HBO Max To Be Replaced By New Streaming Service

As a part of Warner Bros. Discovery’s ongoing merger, they’re getting rid of HBO Max. It isn’t any extra!

In its place, there may be now solely Max — a brand new streaming service that may function programming from each HBO (and different Warner Bros. properties) and from the Discovery library of content material.

In addition to the prevailing programming that can be on Max, at this time the corporate introduced an entire host of recent and returning reveals, together with:

Per this tweet from the HBO Max Twitter account (which actually must be renamed ASAP) the brand new service goes dwell on May 23.

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I’ll be sincere; I don’t solely perceive the impetus behind altering the title of HBO Max to Max if you’ll promote it with the tagline “Max – The One to Watch For HBO.” Wasn’t that already clear when the service was known as HBO Max?

Here is a teaser for the brand new service.

Here are the three tiers for subscriptions on the brand new service:

Max Ad-Lite | $9.99/month or $99.99/yr
2 concurrent streams, 1080p decision, no offline downloads, 5.1 encompass sound high quality

Max Ad Free | $15.99/month or $149.99/yr
2 concurrent streams, 1080 decision, 30 offline downloads, 5.1 encompass sound high quality

Max Ultimate Ad Free | $19.99/month or $199.99/yr
4 concurrent streams, as much as 4K UHD decision, 100 offline downloads, Dolby Atmos sound high quality

WBD is touting that the brand new service will embrace “premium video playback,” personalization choices, extra Kids content material, simplified navigation, plus extra 4K UHD content material (at an additional value, after all). But in the end, it’s loads of hullabaloo for what quantities to a splashy rebranding of an present service. HBO Max already has loads of Discovery content material on it, and among the “new” programming that was simply introduced has been held over from the early days of HBO Max. (That Gremlins sequence was first introduced method again in 2019, for instance.) So make of this information what you’ll.