Wondering what exactly HBO Max is, how to get it, and why there are so many products with 'HBO' in the name? We've got answers
It’s the only place you can watch Friends now. Photo: NBC And then there was HBO Max. Following last year’s launches of Apple TV+ and Disney+, plus this spring’s Quibi rollout, AT&T–owned WarnerMedia has now jumped into the streaming wars with its vision of video utopia. While HBO Max will offer a ton of content — about 10,000 hours of movies and series at launch — the buildup to its debut has led to some audience confusion.
• HBO Go is the streaming, on-demand version of HBO. Introduced in 2010, Go has all of HBO’s original programs, plus its ever-changing catalogue of big feature films, and most can be streamed the minute they debut on linear HBO. Beyond whatever current shows and movies are in rotation on HBO, Go also includes access to most of the network’s massive library of original series — everything from The Sopranos to Barry.
What sorts of movies and TV shows will I get on HBO Max? Anything HBO is on Max: The latest episode of Insecure, the new movies that drop every Saturday, the library of old HBO series such as Sex and the City and The Wire. Max adds on hundreds of movies and some very well-known TV sitcoms . There are big movie franchises, too, including all of the Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings movies and, within a year, every Batman and Superman movie since 1980.
But as of now, there’s one big caveat: HBO Max has not done distribution deals with Roku or Amazon. If you subscribe to HBO through those companies, you do not get free access to Max . More problematic, if you use a Roku player or Amazon’s Fire TV devices to stream various apps — including HBO Go and HBO Now — you can’t even download the HBO Max app at all.
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