Black Friday 2025 is in full swing, with many discounts opening up this week. It’s also the best time of the year to get on a streaming service, as major streamers such as Disney+, HBO Max, and Apple TV are all heavily discounted for Black Friday.
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Following comments teasing the change from Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, HBO Max has today made a price hike official, with prices going up by around 10% on all plans.
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Streaming services have gotten very expensive over time, but despite already being right in line with other streaming options, the CEO of Warner Bros. says that HBO Max is “underpriced,” but that it won’t stay that long forever.
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After almost two years under the moniker “Max,” Warner Bros. Discovery has decided to pull a 180-degree turn and rename the streaming service back to the original name, because that’s just how that works. Max will now become “HBO Max.”
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Max, the streaming service that emerged from HBO Max, is changing how the app looks on just about every platform, including Google TV. The new app ditches the high-seated menu for a familiar side panel option among streaming services.
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Disney and Warner Bros Discovery have launched a bundle deal that gives users Disney+, Hulu, and Max (still better known as HBO Max) from $16.99/month, a massive discount from the usual rates.
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As streaming continues to evolve, Amazon Prime Video is preparing to introduce new ad formats while Max, formerly and still better known as HBO Max, is set to raise prices.
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The increasing cost and quantity of streaming services have left many feeling like it’s all just too much, but Verizon has a fairly compelling new deal that offers Netflix and Max for a low monthly bill.
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For quite some time, HBO Max allowed users to bill their subscription via YouTube TV, but that functionality appears to be broken following the recent rebrand to “Max.”
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Yesterday saw the arrival of Warner-Bros Discovery’s rebrand of HBO Max to Max, which also saw a new app for some odd reason. But as a result of the rebrand, the HBO Max shortcut button on some Android TV remotes has hilariously broken.
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With an influx of Discovery content, the HBO Max we’ve come to know and maybe sort of love is set to become “Max” tomorrow, with a new app in some cases.
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After weeks of rumors, Warner Bros. Discovery has announced its “new” streaming service, “Max,” which will combine HBO Max and Discovery+ into a single service with new pricing, an updated app, and a lot of new content on the way.
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The wonderful thing about Google TV is the platform’s ability to look through various streaming services and help you find out where shows and movies are available. But, strangely, HBO Max has disappeared from Google TV over the past couple of days.
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This was an awful week to be Netflix, as the company announced its first ever quarter with a subscriber loss, and more to come following continues price hikes. In an effort to reverse that, Netflix also has plans to adopt an ad-supported plan, and crack down on password sharing. Read on for more about Netflix and the rest of what’s on Google TV.
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This week Netflix released the first trailer for Stranger Things 4, the next season of the acclaimed show, while HBO Max reportedly earned the third slot in the streaming wars. Here’s what you need to know.
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HBO Max launched amid the pandemic with a great library and the perk of same-day theatrical releases for a while, but it was notorious for slow performance and bugs. Now, as its revamped app has been made available on Android TV, Apple TV, and elsewhere, HBO Max is owning up to that rough start.
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In streaming news this week, Netflix remains adamant that it has no plans to launch an ad-supported pricing tier as other platforms have, and Disney+ released the long-anticipated first look at its Obi-Wan Kenobi series.
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The Chromecast with Google TV launched last year with a special bundle offer that delivered six months of Netflix access and the device for a cut cost, and now a similar offer is launching with HBO Max.
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After teasing it for a few months, HBO Max has just debuted its more affordable, ad-supported streaming tier that costs $9.99 per month.
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Despite being less than a year old, HBO Max has quickly become one of the most important streaming services on the market, thanks to an extensive content library and same-day movie releases this year. This week, WarnerMedia revealed that a more affordable, ad-supported HBO Max tier will be coming soon.
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Before its debut on Roku and Fire TV, Google’s Android TV platform was one of the few ways to access HBO Max. Now, HBO Max is getting an update for Android TV that brings back the “restart” button and fixes some issues on the new Chromecast with Google TV.
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Ahead of its release in theaters and through streaming tomorrow, HBO Max is confirming details on how you’ll be able to watch Wonder Woman 1984 on the new Chromecast with Google TV. Unfortunately, that lacks support for Dolby Atmos.
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The mobile app for Google Play Movies has a handy feature that monitors other streaming services to see if a movie or TV show you’re about to buy is already available for viewing. Now, Google Play Movies has added the latest streaming juggernaut, HBO Max, to its watch directory.
A handy trick of Google Assistant is its ability to cast content from various video services to any nearby Chromecast device. For a while, HBO supported Google Assistant integration, but with the debut of HBO Max, that casting option has not only disappeared, but there’s no replacement yet.
