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Apparently HBO Max will do a big update to their app in the next few months due to many complaints about glitches

https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/hbo-...s/?source=home


I follow HBO Max's Twitter feed and I always see them responding to a bombardment of complaints.

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Paging DJariya...


:lol:

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Good. In addition to the play failures, sometimes I open the app on PS4 Pro, and it randomly starts scrolling down the page.

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Next few months for Roku and Playstation. Other platforms will be next year.

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I’ve never ever had problem on Android tv. Never stops and starts. Nothing, ever. Second fav user interface behind Vudu. This really glitches for people?

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It constantly crashes on my PS4. It works ok for me on Roku. I’ve had a few crashes and not able to play episodes of certain shows for a few days. The Roku app is way better than the PS4 though.

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It has the worst interface out of any streaming service, by a mile. I hope they redesign it from top to bottom. And to make the profiles easier to use. With make an actual children’s account or none at all.

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iyo.

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No, general consensus, or they wouldn’t be responding by redesigning it.

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I think the design is a bit clunky, but I don't have that many problems using it. Though I'm not really a scroll-through type of user, where I imagine, people could run into issues.
It's nowhere near as bad as Paramount+.

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I just find, click, play with no issues. Always easy as pie. It’ll never be Vudu, but it’s pretty good. AP is great with character names and real names, song info at bottom if you hit remote. Love that.

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It's slow on my end but otherwise it gets the job done.

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It's glitched for me before using my Android TV. One time was while watching ZS Justice League. Had to watch the rest of the movie through my Comcast box...

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The article doesn’t mention it but it looks like this had to be remastered to HD.
This looks amazing.

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Godzilla vs Kong is back on HBO Max for those who missed it or haven't bought it.

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[QUOTE=whotony;13972968]That's good news. When it was in DCU, it was listed as HD yet was definitely an upconvert at best. Very soft and in some ways blurry. I was hesitant thinking maybe it was that same crappy encode. We will have to give this a watch.

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I have a code for a 30 day trial of HBO Max I got from Cyberpunk 2077. I can't guarantee it works because it says game has to have been purchased last year at release and there were limited codes. If any non-lurker wants to give it a go, let me know, and I can PM the code.

Edit: claimed

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After getting a 4k TV recently I was excited at being able to watch HBO shows in 4k. I was shocked to see none of their originals are in 4k! :(

I can see them ignoring older shows but recent ones there should be no excuse. He'll they even have Game Of Thrones and Westworld on 4K physical.

My giess is that they are working on putting their content in 4K and plan on rolling out a a higher Tier

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Yeah the only thing in 4k is usually new movies. It is sort of annoying that we pay as much for this as Netflix, but they don't provide same quality. Hopefully that changes in near future, maybe with the app upgrades..

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Mostly I don’t have a problem when using the HBO Max app, but every once in a while on the Roku at my girlfriend’s place it takes time to load up, and once in a while I need to close out and restart the app.

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Same here with the HBO Max on Roku(very slow too load).

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It’s always slow to load, but for the first time last night, my wife and I saw an entire movie without that app stopping or glitching out. Unfortunately it was while watching Reminiscence.

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HBO Max is a little clunky on the Roku, but I also have an Apple TV 4K and at least for me it plays and loads very smoothly on that device. But of course that's my most expensive streaming device.

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Yep. HBO Max has been glitchy on Roku from the get-go, but fine on Apple TV.

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On Twitter I just see non stop daily complaints about the HBO Max app. So many are agitated and threatening to cancel.

From what I can tell, the app problematic on game consoles, Fire Sticks and the Roku for some people. Do any of you have issues? The comments I see say it has playback error messages, crashes or won't FF or Rewind properly.

I haven't had any issues on my Roku, although I do own an Ultra and I don't know if it's problematic on the cheaper devices. I've never had issues on my new Apple TV 4K that I bought a few months. In fact, I think that's the best running app.

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Oh yea... I've been having the won't FF / RR properly issue lately.

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Not really. I have a Roku 4 that's getting up there in the years, I find the app navigation to be slow but it works fine once I get a movie or show started, including FF/RR.

I've had more issues with the Apple TV+ App lately (randomly drops audio).

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I use a Streaming Stick Plus, and the only problem I've had is sometime when I scroll "down" (like through an episode list), when I get to the bottom of the list, if I go down one more time, it sometimes kicks me out of the app. But play/pause, FF/RW, no problems that I can recall.

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i use on Android tv and have never had a problem. as i said, second fav app to run and interface, behind Vudu. now, i'm worried why i don't have a problem.

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No problem with a Fire Stick.

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Maybe those who were complaining have shitty internet somewhere out in the boonies? :lol:

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On my PS4 Pro, Apple TV will briefly pause like three times in an episode of Ted Lasso.

HBO Max crashed twice in 40 minutes of a movie today. The audio keeps playing, but the screen gets covered by an “Oops!” message and asks me to restart the app.

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^ During Lasso mine will start fine, then the audio will drop, then I'll just lose all control of the app and the video lags out. Then it all catches up and is out of sync.

A full reboot will fix it as long as I don't go to a different app first.

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But streaming is the future.

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I had trouble watching Ted Lasso on my Roku stick last night. I lost audio and then the screen froze and the Roku rebooted after a few minutes. Everything was fine after the reboot.

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Why is News Of The World on this now?

Isnt that an Appletv+ movie?

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No, it was released by Universal last December for Christmas. You might be thinking of Greyhound which Sony sold to Apple.

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Probably

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For anyone looking for something to watch and missed it on The CW, the entire 1st season of Superman & Lois (15 episodes) is coming to HBO Max on Friday. You have time to catch up. Season 2 won't air until 2022. They just started production today.

Superman & Lois coming to HBO Max Friday

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They have the full season of Superman & Lois on the CW app as well. Often they just have 5 eps. I would imagine watching it on HBOMax is more enjoyable if you have the ad free sub..