![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This plan gives you two simultaneous streams, full HD video quality, and 5.1 surround sound but NO offline downloads. Max With Ads: $9.99 per month (or $99.99 per year).Max currently offers three different subscription plans. It seems to have come down to the fact that Discovery+ subscriptions are much cheaper than Max subscriptions ( Discovery+ plans cost $4.99 or $6.99 a month, compared to Max subscription plans, which cost two or three times as much), and WBD higher-ups were worried that a significant percentage of the 20 million existing Discovery+ subscribers might opt to cancel if their bill suddenly doubled or tripled. Discovery execs originally planned to nix both of the existing brands when Max launched, they ended up deciding to keep Discovery+ as a stand-alone service, primarily because of financial concerns. HBO’s content still exists, but as a stand-alone service/brand, not really. Which is why we will privilege it in the product experience and also not push it to the breaking point by forcing it to take on the full breadth of this new content proposition.” So does HBO still exist? Not surprisingly, the category has not met its true potential on HBO Max,” explained JB Perrette, WBD’s president and CEO of global streaming and games (per Variety). Discovery has some of the best-known kids’ characters, animation, and brands in the industry. and Discovery merged to become Warner Brothers Discovery, the new company started reevaluating its streaming strategy and came to the conclusion that HBO Max was not working and that HBO’s content would be better off being rolled into a new streaming app: Max. So, what happened to HBO?īasically, when HBO’s parent company Warner Bros. What does that even mean, though, especially for people who were giving HBO money and would like to continue watching HBO content? Scroll on for everything you need to know about transitioning from HBO/HBO Max to Max-and what it means for how to watch all your HBO faves now that HBO is no longer a thing. HBO, and its relatively new streaming counterpart HBO Max, are no more, and Max is officially standing in their place. If the competitive streaming landscape is a war, then we officially have to count HBO among its casualties. ![]()
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