Max's support pages acknowledge that it's showing 6 minutes of ads per show, up from 4 minutes last year. Ads now run in the middle of HBO programming.
  • MimicJar@lemmy.worldM
    18·
    3 days ago

    The crazy part to me is that the ad tier still costs money.

    If you pay $10 you still have ads. Why would you pay AND watch ads? That truly is just cable reinvented.

    • Guy Ingonito@reddthat.com
      5·
      3 days ago

      Absolutely agree with you. Especially when there are services like Tubi, Roku, Pluto which are f r e e

      They have good stuff on them too. Pluto has multiple channels dedicated just to star trek

  • Brkdncr@lemmy.world
    7·
    3 days ago

    Think of how many meetings had to have happened to redo their brand/name as much as they have already.