HBO Max has ceased to existat least in the early regions. Now it’s Max’s turn; Beyond the name change, the company is a new streaming platform that has revamped its service with more content and a new and better app.

Change should not surprise us. Warner.Discovery, a company born after the merger of Warner Bros. and Discovery, announced that it would leave the HBO Max name behind in the first months of 2023. platform would be ‘Max’It’s a radical decision, but at least it has an explanation for the company: Max includes the entire catalog of HBO Max series and movies, as well as the Discovery+ catalog, a service that no longer exists.

Max arrived in the United States in May 2023 and now almost a year later It also reached Latin America. We tested the service and tell you everything that has and hasn’t changed.

HBO Max is gone, now it’s Max’s turn. What should we do to use the service?

I won’t lie to you, the decision to ditch a well-known name like ‘HBO’ is surprising to me, but the company claims there’s a good reason: it’s This isn’t just a name change, Max is a completely new app. In order to access the renewed service, a new application must be downloaded, whose experience is significantly superior to the HBO Max application.

And this is no small detail. When HBO Max was born and its app was released, it was full of small but annoying bugs and glitches that negatively affected the experience of watching content (I remember subtitle syncing in particular being a notable issue). Max emerges as a more feel-good app that performs quite well in almost all of my tests so far. It’s a better user experience overall.

I say that on almost all my devices because although on mobile the experience was pretty smooth and I didn’t experience any issues, logging into my account on Smart TV was quite complicated, perhaps because I’m registered through a carrier and I don’t use an email and password to log in. but this probably startup problem This will be resolved in the future.

If you already have an HBO Max account, using Max is really easy. When accessing HBO Max from a mobile device, The app invites you to download the new ‘Max’ appan invitation accompanied by the message: “HBO Max is now called Max.”

When you sign in to HBO Max with the account you use with HBO Max, you’ll see this: everything is just as you left it:

• Protects max. same users Created in HBO Max
• list of TV series and movies The ones you added to your favorites (to see later) are also available in Max

Actually, Max also remembers the last episode of a TV series he watchedso I can continue where I left off. The catalog is organized into sections, including TV Shows, Movies, Boys & Girls, and a tab dedicated to HBO original content.

What TV series and movies are available on Max?

The application is very good and Works fluently on my Android mobile phone, Smart TV and even on my old (but faithful) mid-range tablet that I only use to watch TV, movies, and YouTube in bed. But the most important thing about a streaming service is its content, and luckily Max has an excellent and diverse catalogue.

Max, like HBO Max back then A service with a very attractive catalogespecially for fans of award-winning television series. After all, Max has series such as ‘The Sopranos’, ‘Game of Thrones’, ‘Big Little Lies’, ‘Curb your Enthusiasm’, ‘The Last of Us’, ‘The White Lotus’, ‘The Wire’, ‘Barry’. exists’, ‘The Big Bang Theory’, ‘Veep’ and many more. I could go on and on, but I think these examples are enough.

It will also be the service where the new Harry Potter series will be available in the future.

In terms of cinema, Max’s catalog is also It’s full of great movies ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy, ‘Dune’, ‘Asteroid City’ and numerous films based on DC comics, including ‘Justice League’ and ‘Aquaman’. There is also a wide range of animated series for kids, such as the classic ‘Dexter’s Laboratory’ and ‘Peppa Pig’ for the little ones, or ‘Primal’ and ‘Rick and Morty’ for older children.

The biggest difference between the Max catalog compared to the HBO Max catalog is this: Includes all Discovery+ series and showsi.e. lots of variety shows, reality shows, supernatural shows, crime investigation shows and of course lots of sharks and others.

Where can Max be used?

Renewed streaming service Now available in many countries in Latin America and the CaribbeanIncluding Argentina, Aruba, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Dominican Republic and Uruguay.

Max will come to Spain in Marchbut there are still some questions about its launch; most importantly, whether the platform will accept the 50% lifetime discount offer it offered at the launch of HBO Max in 2021. Warner.Discovery has decided to honor this promotion in Latin America, so we can expect them to do the same in Spain, at least in theory. We will be able to find out in a short time.

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