Warner Brothers Discovery (WBD) is a very different company than it was before the merger. The new leadership has brought a much more old-school approach to the management of its intellectual property that harkens back to the era before every media company wanted to be Netflix. To be fair, we have not been in that…
It looks like Warner Brothers Discovery has been listening to customers. For the past many months, the talk has been that the new company was going to build a new app that combined Discovery+, which is essentially a lifestyle and reality TV mecca with HBO Max, a hub of edgy original dramas, Movies from major…
HBO Max, which is on its way to being combined with Discovery+ has increased its price for the first time in two years. Variety reported an increase of one dollar for users who pay for the ad-free tier of the premium streamer. Starting in February that will bring the cost to $15.99 per month. The…
The ad-supported version of HBO Max is going to be one of the best deals available in streaming next year. Why do I preface it with next year? Because in 2022 the difference between HBO Max with ads and HBO Max without ads will be very negligible. What do I mean by that? It’s this….
Has HBO Max reached its peak as a premium service in its current form? The $14.99 service combined HBO’s two previous streaming ventures into one universal service that allows users who subscribe or have HBO through a provider to watch all of its programming on-demand as well as see Warner Brothers movies as they are…
