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HBO Max has been dropping content ever sense the Warner merge. I totally believe the plan is to kill it and move everything to a discovery+ combined platform.

phpisthebest 4y ago
My understanding is they are going to Kill Discovery+ in favor of HBOMax as a Person that only has Discovery+ and has no interest in HBOMax I hate they are doing that. Discovery+ is a great low cost streaming service that I get a ton of value from.
- Terretta 4y ago
  We subscribe to both. Discovery+ is our “white noise” streaming source to put on when we feel we need to have “chatter” and “activity” in the background during a WFH workday. Pull up any of the hundred generic home improvement shows, hit play, leave it on all day. Stuff goes on you don’t need to pay hard attention to, or can pay soft attention to if you’re trying to think about something else to trigger a lateral thought, just like looking up from a laptop in a cafe or open plan office. With HBO content, you might accidentally feel you should watch something. Never happens with Discovery+!
  - phpisthebest 4y ago
    While I certainly use it for that as well, there are a few shows that I do like to actually watch and pay attention to. Re-watching Dirty Jobs or Mythbusters, or watching Good eats, or Worst Cooks In America....
  - sdrabing 4y ago
    I've always thought it was strange that so many people just watch TV for noise. Any love for silence anymore?
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    - Apocryphon 4y ago
      Silence is unnatural. Most of humanity's ancestors grew up in the wilderness that was replete with noises.
      - ghaff 4y ago
        There's nature not-silence--or a computer-generated version of same--and there's TV (or even music for the most part). Also tons of sounds in my house even if I don't put something on but mostly want to work without added inputs.
        Terretta 4y ago
        Exactly. Some steady sounds mask the intermittent sounds that are otherwise more interruptive.
      - antihipocrat 4y ago
        A forest on a still night is much quieter than most urban areas.
        Apocryphon 4y ago
        Yes, but not silent.
    - Spivak 4y ago
      For me background noise is good for mind silence so I think people agree with your end but need different means to get there.
    - ghaff 4y ago
      Back when I'd sometimes be on group trips rooming with other people, the nails on blackboard thing for me was when the first thing someone would do in a hotel room was turn on the TV. Admittedly, my brother does it at his house as well.
rhino369 4y ago
The plan isn't to kill it, but they are going to combine them. They are reducing redundancy, getting bad assets off their books, and reducing costs. These streaming services (minus Netflix) are not profitable. Some of the Hollywood trades reported that HBOMax Kids programming isn't highly watched. Let a service with better kid viwership numbers license it instead.

phpisthebest 4y ago

My understanding is they are going to Kill Discovery+ in favor of HBOMax as a Person that only has Discovery+ and has no interest in HBOMax I hate they are doing that. Discovery+ is a great low cost streaming service that I get a ton of value from.

Terretta 4y ago
We subscribe to both. Discovery+ is our “white noise” streaming source to put on when we feel we need to have “chatter” and “activity” in the background during a WFH workday. Pull up any of the hundred generic home improvement shows, hit play, leave it on all day. Stuff goes on you don’t need to pay hard attention to, or can pay soft attention to if you’re trying to think about something else to trigger a lateral thought, just like looking up from a laptop in a cafe or open plan office. With HBO content, you might accidentally feel you should watch something. Never happens with Discovery+!
- phpisthebest 4y ago
  While I certainly use it for that as well, there are a few shows that I do like to actually watch and pay attention to. Re-watching Dirty Jobs or Mythbusters, or watching Good eats, or Worst Cooks In America....
- sdrabing 4y ago
  I've always thought it was strange that so many people just watch TV for noise. Any love for silence anymore?
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  - Apocryphon 4y ago
    Silence is unnatural. Most of humanity's ancestors grew up in the wilderness that was replete with noises.
    - ghaff 4y ago
      There's nature not-silence--or a computer-generated version of same--and there's TV (or even music for the most part). Also tons of sounds in my house even if I don't put something on but mostly want to work without added inputs.
      - Terretta 4y ago
        Exactly. Some steady sounds mask the intermittent sounds that are otherwise more interruptive.
    - antihipocrat 4y ago
      A forest on a still night is much quieter than most urban areas.
      - Apocryphon 4y ago
        Yes, but not silent.
  - Spivak 4y ago
    For me background noise is good for mind silence so I think people agree with your end but need different means to get there.
  - ghaff 4y ago
    Back when I'd sometimes be on group trips rooming with other people, the nails on blackboard thing for me was when the first thing someone would do in a hotel room was turn on the TV. Admittedly, my brother does it at his house as well.

rhino369 4y ago

The plan isn't to kill it, but they are going to combine them. They are reducing redundancy, getting bad assets off their books, and reducing costs. These streaming services (minus Netflix) are not profitable. Some of the Hollywood trades reported that HBOMax Kids programming isn't highly watched. Let a service with better kid viwership numbers license it instead.