Warner Bros. Boss promises investors the HBO password crackdown and price hikes are coming

[Dany28]

The streaming wars are over and with them the era of cheap but what comes now? https://kotaku.com/hbo-max-password-sharing-price-zaslav-warner-bros-2000624901

 

[Clippy]

Guess I will continue to not pay for their streaming service. I don't even know what they have on offer since I don't watch modern Western 'entertainment'.

 

[X y b e r - S k u ll]

Do ya feel that, lads? The winds of the seven seas… They call for us once again…

(I have no idea what HBO even has on offer but I would still pirate just on principle)

 

[PhrawzT]

They have already lost most of their best shows to Paramount. Seems like they won't be around much longer if they keep this up.

 

[diet_orange]

Yeah, I had a passing interest in Max because of all the animated content. But then they kept removing all of it. The removal of the original Looney Tunes was the straw that broke the camels back as far as I'm concerned

 

[PhrawzT]

Yeah, I had a passing interest in Max because of all the animated content. But then they kept removing all of it. The removal of the original Looney Tunes was the straw that broke the camels back as far as I'm concerned

I did have a subscription to Max, but cancelled it once they lost most of the Cartoon Network library.

 

[Turbo Kid]

Do ya feel that, lads? The winds of the seven seas… They call for us once again…
View attachment 109363
(I have no idea what HBO even has on offer but I would still pirate just on principle)

Seven seas, private trackers, or usenet. Though the seven seas is the far more user friendly option...as long as you've got a good VPN and antivirus LOL.

 

[Gingers]

 

[Moloch]

It's always about greed. These companies exploit consumers with all shenanigans possible, including lobbying governments to avoid any type of accountability and regulation, they exploit their own lower-ranked employees with miserable wages, that hardly cover living costs, and all these nefarious practices for billionaire shareholders to get more profit and CEOs, Presidents and VPs to get their bonuses. Disgusting.
It's also not only the tech and media industry. All these things are symptoms of a unfettered, cowboy-like, late-capitalism and a sick corporate world.

 

[Ezri_Muldoon]

I mean, HBO Max (I refuse to follow it's constant name changing shenanigans) isn't even available where I live due to a multi-year terrestrial TV exclusivity deal on HBO content.

But come on. HBO gutted it's entire animated back catalogue & removed a decent amount of it's previously available live action content so what's the point?
Heck I'm a Snyderbro, know what I did when they dropped the:
"none existent, never ever filmed oh woops we found it you gotta' subscribe to see it" Justice League cut?
I Pirated the Snyder cut whilst I waited for my Blu-ray to arrive.
And even if HBO was available in my region. I would have done the exact same lmao

Streaming is dead. Too many services. Return to physical media. Get an SSD. Return to torrents.

 

[bjork]

Never had it, never planned to have it. As it turns out, it's really easy to just not watch things, or even know they exist.

 

[Dany28]

I mean, HBO Max (I refuse to follow it's constant name changing shenanigans) isn't even available where I live due to a multi-year terrestrial TV exclusivity deal on HBO content.

But come on. HBO gutted it's entire animated back catalogue & removed a decent amount of it's previously available live action content so what's the point?
Heck I'm a Snyderbro, know what I did when they dropped the:
"none existent, never ever filmed oh woops we found it you gotta' subscribe to see it" Justice League cut?
I Pirated the Snyder cut whilst I waited for my Blu-ray to arrive.
And even if HBO was available in my region. I would have done the exact same lmao

Streaming is dead. Too many services. Return to physical media. Get an SSD. Return to torrents.

Your last sentence is the solution back to the good old evaluation technique.

 

[Bakuma1997]

They died for me the second they removed their cartoons

 

[Rox00]

HBO Max like any other streaming service don't deserve anything, especially once they removed a ton of the content I cared for. So you know the drill folks as everyone has stated in this thread, time to go sail the seven seas.

 

[Jeff]

Great. So Zaslov not only throws animation and Looney Tunes in the garbage to favor reality because he hates kids/animation, but now thinks of pricing the app because Disney, Paramount, Peacock and Netflix are doing it? God, theses CEO's are being like Batman villains every time I look away.

