So many movies and shows aren’t available on ANY service. Or available only on ad-supported, are you saying I MUST watch it with commercial breaks? Seems insane.
I expected RIN: Daughters of Mnemosyne to be in this list given the inclusion of shows like it, but surprisingly, it’s actually on Crunchyroll. I might check it out later.
While HBO Max already paid for the production of these shows, it’s still on the hook for residuals, including so-called back-end payments to cast, crew and writers, based on long-term viewership metrics.
By removing these films and shows, especially the ones HBO Max created rather than licensed, executives can cut expenses immediately. Warner Bros. Discovery has promised at least $3 billion in synergies stemming from the merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery, announced in May.
The content eliminations in total will save “tens of millions of dollars,” according to two people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be named because the finances are private.
content eliminations in total will save “tens of millions of dollars,”
By absolutely demolishing one of the two things HBO has that none of the other streaming platforms do.
The other is the worst UX in history.
I’ve seen slideshows made and operated by children that function better than the HBO Max player.
A technical manual in esperanto is more useful and predictable than whatever the fuck is going on with HBO Max subtitles.
You have to have the dexterity and timing of a master fucking marksman to pause during an intro (to see details like the end still in every week’s Last Week Tonight intro) rather than skip it on the first try.
And that’s not even getting into the toxic sludge of mostly “reality” TV they’re replacing HBO original masterpieces with! 🤦
I wanted to watch 28 days later only to find out it isn’t available anywhere because of some legal dispute with the band that made the music for the movie. Luckily there’s a local video store still open that just has everything so we lucked out. But when we wanted to watch the Weird Al movie, we found out it’s only on Roku. Ok weird, but my parents have one so we’ll watch it with them. Except if you e ever watched anything on Roku’s service you know that it has ads and no option for no ads. Like I don’t even have the option to give them my money. What dumb fucks. I’d rather pirate the thing.
The not being available on any boggled my mind every time. There’s several shows I’ve wanted to watch that just straight up don’t exist anywhere anymore. Like I’m willing to give you money for a month or two so I can watch them or just rent but I can’t. It’s so crazy
So many shows have been modified too, like MASH and Seinfeld have been sped up to fit more commercials and MASH has had a laugh track added. So you can’t even watch them the way they aired unless you can find them in their original format somewhere else…
So many movies and shows aren’t available on ANY service. Or available only on ad-supported, are you saying I MUST watch it with commercial breaks? Seems insane.
I’m mostly an anime watcher, so here’s an unexhaustive list of shows I’m not able to find anywhere on legal streaming [Brazil]:
Now and Then, Here and There
Sailor Moon (Season 5, as well as the entire original DiC dub)
Cross Ange: Rondo of Angel and Dragon
Serial Experiments Lain
Texhnolyze
Revolutionary Girl Utena
Fullmetal Alchemist (2003, not Brotherhood)
Hellsing Ultimate
Bloom Into You
Strawberry Panic
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Almost anything from the 1970s
All peak shows. And while you can say that Lain and Utena are a bit niche, how is no one streaming Sailor Moon or GitS? That’s free money!
I expected RIN: Daughters of Mnemosyne to be in this list given the inclusion of shows like it, but surprisingly, it’s actually on Crunchyroll. I might check it out later.
Mnemosyne is cool, but it’s also a fucking acid trip.
And CW: there is a big nasty rape scene at some point.
It’s runaway corporate greed. HBO Max, or whatever it’s called now, cut a bunch of it’s own shows. The reason is that if they let you stream them, they have to pay residuals .
By absolutely demolishing one of the two things HBO has that none of the other streaming platforms do.
The other is the worst UX in history.
I’ve seen slideshows made and operated by children that function better than the HBO Max player.
A technical manual in esperanto is more useful and predictable than whatever the fuck is going on with HBO Max subtitles.
You have to have the dexterity and timing of a master fucking marksman to pause during an intro (to see details like the end still in every week’s Last Week Tonight intro) rather than skip it on the first try.
And that’s not even getting into the toxic sludge of mostly “reality” TV they’re replacing HBO original masterpieces with! 🤦
I wanted to watch 28 days later only to find out it isn’t available anywhere because of some legal dispute with the band that made the music for the movie. Luckily there’s a local video store still open that just has everything so we lucked out. But when we wanted to watch the Weird Al movie, we found out it’s only on Roku. Ok weird, but my parents have one so we’ll watch it with them. Except if you e ever watched anything on Roku’s service you know that it has ads and no option for no ads. Like I don’t even have the option to give them my money. What dumb fucks. I’d rather pirate the thing.
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The not being available on any boggled my mind every time. There’s several shows I’ve wanted to watch that just straight up don’t exist anywhere anymore. Like I’m willing to give you money for a month or two so I can watch them or just rent but I can’t. It’s so crazy
They should pass a law that any movie/show not currently on any streaming platform is public domain for as long as it’s unavailable.
That means movies would have to release on streaming immediately like they did during the Pandemic and I love that
🏴☠️they exist…. Somewhere. 😈
So many shows have been modified too, like MASH and Seinfeld have been sped up to fit more commercials and MASH has had a laugh track added. So you can’t even watch them the way they aired unless you can find them in their original format somewhere else…
To be fair, Jerry really needs the cash! Otherwise he might have to either work in this millennium or become a mere hectomillionaire again!
It’s not cheap hoarding cars and sponsoring genocides, you know…
Wow