CNN Max is likely to evolve over time. Among the features the company will try out are ways of alerting Max viewers to breaking news while they are watching something else on the service, whether it be an HBO series, a Turner Classic Movies selection or an old episode of Food Network’s “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.”

The enshittification of our world continues unabated.

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    HBO used to be my favorite streaming service, I loved it. Now it’s full of reality tv crap. RIP.

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      Among all the other bullshit they pulled, the CEO bragged upon purchase of choking the service with cheap to produce reality show crap.

      I had HBO in some form for decades, since I was a kid. They were the best and among the last prestige content creators. I dropped HBOs corpse last year over it. Fuck this late stage capitalism race to the bottom.

      Also, if somehow all the shit they pulled upon acquisition wasn’t enough to stop paying them 160 annually a year ago, this would have been.

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        I want general grants to be given to small time production teams, even if some of the teams are teenagers. I always think of all the great stories we are missing, just because people were skipped over.

        A good story can hold its own weight and doesn’t need a huge FX budget or popular actors.

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          “I want general grants to be given to small time production teams”

          That’s funny. We don’t help the little guy here in the US. We funnel everything to the Fortune 1000 and pray for rain.

          Anything less would make us dirty commies or something.

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      I’ve had multiple issues with very recently released movies (like Crazy Rich Asians) not playing at all and only giving me pixelated nonsense or the aspect ratios being completely fucked up. Never happened on HBO Max. Only since the forced migration to the new app