We often say that the more streaming evolves , the more it becomes like what it replaced in many home – linear cable and satellite television .
There are unconstipated price growth , the inflow of ads , extra charge for 4 K , workweek - by - week episode freeing , and the influx of live sport , and other hot events .
So , we ’re not all that surprised to hear theMax streaming service(née HBO Max ) in the United States is adding the linear HBO TV channels , enabling viewers to tune into what ’s airing in the former earth .
Because sometimes there ’s comfort in just settling for what ’s on , rather than being confronted by the endless choice of a well - stock streaming subroutine library of the in force and bad of movie theater and television system from tight to a 100 of creation .
It ’s not a foreign concept either . Paramount+ offers live feed from the major CBS channels , while Peacock offers curated trilled channels from across the NBC Universal universe . Max itself hadalready added live news show from CNNand top springy sports from TNT in the last twelvemonth or so .
The new Channels characteristic , which I ’m not seeing at present tense as I ’m on the ad - funded tier , appears as a new row on the Max homepage for customers admit in the test , and it ’ll bring home the bacon 24/7 streams that mirror the cable program offerings .
The five channels let in the flagship HBO channel , HBO 2 ( boast marathons of democratic original programing ) , HBO Signature ( for blockbuster pic and top tier up television ) , HBO Comedy ( for all of those standup special ) and HBO Zone ( which features documentary serial , movies and more ) .
HBO has also suggest there ’ll be more channels incoming , plan to match the interests of individual viewers . Tyler Whitworth , Warner Bros. Discovery ’s chief ware officer , told The Verge : “ We ’re excited about even longer term , about personalising more of that experience and potentially play channel oriented to the specific pastime of a specific drug user . ”
Perhaps that ’ll facilitate the nuisance of theplanned crackdown on password sharingnext year ?
