilling for them, which they also own .
CountFrylock Posted November 22, 2020 Author Posted November 22, 2020 (edited) i dunno it just seems like HBO Max didn't become as popular as Warner wanted it to be and now they are trying to make it sound like it's better than it actually is Edited November 22, 2020 by CountFrylock
Vamped Posted November 22, 2020 Posted November 22, 2020 I only paid for HBO for game of thrones when I was pregnant, then I just binged the rest of the crap final season when they do the free weekends. Everything else I get from Netflix and Hulu. I have prime video but I dont really watch anything on it. Ive seen all of Downton Abbey I think Im also paying for funimation but like ........ I havent looked at it in months. It just like 7 bucks that gets charged on my credit card every month
Mortir Posted November 22, 2020 Posted November 22, 2020 They are 150b in debt from what I understand.
Mortir Posted November 22, 2020 Posted November 22, 2020 3 hours ago, CountFrylock said: i dunno it just seems like HBO Max didn't become as popular as Warner wanted it to be and now they are trying to make it sound like it's better than it actually is I tried out the free trial. I like that most of the DC animated stuff seems to be on there.
katt_goddess Posted November 22, 2020 Posted November 22, 2020 7 minutes ago, Mortir said: They are 150b in debt from what I understand. Roughly this. Some asshole went on a shopping spree and the result was multiple businesses purchased serially with the thought that things would repay themselves instantly which is not how this works. Add more dumb choices to that and you now have someone desperately trying to keep their job by attempting to create an artificial rush of demand-subscriptions to HBO Max. 1
Mortir Posted November 23, 2020 Posted November 23, 2020 1 hour ago, katt_goddess said: Roughly this. Some asshole went on a shopping spree and the result was multiple businesses purchased serially with the thought that things would repay themselves instantly which is not how this works. Add more dumb choices to that and you now have someone desperately trying to keep their job by attempting to create an artificial rush of demand-subscriptions to HBO Max. It is such an inconceivable amount of money. I mean I cannot get the bank to loan me 20k because I have poor credit but the company 100b in the red yeah sure let them have our stuff they are sure to pay us back.
little_girl_lost Posted November 23, 2020 Posted November 23, 2020 does anyone have amc+? it's supposed to include ifc, and if so, does it have Maron? i've been trying to find a platform to watch it for some time now
CountFrylock Posted November 23, 2020 Author Posted November 23, 2020 4 hours ago, katt_goddess said: Roughly this. Some asshole went on a shopping spree and the result was multiple businesses purchased serially with the thought that things would repay themselves instantly which is not how this works. Add more dumb choices to that and you now have someone desperately trying to keep their job by attempting to create an artificial rush of demand-subscriptions to HBO Max. and i just don't think that's gonna work.....hbo max really doesn't have the original content to say it's as great as Warner says it is 1
Mortir Posted November 23, 2020 Posted November 23, 2020 56 minutes ago, CountFrylock said: and i just don't think that's gonna work.....hbo max really doesn't have the original content to say it's as great as Warner says it is They have a lot of really strong properties, Game of Thrones, DC Comics. Unfortunately things like VICE are probably going to drag them down. But I am not an expert.
katt_goddess Posted November 24, 2020 Posted November 24, 2020 21 hours ago, CountFrylock said: and i just don't think that's gonna work.....hbo max really doesn't have the original content to say it's as great as Warner says it is It's basically a start-up with thoughts of being a big dog right out of the gate by using a tag that died years ago, adding 'MAX' to it and seemingly attempting to kill off all possible competition by buying them up and gutting them for parts leaving people with supposedly no other option than their chihuahua start-up. HBO...might have meant something in the 90's but the last time I got a free preview weekend, it was nothing but ancient movies that either had already been airing on basic cable or stuff that I already outright owned on DVDs. DVDs. That's how old some of those things were. It was ten levels of disappointment and I had 10 free HBO channels to be disappointed by.
CountFrylock Posted November 28, 2020 Author Posted November 28, 2020 all these hbo max themed marathons aren't making it look any better
Ginguy Posted November 28, 2020 Posted November 28, 2020 Get woke go broke.... CNN is a tax write-down at this point, hence why it is on the sale block. DC comics is the same, the movie properties never really took off the way Marvel did for Disney. AT&T as a company was too heavily indebted to take on the various Warner properties at the time they did. As far as streaming services go, I ignore all of em. For the most part they all show the same things as the free sites such as Tubi, and the original content is lackluster at best. 1
Seight Posted November 29, 2020 Posted November 29, 2020 4 hours ago, Ginguy said: Get woke go broke.... . So "woke" means "buying a lot of different businesses which industries are all on the downswing of cultural relevancy and then trying to shove them into newer products and thinking that's gonna work"?
RedemptionZeni Posted November 29, 2020 Posted November 29, 2020 I tried scanning the bar code for a free HBO Max trial on my phone while watching Adult Swim last night, but my TV is from 2012, so nothing happened. I'm not really interested in this service anyway. I'm not sure what it has, but I already pay over $200/month for cable, and I'm cutting out all the movie channels this month because I rarely watch them and have seen the movies they play countless times. 1
CountFrylock Posted December 12, 2020 Author Posted December 12, 2020 and in comes AT&T Forcing another hbo max event on toonami because they really need people subscribing right now i guess
Mortir Posted December 12, 2020 Posted December 12, 2020 1 hour ago, CountFrylock said: and in comes AT&T Forcing another hbo max event on toonami because they really need people subscribing right now i guess I thought Toonami was on a Saturday.
katt_goddess Posted December 12, 2020 Posted December 12, 2020 17 hours ago, Mortir said: I thought Toonami was on a Saturday. Next weekend there's a Wonder Woman animated movie marathon instead of the usual Toonami schedule. There will be more 'aim your fone at screen for free trial' ads during the movies since WW84 is slated to be simu-released on HBOMax. Current thoughts on all this is that that Qubi thing was only a thing for the 5 minutes it was a free-trial thing. The second the free-trials started to roll down, Qubi died horribly.
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