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the film was abysmal tbh but it was amusing and only 33 min

xxp Wondering did he also shill Fyre in a self-described "random tweet"?

so there's a second season of Homecoming on Prime without Julia Roberts?

yep, with Janelle Monae in the lead.
I didn't care enough for season one to get through the third episode; season two is getting worse critical response.

i enjoyed s1, not sure if i'll bother with s2

I like season 2 so far, but I don’t know if it was necessary. I really loved s1.

i can't remember wtf happened in season 1 at all.

I could have sworn I got a push notification from my cell provider that I can get free Quibi, but I haven't bothered following up because I don't want to watch that shit on my phone. Or at all, really.

i guess i should do that. T-Mobile is offering, I think, assuming it hasn't already expired

i can't remember wtf happened in season 1 at all.

― akm, Tuesday, May 26, 2020 1:19 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

that's exactly what bobby cannavale wants!

I forgot he was even in this show. I watched the recap of season 1 the other day and wondered if I'd been so high the night I'd binged it I'd managed to not retain anything, because almost nothing was familiar.

Didn't realize HBO Max was going to have Looney Tunes. Immediately vaults it to the top of the streaming service rankings.

Get high, watch Duck Amuck and then The Searchers - beat that, Netflix

dethpicable

Signed up for HBO Max two months ago. Really disappointed to not find out until launch day that it won’t be available on Roku - our only streaming option. What a joke. I hope this blows up in their faces. Not only do we have to pay for multiple streaming services, we also have to pay for multiple streaming devices to keep up?

That sucks, I was going to replace my piece of shit Apple TV with a Roku soon.

I guess I have to buy an Apple TV now? I mean, I guess that’s the cheaper option as opposed to buying a new gaming platform. Frustrating.

Yeah I was wondering about tha lack of Roku. (I'm not entirely fussed, I ended up with HBO via AT&T being my cell provider so HBO Max is just a free addon as far as I'm concerned.) Various articles about it today, including this:

https://www.cnet.com/news/warnermedia-has-hbo-max-apps-ready-for-amazon-and-roku/

I did appreciate all the Twitter chatter about how deep the various hubs actually are on the service -- namely, not entirely:

https://io9.gizmodo.com/before-subscribing-to-hbo-max-nerds-might-want-to-take-1843702700

That said, TCM and all the classic WB cartoon stuff being in place = works for me!

xxp - I had a NVidia Shield TV that worked great before a power surge blew it up.

That sucks, I was going to replace my piece of shit Apple TV with a Roku soon.

― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z),

come on

Both of my current gen Apple TVs have been incapable of maintaining a decent wifi speed. One couldn’t even maintain non-buffering speeds over Ethernet. They also need restarting more than any streaming device I’ve owned.

Never owning another AppleTV.

we watched the first ep of The Great tnite -- fun!

I don't know, I've had my share of connection problems but I don't think that it's been about Apple TV. I had to have somebody come in and make a direct cable connection to the room I was viewing in, that made a difference

i used a plug-in wifi extender from netgear and it helped immensely. I don't get how these things work (they leverage the power circuit in your house); prior to this I always had buffering issues with appletv and wifi. but I had worse problems with the Roku I had (which was older).

I have an Orbi, the main unit is in the living room plugged into the modem. The satellite is in the bedroom, ethernet connected to my AppleTV there. My thinking is that the satellite is getting a better signal however it does and by using the ethernet cable there the AppleTV isn't using wifi at all.

but I'm out at the inlaws now and appleTV is on WIFI and it's fine.

ORBI uses 5G (!) to connect the main unit to the satellite so it should be a very fast connection between them. from there a wired connection should give you no speed penalty - so yes, a good solution. (i have an ORBI setup too and like it a lot)

my apple tv works flawlessly

orbi uses 5GHz range, not 5G iirc

5g fuck! Why didn’t anybody warn me. Gonna rip that shit out and just run Ethernet everywhere.

oh yeah, the only apple tv issue I ever had was when I got the 4k one and the remote seemed unresponsive and some videos would freeze up

it turns out it was my older hdmi cable not handling 4k well, and all the error correction going on was overloading it!

lol yes sorry - not 5G

HBO Max is really clunky. I thought they might spend the time to improve on what HBO Now was, but it's basically the same thing with more content. And a lot of the content that's there isn't presented well compared to other services.

(But Looney Tunes)

I guess the clunkiness won't bother me, it's already sub-optimal to have to only watch on my phone or laptop. Figure I'll give them a few more weeks to hopefully iron their shit out with Roku, or else I'll end up canceling. I know it all comes down to money, but at least Disney had the good sense to hammer these deals out before launch.

Early to tell yet, but this HBO Max launch feels like a relative dud, compared to Disney+ at least. Even aside from shutting off roughly 70% of their market by not finalizing deals with Roku and Amazon, I keep reading complaints about how little material are in the hubs, as Ned noted upthread. Apparently the DC stuff on offer is way less than what people had expected. Other than the scattered folks excited for Looney Tunes or Studio Ghibli, I'm reading more complaints about what the service is lacking than any sort of excitement. Doubt this is the narrative they hoped for after launch.

only thing that got me slightly interested was hearing they have a lot of alan partridge content

I feel the exact opposite, we just got HBO Max and there's an absolute treasure trove of stuff I'd want to watch on here relative to Disney+. (But we get it free with AT&T internet, I wouldn't pony $15/mo for it.)

Same. TCM and Looney Tunes plus HBO content beats the shit out of D+

Hold up, I have ATT Internet (1000), does that mean I get HBO Max? What is the difference between HBO Max and HBO Now? Also, I have a Roku smart TV, does that mean even if I get it for free I ... can't watch it? Where do they expect me to watch HBO Max, on my computer?

Yes to all that for now, in essence. But at the least, yeah, you should be able to get HBO Max for free.

So weird, I'm trying to sign in via my PS4, but it's not letting me. To customer service I go!

OK, ATT confirms yes, but their sign-in system is currently broken.

I was hoping my mobile plan would qualify me, but no dice

Mission accomplished, got it working. I'm not sure I even would have known this was a service were it not for ILX (even though I get it for free, or at least "free"). There's some good stuff, most conspicuously a ton of stuff I have ... not legally downloaded over the past several months.

Just got a note from Comcast that I get free Peacock. Any good stuff on there?

37 seasons of Law and Order SVU

Ha I am just seeing your dn

I am taking full credit for this

Mythic Quest is like a big budget 2009 web-series.

I love it

it's rapidly improving after the second episode

That show doesn't really get much better or worse.

As for HBO Max, it's pretty obvious that all of these streaming services surely know how to better optimize and organize their interface, they just for whatever reason choose not to. For example, down on the bottom of the start screen they have a handful of thematic groupings (like TCM, or Ghibli, or Looney Tunes, etc.). Click on TCM and they give you (iirc) the option to see featured titles vs. A-Z, but A-Z is not even remotely comprehensive. That is, they'll have Babe in the mix, but if you want to see Babe 2 you have to search for it. Similarly, along with Casablanca and Seven Samurai and the like there are seemingly random '80s movies like Police Academy, but if you want to see Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (because, duh, of course you do) you have to search for that separately, too. And then, just searching for other stuff, I see literally *zero* Mad Max movies, which is a problem. None of the Matrix movies are up there, none of the Christopher Nolan movies, only a couple of Kubrick's ... hopefully this will all work out, maybe they're just waiting for rights to revert before declaring "mine!"