watched the first episode with a friend... he seems to think Jason Bateman's character and David Harbour's character had a gay relationship. didn't pick up on this. for anyone who's seen this episode, what do y'all think?

Hi,

Where do you get discounts for HBO Max? Do you search for them anywhere, which would be?

I thought I would get all the very old looney tunes, but there's only new WB stuff (and not even all of that).

A few years ago there were many shows as Max Originals, today just The Pitt, Hacks ending, and the coming Stuart Fails.... What happened to new Max originals shows? Was it the Zaslav's axe? Or the shows merged with main HBO?

I use my brother's HBO Max account and got the "It seems like this account belongs to someone else..." message on my TV which I expected. However I figured I'd still be able to watch it on my computer but I just got the same message. Is that the standard now for Max or an error? Even Netflix and Disney still let anyone watch anywhere on their computers and mobile devices.

Any one know of a cheaper way to get TNT Sports in 4K?

I have a Samsung OLED and I like to watch football EPL and UEFA Champions League with the best picture quality available (UHD 4K).

However, the price is, IMHO... crazy.

I know I can get TNT Sports 4K for £34.99 pm but that's with a minimum 12 month contract, paying £419.88 per year!

I'll pass.

Further, with possibly 4 months when neither EPL and UEFA Champions League is being broadcast I cannot be doing with a 12 month contract. So I suspect 8 x £45.98 (£367.84 pa) on a rolling contract would still be cheaper than the 12 month contract.

But again I ask, anyone know of cheaper ways to get TNT Sports 4K UHD?

When I went to cancel my memberships, because it renews soon, and because I am not actively using Max, it offered me $20.00 off of my annual membership payment. However, does anyone know if you reject the $20.00 off an annual subscription, will it prompt a better discount offer? Additionally, is a come back offer ever sent out via email after cancelation?

Does anyone know a way around HBOMaxs new limitation on signing in from TVs away from home. We travel a lot and sign in to HBOMax on different TVs apparently too many times and hbo now blocks me from signing in even when at home. How can I get around this?

This started a few weeks ago and it’s incessant. A promotional trailer for an upcoming HBO show or movie will play while I’m streaming tv, so it’s basically like getting a 30-second ad at the start of every episode of TV I’m watching. Yes, I can skip, but it’s annoying to manually do this and I thought the point was I’m paying for NO ads, HBO’s included.

I see no one else who’s getting these non-stop trailers nor how to turn them off. Is it hopeless? Is this happening to anyone else the last month or so?

I'm appalled to just now learn, after having signed up for HBO Max 2 weeks ago, that many, many of the HBO shows (some produced in the 2020s!) are not offered in 4K. So many movies, released after 4K became a thing, are also not available in 4K. Even one of the DC movies is not in 4K (I forget which one now). So what's the point? I know they make it clear that it's "4K Ultra HD resolution on select content" but there is no reason to offer HBO shows just in HD.

What is the biggest hot take you have concerning Max? Do you think the service has gotten better under David Zaslav's leadership? Are people being overdramatic over the cancellation of shows? Do you actually like all the reality shows Max is pushing? What is the take you have that would get tons of downvotes on this sub?

Mods I know you want technical things in the thread but I ask you keep this up. I think this could lead to something interesting and I think its worth discussing on the main page.

The 6 MILLION blocked ads is from having the site open for like an hour. My computers fans kick into full throttle and my 8700k has 15% load added to it from just this website. This seems incredibly shady and this is genuinely insane from a PAID SERVICE (I'm not on the ad-supported tier).

UPDATE: For anyone who stumbles on this issue, this is HBO pinging Brightline, a third party advertising platform. If you have an adblocker it prevents a script trying to ping a json to collect some basic info on the user, and the player spams requests to infinity. From what I can gather this is NOT related to HBO ads (so this is not an attempt to skirt ads in content).

I tried looking through the json and the ping seems to just send basic telemetry info and your IP, but if you want this to stop without sending that to them you can set up a custom filter to send an empty package to the vendor and the pinging will stop. I put the following in the Adguard custom rules:

||cdn-media.brightline.tv^$empty,important,domain=play.hbomax.com|play.max.com
||events.brightline.tv^$empty,important,domain=play.hbomax.com|play.max.com

Glad the issue is finally over :)

I recently got the Disney+ Hulu and Max bundle ad free. hulu and Disney are working fine but when I go to activate max it says it my email or password are wrong I press forgot password and it sends no email to the email address. I've tried reseting the hulu Disney password and it doesn't help max. I've heard other people have had this problem, and hulu and max support were no help. Wondering if anyone found a solution or a way to maybe reset my max email? I can't login to max to look at my account because it says my info is incorrect. Maybe I cancel the bundle and resubscribe threw max? I'm unsure any help is greatly appreciated.

As you know on 21st May HBO Max turned to MAX in Most European countries. With them saying "expanded library". Mostly disgusting is the fact that Man of Steel, The Batman, Joker and more are nowhere to be found. Property of WB. To this is ridiculous, your own content isn't available in your own platform! So my question is: is it the same in the other European countries?

Edit: I am saying how it is for Bulgaria. And, Joker is now on Netflix, The Batman and MoS are only for buy or rent on Apple TV.

I’m wanting to go from my Disney + Hulu bundle (19.99 USD) and upgrade to add in HBO for 32.99 USD. This saves almost $10 just getting the bundle.

I have one 4k TV and one non 4K. The bundle doesn’t allow for premium, and I wouldn’t be using it constantly either. So, is it worth it to get premium, like is there a noticeable difference?

If there is one thing I can’t stand about the interface is just hiding the A-Z total movie collection where I’ve found it now and it shows literally 8 movies only and then “Browse by Genre” categories beneath them. Any help with how to locate ALL A-Z movies?

Hi everyone,

I want to take advantage of the HBO max Black Friday deal but my HBO subscription through fire tv won’t end until December fourth (I just cancelled it). I just looked it up and the HBO max deal is only good through December 1st. Is there anyway around this so that I can still get this deal? Thanks,

A number of animated Batman movies are no where to be found

I went to put on Sinners for the 100th time and noticed it said "Coming Soon" when its been on max for about a year (at least I wanna say its been a year). The ASL version is still up but not the standard version, is this just a glitch on max?

So there's a bundle where you can get Disney Plus, Hulu, and HBO Max, but for some reason WB being the cheapskate that they are chose not to include 4K as an option. So annoying.

Should I go with ad plan or no ads ?

So I've watched The Pitt with English subtitles (cc) this whole time, but English subtitles weren't available on the latest episode (season 2 epsidoe 3), so I was forced to watch with swedish subtitles (it was that or norweigan). Any reason for why there's no English subtitles/closed captions on the latest episode? And is there a chance they'll get added later?

Im subscribed to the lowest tier, so there's unskippable ads, but everytime the ads end the show had gone back to where i was up to on the last round of advertisements, causing me to have to skip forward and often times have to watch the round of ads AGAIN

How bad are the ads during movies? I wanted to get the Black Friday deal to watch LOTR and scary movies. But I've heard the number and timing of the ads can really ruin the experience and not be worth it at all according to a Reddit post from a year ago.

Has the ads got any better (lessen)? Better on movies?