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4 hours ago, Ted Lange said:

 

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"Boldly iterating"

Yes, so courageous to revert safely back to what worked just fine for 50+ years and didn't need changing in the first place.

Hollywood yet again inspires me to aspire to live so boldly.

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49 minutes ago, gofuckyourself said:

"Boldly iterating"

Yes, so courageous to revert safely back to what worked just fine for 50+ years and didn't need changing in the first place.

Hollywood yet again inspires me to aspire to live so boldly.

I suspect the grandchild of the guy behind "new" coke was behind this great idea.

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Posted
15 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Taking a chainsaw to your brand like that never made any sense at all to me.

I *get* the idea was that the Max app was the umbrella of WB properties - streaming-only originals produced by HBO, Food Network, Magnolia, Cartoon Network, TBS/TNT/TruTV + live sports, TLC, Discovery, Animal Planet, HGTV, etc. - and they wanted to differentiate it from HBO televisional programming (which aired on Max as well).

It was just dumb and HBO GO was the ideal name all along. 

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Posted
3 hours ago, Js1 said:

I *get* the idea was that the Max app was the umbrella of WB properties - streaming-only originals produced by HBO, Food Network, Magnolia, Cartoon Network, TBS/TNT/TruTV + live sports, TLC, Discovery, Animal Planet, HGTV, etc. - and they wanted to differentiate it from HBO televisional programming (which aired on Max as well).

It was just dumb and HBO GO was the ideal name all along. 

It was another example of the collective stupidity of corporate America.  I’ve seen so much of it in my life.  The same brain disease enabled the Edsel, killed Aunt Jemima, and fast tracked Ishtar.  
 

if they used Home Box Office, which was a perfect brand for their service when it launched, I wonder how many know what a box office is these days.

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3 hours ago, Js1 said:

I *get* the idea was that the Max app was the umbrella of WB properties - streaming-only originals produced by HBO, Food Network, Magnolia, Cartoon Network, TBS/TNT/TruTV + live sports, TLC, Discovery, Animal Planet, HGTV, etc. - and they wanted to differentiate it from HBO televisional programming (which aired on Max as well).

It was just dumb and HBO GO was the ideal name all along. 

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Posted (edited)

Their app is absolute piss. I reinstalled it on my PS5 three times and it still fucks up always. I have to reboot the console to get that steaming pile to function. Already cancelled of course.

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Posted
11 hours ago, mdmost said:

You really want to thrill me. Change it to Cinemax and offer the softcore stuff again. 

Only if they also bring back the hard fake tits and matching tiny areola nipple combo prevalent in the 90s

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Posted
1 hour ago, BurgleBro said:

Only if they also bring back the hard fake tits and matching tiny areola nipple combo prevalent in the 90s

My three favs were naturals:  Beverly Lynne, Susan Featherly, and Brandin Rackley.  

Posted (edited)
2 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

Their app is absolute piss. I reinstalled it on my PS5 three times and it still fucks up always. I have to reboot the console to get that steaming pile to function. Already cancelled of course.

 

That‘s because you’re running it on a ps5.

Never had an issue with their app, aside from a couple minor bugs when they switched the branding/ui. 

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95% of the time, it’s hardware. Blaming the software is just dumb. Yes, some apps suck in general, but running streaming apps on video game consoles isn’t usually that great 

I would bet the % of Max’s viewers using a PS5 is pretty minuscule compared to Roku, Firestick, AppleTV 

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10 hours ago, aggie08 said:

From my experience, AppleTV optimizes pretty much every app the best. I rarely, rarely have an issue with anything.

If I pause a show for a certain period, the AppleTV app freezes up with just an endless spinning wheel with the only way to stop it being to back out of whatever program I'd been watching and then pushing play again. It's a minor inconvenience, but none of the other apps (MAX, Netflix, Disney, Prime) doing that.

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My Apple TV just ended up being a brick for the most part. I snagged one of the Amazon Fire Cubes during one of their big sales and I have to say, it's pretty good. Zero issues. Much better than any Fire Stick I've used.

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Posted
1 hour ago, MissingInAction said:

OK. I'm not getting into an argument over this dumb ass shit.

 

Oh yes you are!!! 

 

You should've bought an Xbox 

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Posted
9 minutes ago, Deej said:

My Apple TV just ended up being a brick for the most part. I snagged one of the Amazon Fire Cubes during one of their big sales and I have to say, it's pretty good. Zero issues. Much better than any Fire Stick I've used.

I switched to Fire Cubes a couple years ago and they have been solid. Only complaint is that occasionally an app update will mess some app login and I have to clear the app cache or reinstall it to fix it. Happens maybe once a year. Otherwise they are very responsive, and I haven't experienced any lockups or lagging, which a lot of TV OSs do. 

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17 minutes ago, Dutchrudder said:

I switched to Fire Cubes a couple years ago and they have been solid. Only complaint is that occasionally an app update will mess some app login and I have to clear the app cache or reinstall it to fix it. Happens maybe once a year. Otherwise they are very responsive, and I haven't experienced any lockups or lagging, which a lot of TV OSs do. 

are the Fire Cubes a lot better than the Fire Sticks? I've always used the sticks and they've worked great

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Yeah, tell me more.  I have a Hisense TV (primarily used for gaming) in my office and the built-in UI is so fucking awful, I never use it for anything but gaming.  

Posted
9 minutes ago, BERT said:

are the Fire Cubes a lot better than the Fire Sticks? I've always used the sticks and they've worked great

Oh god yes, the stick is great for travel and wireless only purposes. The cube has an Ethernet port, so better/stable connection option, has a ton more space and memory, and a larger processor for dealing with the apps. It is a significant upgrade in response times for actions like switching apps, startup time, updates, etc. 

I also recommend checking your Amazon account for hardware trade in options as you send an old echo dot or stick in to get like $25 off a new Cube.

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my one previous complaint about Max was that it was one of those apps where I had to turn the volume up to like 80 to achieve a reasonable volume. However somewhere along the line I guess it was addressed, now it's a more normal 40-55 like most every other app.

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Posted
6 hours ago, Js1 said:

Yeah, tell me more.  I have a Hisense TV (primarily used for gaming) in my office and the built-in UI is so fucking awful, I never use it for anything but gaming.  

Apple TV is the best in my biased opinion. 

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Posted
13 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

am i the last one using roku?  did it come out that roku had nazi affiliations or something?

My 80 year old parents still use it.

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Posted
1 hour ago, henrygandorf said:

am i the last one using roku?  did it come out that roku had nazi affiliations or something?

 

Their privacy policy changes a year ago sealed their fate. I had 5 in the house, all have been replaced with appleTV's.

And for the better, at that. aTV's put out a very nice picture, in whatever the best available format for your tv is. Whether that's HDR, HDR10, or Dolby Vision.

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19 hours ago, YChang said:

Apple TV is the best in my biased opinion. 

Oh I agree. 2 of my 3 TVs have one attached. Just exploring other options than spending $130 for a TV I don’t use that often for anything but gaming 

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Posted
1 hour ago, henrygandorf said:

am i the last one using roku?  did it come out that roku had nazi affiliations or something?

I use rokus on our two older tvs.  I like it more than Samsung’s ui 

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From my experience, AppleTV optimizes pretty much every app the best. I rarely, rarely have an issue with anything.

Except the Hulu app. It sucks on Apple TV and sucks on iOS.

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