Forum - View topicNEWS: HBO Max Increases Monthly Subscriber Price Again
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Thespacemaster
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They are really pushing it.
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Greed1914
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Price increases with little-to-no warning, ads when your subscription fee was supposed to keep it ad free, and bundles with other things that you probably don't watch enough to pay for on their own.
Streaming services continue to follow the cable playbook. |
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Cypher997
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Seems like the 'seven seas' is coming back into vogue, people are getting tired of being squeezed for more coin from inferior products and services.
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loveliver
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Should it be $19.99 with ads and $32.99 without? |
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Riku157
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I am glad that I'm getting a new computer soon. Streaming has gotten worse as time has progressed. |
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mdo7
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This is really not going to make some people really happy regardless of what subscription plan they have. Streaming has become a double-edged sword for me when it comes to pricing and how long the content stay on that streaming provider's menu.
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Cardcaptor Takato
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At this point cable is cheaper than streaming
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Cypher997
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I've taken to getting blu-ray's/dvd's and using HTPC software on my machines (desktop and laptop) as I know that 'disc rot' will eventually do them in so I'd rather have something stored locally that I can enjoy watching on my own time. If the discs of various anime series aren't available for a reasonable price, there are other means to do so but have their own hazards to deal with so do that at your own peril.
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chronos02
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Too many increases, too often. The instant it goes above 10$, it should be an instant cancel. No ifs, buts, or whys, it's an instant removal. Plus, with worsening streaming quality, the splitting of catalogues across several services, and the restriction to access the accounts to prevent sharing just makes it even worth less than 5$ to me. Luckily I still buy physical media, and to the personal PLEX it goes (or Jellyfin, still deciding which to keep).
TBH, with the recent forced ads for lower tiers, and HORRIBLE oversimplification of the sorting options, the forced "look, our recent stupid thing we bought we want you to force down your throat" main page ads, the annoyingly lack of subtitles for tons of shows, and the terrible, horrible, dumb audio mix of some of these shows and movies, it really makes me wonder what the point is to have "service on demand", when they barely offer anything I want outside of the show itself. Here's my "greatest hits" list of current streaming services amazing features: - Compression Artifacts ✅ - Macroblocking ✅ - Banding ✅ - Random stream cuts ✅ - Excessive BGM and SFX volume ✅ - Extremely low voice volume ✅ - Forcing 5.1 on 2.1 systems ✅ - Missing country's official language audio track ✅ (it exists, they need only ask, it's offered for free, lol) - Missing subtitles on the country's language ✅ - Mistimed subtitles ✅ - Only [CC] available ✅ - Incorrect subtitles ✅ - Forced ads ✅ - Main page giant full screen banner with seasonal garbage ✅ - Categories removed ✅ - Dumbed down search ✅ - Cumbersome browsing ✅ (catalogue now only shows 2 thumbnails and a quarter on an entire 65" TV, can't see anything else) - All of this for the modicum of 20$! (per service: Netflix + HBO + Disney+ + Prime Video + ...) (+ 5$ if you have a second home + 5$ if you have more than 3 people in your house, per extra member) At this point, cable was better. I thought it was obvious Gabe was right? Ah whelp, time to upgrade my NAS. |
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SinisterOracle
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HBO Max Ben Lisa Frank David Deep Sea Discovery Starlight Review Max Pro Ultra is so not worth the price, and it hasn’t been for a long time. It’s a shame the ignorant suits don’t realize that they’ve squandered not only the name recognition of HBO over the years but also the value of the catalog. There isn’t much worth watching on it anymore. And what it is worth watching can be found on Hulu, the seas, or physical media (which will always remain in vogue).
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Kadmos1
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A base subscription of $9.99 should mean no ads for Hulu, HBO Max, Disney+, Paramount Plus, Netflix, Crunchyroll, etc. Now, if a person is a non-paying user, I can understand having ads. |
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mdo7
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I wonder if HBO Max raising the prices has anything to do with WB-Discovery (who is currently the owner and creator of HBO Max) could be selling off their company, could that be the reason?
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Nionel
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The timing on this was perfect. We got the email about it yesterday morning, not 48 hours after they asked us to stop sharing our password...
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Jabootu
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Death spiral. The base problem is that there aren't enough subscribers interested in carrying multiple streaming services. That's why they cut cable. All these companies decided that the market would support a myriad of Netflixes, and (unsurprisingly) that assumption has proven to be false. A shakeout has been coming for a long time, and this is part of that process. In the end only two or three such services will survive.
Netflix got there first and probably will remain number one. Amazon Prime will probably hang around because most people--including myself--don't subscribe primarily for that but for the free shipping and other Amazon perks. Disney would seem to have the money to hang on, although that may not be true. Their theatrical films have been hemorrhaging billions of dollars collectively over the last five or ten years, and attendance at their parks is taking a beating from (again) insane price hikes. They are already folding Hulu into Disney Plus, but I'm not sure that will be enough. The crazy thing is they could make money hand over fist if they would just focus on streaming their classic old content (at a fraction of the price of creating new content), but for some reason they just refuse to do that. It's really inexplicable. |
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