 

[GeoHikari]

One day, streamings will end and we will use money for our homes daily things.

Next year, Netflix will have sports broadcasts. And this streaming will rise a lot the subscribing plans. And also next year, other platforms will also rise their prices and more series removals will occur. I think that piracy and DVD/Blu-ray must be our future, since television channels are worse since two decades ago(also here in Brazil).

Post automatically merged: Yesterday at 11:24 PM

Seven seas, private trackers, or usenet. Though the seven seas is the far more user friendly option...as long as you've got a good VPN and antivirus LOL.

USA have two great options for physical media: Discotek Media and Shout! Factory.

Both of those are releasing many classic series, animes and Tokusatsus in DVD and Blu-ray, and they are gaining profits. Japan and parts of Europe have also a great force in disk media. But sadly, here in Brazil streaming become an overdose, and only one distributor releases DVDs and Blu-rays of productions who didn't are present in any platform.

 

[Jeff]

television channels are worse since two decades ago

TV nowadays is nothing but marathons of the same shows over and over and over and over, sports over and over and over and over.

And don't get me started on News channels that show up everywhere 24/7 that show news reports over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and and over and over and over and over and over and over...

 

[GeoHikari]

TV nowadays is nothing but marathons of the same shows over and over and over and over, sports over and over and over and over.

And don't get me started on News channels that show up everywhere 24/7 that show news reports over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and and over and over and over and over and over and over...

Same here in my country.

 

[diet_orange]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1966194340478251351

Looks like there's going to be a possible merger between Skydance/Paramount and Warner/Discovery

 

[Jeff]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1966194340478251351

Looks like there's going to be a possible merger between Skydance/Paramount and Warner/Discovery

If this happens, Every Cartoon Network and Warner Bros. cartoons will be ignored by Spongebob, Paw Patrol and whatever crud TeenNick shows.

 

[Questless Knight]

I always said streaming services is a bad idea. First you have to sub to 2-3 diffrent places to be able to watch what you wanna watch because GOD forbid we go to one place. Sure it´s good there is competition but like in the old days we had different video rental store but allot of the time they had the same assortment of movies.


Also just like I said about game pass this is a way for you to now OWN jack shit while you think it´s cheap that you can rent a game and not have to pay 80 euro when your hooked on the shit they will jack up prices introduce comerical that you STILL have to pay for or pay even more top skip it.

Then they gonna charge you even more to get 4k and then price hike again. They just do all of this slowly until you end up pay 5 times more than you would have buying the game.

 

[reila]

Piratechads can't stop winning I guess.

 

[Turbo Kid]

Yeah, I agree with a lot of what's been said. I'm happy to own a decent collection of VHS, blu-rays, and DVDs. And I also do have a few large, external hard drives as well. God bless torrents and the high seas and the few private trackers that aren't a royal pain in the ass to get into.

Streaming was once viewed as this great alternative to TV, now it's just as annoying as TV (if not more so) with too many unnecessary services, ads, stuff being removed or altered all the time, etc. Youtube is getting obnoxious lately too, and frankly that's a shame. For a lot of people (myself included) youtube has essentially replaced TV.

 

[ookamij64]

Yeah, I had a passing interest in Max because of all the animated content. But then they kept removing all of it. The removal of the original Looney Tunes was the straw that broke the camels back as far as I'm concerned

I would agree to be in the same boat. Only reason the household has yet to cancel is because - we got too busy... When I got word of the LT cartoons getting delisted was the one thing that caused me to consider it - as well as several other CN shows I used to enjoy as a kid. The removal of Billy and Mandy also got under my skin so bad it convinced me to start searching for it on DVD if possible. I already had the whole series of Ed, Edd, and Eddy on DVD minus the Big Picture Show as well as Courage recently so not a far off concept to go back to physical media.

I had considered keeping HBO Max for the original ER but I had been okay with clips and never got enough down time to watch the series... It is possible they could be on DVD as well. If nothing else, it would give me a good excuse to do more flea market/secondhand shop sailing in my neck of the woods.