Technology

59148 readers

2773 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

239

Max wants to push alerts on viewers when there is breaking news on CNN. (variety.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

65 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's why they preemptively dropped "HBO" from the old "HBO Max" moniker.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Get HBO classic for an additional $14.99!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't give them any ideas!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of MTV

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

"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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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