Warner Bros. Streaming Service MAX to Launch in Australia in 2025

Charbel91 on 27/09/2024 - 07:39
Last edited 27/09/2024 - 09:49 by 1 other user

president of APAC at Warner Bros. Discovery said, “In the coming weeks and months there will be many announcements. We will be flexible and diverse as to how we go about it. There will be a mixture of direct service and partnership models. Our goal is to reach the fan base.”

In Australia HBO content has been the pride of Foxtel / Binge’s drama slate, having renewed a multi year deal in 2020 and 2023.

“We have had a long-standing and really important relationship with Foxtel and I think the time has come for us to expand that into the DTC [direct-to-consumer] space.”

Will you be subscribing to yet another streaming service?

(https://tvtonight.com.au/2024/09/max-to-launch-in-australia-…)

Poll Options

  • 3
    Yes!
  • 55
    Hell no!
  • 5
    Help me, I'm poor.
  • 18
    I don't care!
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Comments

  • altomic on 27/09/2024 - 07:45
    +2

    add the poll option - "I don't care"

  • easternculture on 27/09/2024 - 07:49

    Thx Charbs

  • apsilon on 27/09/2024 - 07:50
    +17

    This is exactly why piracy rates are increasing again.

  • mskeggs on 27/09/2024 - 08:10

    I’m travelling so wanted to have access to shows/movies. I found I had subscriptions/legal access to nearly everything I needed, but torrenting it was the only reliable way to get a local copy.
    Then I started to think how much all these subs are costing…

  • onetwothreefour on 27/09/2024 - 08:16
    +2

    Aarrgh

  • djsweet on 27/09/2024 - 08:28
    +6

    Lollll more fragmentation. Great.
    Once it was a single Netflix sub to get you most things. Now you need about 20, and no end in sight.
    How long until someone unifies all these streaming services into channels under one umbrella and we are back to the glory days of Foxtel?

    • mapax on 27/09/2024 - 08:32
      +1

      How long until someone unifies all these streaming services into channels

      Doesn’t Amazon prime video already kind of do that?

    • Ghost47 on 27/09/2024 - 18:10

      Stremio?

  • Clear on 27/09/2024 - 08:30
    +5

    It's like they want everyone to pirate again.

  • ThithLord on 27/09/2024 - 08:32
    -1

    TLOU Season 2 - you'll see me on the seven seas if it's not on Binge

  • Kiro on 27/09/2024 - 08:40

    and there was much rejoicing

  • DingoBilly on 27/09/2024 - 09:01

    It's already available on the high seas.

  • ihfree on 27/09/2024 - 09:10

    We're back to the days of cable.

    I would considerr switching subscriptions monthly. There's no point subscribing to so many services.

    Plenty of options out there now:

    • physical media, second hand, other acquisition
      • optionally adding to a media server
    • tailscale or other mesh provider to share with friends/family
  • sane on 27/09/2024 - 09:24
    +1

    I think the next step is going to be a la carte payment per show. Too much of the subscription race is just worthless filler and the prices are too high to get anyone to subscribe to more than one or two. FFS Netflix seriously think they are going to get $19 pm.

    $1 per hour sounds like it might work.

    • Cheaplikethebird on 27/09/2024 - 09:50
      +1

      I don't think it'll go that way just because then you need to actually provide watchable content instead of filling your library with junk to give the illusion of a huge catalogue.

  • CodeXD on 27/09/2024 - 09:32
    +2

    MAX to launch in Australia in 2025

    I think you should update title to "Warner Bros. streaming service MAX to launch in Australia in 2025"

    MAX by itself doesn't mean a lot ot people in this context.

    • Charbel91 on 27/09/2024 - 09:49
      +1

      Done,thanks

  • Johnsy5252 on 27/09/2024 - 09:42

    Binge seems to have lost BBC content too. 2 questions, how Will I access BBC shows now, I’m hoping SBS will start buying it. Also, how will BINGE stay relevant once HBO content goes too? Back to the high seas perhaps?

    • ukmark on 27/09/2024 - 14:45

      I think Britbox has a lot of the shows that were on BBC First

  • datafellows on 27/09/2024 - 10:07
    +1

    Prime, at least for me, has felt really good recently with its content :)

    I do miss the OG Law and Order that disappeared from their catalog.

  • neoleo on 27/09/2024 - 11:43

    I don't care. I don't pay for any subscriptions either. If and when I want to watch a movie online, just stream from certain website for free :)

  • ode1online on 27/09/2024 - 11:45

    No thanks!

  • freefall101 on 27/09/2024 - 14:12

    There will be a mixture of direct service and partnership models.

    Newcorp recently reorganised Foxtel, there's now "aggregators" (Foxtel and Hubbl) and "streaming services" (Binge, Kayo and Foxtel). So I can see this being a bundling play.

    Foxtel being a base level service or killed entirely, and having the "channels" of Binge, Kayo, Netflix and MAX being options to subscribe to (Netflix is already a bundle option). Pretty much trying to reinvent cable TV but with streaming. Bundling is becoming a big thing in the US and Foxtel already has a footprint for it.

    I hope it fails. I can see why Newscorp has already been trying to sell Foxtel, they don't actually offer anything of value anymore.

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