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.
CNN is not relevant to me or my generation. It is a rage bait channel for boomers. Nothing productive is ever discussed on there. It is a giant circle jerk about Trump’s latest outrage. They beat every topic to absolute death. I’m sorry, I have other things to do besides watch a bunch of mannequins find ways to fill 12 hours of air time from a 2 minute news clip.
If you start interrupting my escape from the daily news cycle with useless breaking news alerts, not only will I kill you, I’ll also cancel my subscription to Max.
i wish they had a plan that only had hbo content, most of the time the other stuff just gets in the way and is annoying to scroll past. maybe they could call it “hbo max”
Unfortunately something like “Biden’s college ex-roomate’s best friend’s cousin was caught on camera saying a bad word!” constitutes “Breaking News” for CNN.
Honestly, I don’t care if the news is that WW3 has broken out. Don’t push notifications on me while I’m watching streaming media. I have my own ways of finding out the news.
As a reminder, CNN betrayed Americans way back in the early 1990s by selling the first Bush War, and hasn’t gotten better since.
If I get a notification that interrupts what I am watching on HBO Max I will never use it again
Piracychads keep winning
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.
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.
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The minute I see anything pop up while watching my Bar Rescue I will be cancelling my subscription
This bullshit is going to interrupt me during my 14th rewatch of Entourage?
