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HBO Max launching in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Spain and Andorra on October 26th
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Yes please.
HBO Nordic (the current solution) is an awful & shallow application with terrible bitrate and image quality. Also there's no PS5 app for HBO Nordic (only PS4). I assume there is a PS5 app for HBO Max.
HBO Nordic (the current solution) is an awful & shallow application with terrible bitrate and image quality. Also there's no PS5 app for HBO Nordic (only PS4). I assume there is a PS5 app for HBO Max.
Pretty much. UK/IRL has been treated like a bloc in contract negotiations.
The UK situation is frustrating. There are some HBO exclusives that come over to Sky, but others are locked away. It'd be a no-brainer for me to subscribe if it were available.
could be a simple name change at worst though, so here's hoping it's actually an upgrade.
Am i right in thinking a lot of HBO content is shown on Sky Atlantic in the UK or are we missing out a lot?
Yeah everyone in the nordics knows that HBO Nordic is an abomination. So this is good news as I've read that the video quality should be very much improved. I'm curious about how much content we'll get, though.
Weird. It was announced to come to The Netherlands at the end of 2021 (which I thought was strange since their deal with Ziggo lapses on Jan 1st 2022 iirc), but NL isn't included in either of the listed batches. Not the 2021 one nor the 2022 one.
Sky Atlantic is about the only thing Sky have going for them outside of Sports, HBO must have been paid quite a lot to extend that deal, seems they aren't keen now but I think Sky will be desperate to hold onto it so I seriously doubt they'll renegotiate an earlier exit. Silly HBO.
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Anything will be better than the HBO Nordics app we use in Spain, but I've heard nothing but horror stories of HBO Max, so weeeeeell seeee
It's because of SKY, they always had the HBO/WB stuff exclusively for them
Yeah it's really annoying. If I could access HBO Max I would be completely fine in canceling Sky
The Sky original shows all seem pretty naff and visually are extremely similar looking. It's very strange but I can see a clip of a show and instantly tell whether it's a Sky Original show.
That being said, Save Me and Save Me Too are phenomenal.
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Yeah, haven't really watched them except Chernobyl which was co-produced with HBO. That was great though.
The TV Production deal was $250 million.
The time they extended the HBO license deal to 2020 was £275 million. Can't find any info on the latest agreement to 2025 but I would guess it's higher than 275 million.
Yeah, haven't really watched them except Chernobyl which was co-produced with HBO. That was great though.
The TV Production deal was $250 million.
The time they extended the HBO license deal to 2020 was £275 million. Can't find any info on the latest agreement to 2025 but I would guess it's higher than 275 million.
Sky absolutely suck as well. If you don't have them as your tv provider, you can watch HBO stuff if you subscribe to NowTV, which Sky also own, who will charge you extra for 1080p over 720p. In 2021. With no 4K at all.
They all suck with regards to HD, why you have to pay extra for basic HD is robbery, let alone UHD.
What's silly about HBO/Warner cashing the enormous cheque Sky wrote them versus taking a risk on a VOD service that may or may not succeed?
True but in hindsight maybe not since they want to get out of the deal now but different management, different time, too early before HBO Max started but they old deal did run until 2020 so they could have seen it out before extending for 5 years but like you say, huge chunk of money versus a maybe with a HBO Max. I didn't realise the timelines were that close.
I would like to know that as well, HBO Nordic seemed to have every HBO show + some other non HBO shows, what makes HBO Max different?
Pretty sure other countries have local TV services they could sell their stuff to piecemeal too if they felt like it. Not sure what is different about the UK.
Most of the other countries involved already have an HBO service. HBO have always sold their content to the UK because Sky is willing to pay big bucks for it.
Yeah, Time Warner/AT&T were absolutely stupid to rely on the licensing model for the European market.
"HBO is not available in the UK because they don't make HBO available in the UK" isn't a great explanation.
AT&T was in huge debt after acquiring Time Warner so I suppose licensing their content to Sky helped offset the costs of trying to be a new market player in European territories where Sky has a market share.
It was still an incredibly stupid idea of AT&T to license their HBO and Max Original content to Sky.
A ton more content, it also should mean that WB movies releasing in 2021 are going to be there on the same day as in theaters and in 2022 45 days after releasing on theaters.
checking the website there's a major lack of information about devices it'll support, the resolution and if they'll have HDR, and nothing really concrete about content, and no pricing.
Basically says "if you have hbo nordic, that'll transfer to hbo max on the 26:th" which makes me almost think, it'll be a simple rebrand and nothing else...
Basically says "if you have hbo nordic, that'll transfer to hbo max on the 26:th" which makes me almost think, it'll be a simple rebrand and nothing else...
This would be great, but I highly doubt they'll do this for Sweden/Nordics, or most of Europe.
Well they are working with OCS for most of their original stuff. As long as there's a contract and/or both sides are happy Max ain't going to land in France for better or worse.
And when I say worse I'm talking about AV quality unfortunately.
I hope they keep the same bitrate from the US. Nordics go at like 3Mb/s while HBO Max reaches around 7 with peaks of 13 for the same 1080p content.