CNN Max is likely to evolve over time. Among the features the company will try out are ways of alerting Max viewers to breaking news while they are watching something else on the service, whether it be an HBO series, a Turner Classic Movies selection or an old episode of Food Network’s “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.”
The enshittification of our world continues unabated.
Great, a CNN “Breaking News” update interrupting your movie or show every time Trump pinches off a fresh new loaf on Pravda Social; just what everyone wants!
I have the cbs news app on my phone. Yesterday I got a breaking news push notification informing me that someone caught a big alligator. I can’t imagine the rage I’d be filled with if I was immersed in a show only to be interrupted by a pop up like that.
Or to use the recent hurricane coverage as an example:
- Breaking: Hurricane Project To Hit Florida
- Breaking: Hurricane Projected to be 'Major Hurricane ’
- Breaking: Hurricane Strengthens to Category 3 Ahead of Landfall in Florida
- Breaking: Hurricane Strengths to Category 4 Ahead of Landfall in Florida
- Breaking: Hurricane Makes Landfall in Florida
- Breaking: Hurricane Downgraded to Category 2 Hours After Landfall in Florida
- Breaking: Small City Faces Sever Flooding from Hurricane
- Breaking: Hurricane Crosses into Georgia
Etc. Pop up, pop up, pop up, pop up. Id either stop watching Max or have to ask my doc to prescribe blood pressure meds.
I agree. I can understand interrupting the show for somethings. Earthquake early warning, fine. A celebrity going to rehab, not ok.
But anyways, how’s the weather been in Florida and Georgia lately? All good, I presume?
Yeah it’s just gonna be “breaking news” that turns out to just be fear mongering. Kinda like how pretty much all major news sources have been for the last 20(?) years.
Hard pass.
Both are now owned by Trump defender David Zaslav, the same guy who decided to rename HBO Max to Max. He has a history of reworking networks. https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/david-zaslav-cnn-chris-licht-warner-discovery-1235634424/
Add HBO and CNN to the enshittification list.
Yep. Zaslav is a real piece of shit. He was also behind cancelling Batgirl and Scoob before they were released and taking a bunch of animated shows off of Max but not making them available anywhere else.
I feel like we need a shakeup to copyright law. If you copyright something and place it for sale, you can’t just remove it from sale. And if you do, like in the Zaslav-enshittification, it becomes public domain. Once you create and share something with the world, it isn’t really yours anymore. Sure we should enable creators to monetize that for a reasonable amount of time (~20yr or so, or 10yr after death) but deliberately removing creation from being able to legally be seen again is bullshit. If you wanted to keep your shit secret, it shouldn’t have been copyrighted and published. /rant
I think we should return to the original copyright laws we had at the beginning of the 20th century. You had to register something to copyright it. If you did, you had a copyright for 19 years with an option to renew at the end of those 19 years. After that, it was public domain.
38 years is more than long enough to profit off of a work.
Yep, imagine if the old laws applied and someone could just create a cheap streaming site with all the stuff that went into the public domain after 20 years. You’d have multiple streaming sites with the same content just competing on service and price instead of what exclusive content they had.
HBO used to be my favorite streaming service, I loved it. Now it’s full of reality tv crap. RIP.
That’s why they preemptively dropped “HBO” from the old “HBO Max” moniker.
Get HBO classic for an additional $14.99!
Don’t give them any ideas!
Reminds me of MTV
Among all the other bullshit they pulled, the CEO bragged upon purchase of choking the service with cheap to produce reality show crap.
I had HBO in some form for decades, since I was a kid. They were the best and among the last prestige content creators. I dropped HBOs corpse last year over it. Fuck this late stage capitalism race to the bottom.
Also, if somehow all the shit they pulled upon acquisition wasn’t enough to stop paying them 160 annually a year ago, this would have been.
I’ve had multiple issues with very recently released movies (like Crazy Rich Asians) not playing at all and only giving me pixelated nonsense or the aspect ratios being completely fucked up. Never happened on HBO Max. Only since the forced migration to the new app
My question is, what exactly do they consider ‘breaking news’? These days every news story starts off with ‘breaking news’. If they want to interrupt me so bad, I’ll find whatever I want to watch elsewhere.
Max wants to push alerts on viewers when there is breaking news on CNN.
I could maybe see there being a market for this if the default is not to show them, and there’s an option to receive notification of developments on a specific topic. It’s better than rabidly refreshing a particular topic that you are specially interested in.
Like, say you live in an area with an approaching hurricane, and you wanted to be alerted if there are any new developments on that particular topic.
However, I have a hard time believing that, in the general case, people want alerts popping up.
Piracychads keep winning
Never stopped
It’s honestly gotten so good now and lead me to learn so much more about storage hardware and home servers
Yeah I got 30TB of everything from tv to film to comics to music, haven’t had to rely on a streaming service since dumping Netflix over a decade ago.
True, but not as helpful for the Turner Classic Movies side of the business. A lot of old films are not available via piracy sites because there isn’t much interest in them outside of a niche film buff market. I haven’t looked, but I’m guessing I’m not going to see too many Dead End Kids or Boston Blackie movies on a torrent site, but I might on TCM. And now they’re going to interrupt that with bullshit.
Just did a quick search and there seems to be some material from both in archive.org, even youtube and theres some DEK movies in yts too. In case you are interested.
They were just examples off the top of my head. There might be options for some of those, but I doubt that TCM’s entire library is available for pirate or Internet Archive download.
It depends on how deep you wish to go down the hole.
For me, and especially now that Netflix is ending their DVD service, if I can’t find something old via torrent, I’ll find it on DVD on Amazon, used for as cheap as possible. Then, rip it, and sell it back on Amazon used. Odds are, whoever is buying it from me is doing the same thing I just did.
Well, I sure as shit won’t be subscribing.
My nothing-a-month-plan looks better every day.
glad I cancelled max, seems like they’re mostly a tax shelter at this point
Something that perhaps I missed in the article is if CNN Max will be a new app or will the use the existing Max app? If it’s the latter then I hope we can disable it.
It’s the latter.
The minute I see anything pop up while watching my Bar Rescue I will be cancelling my subscription
