HBO Max

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HBO Max is coming on March 26th. This cant be the best for Sky although you get the very very basic pack for free with sky although its a bit limited as I think its made for Sky to try and negate not paying for Sky Movies.

We have been looking to get rid of our Sky Stream and this will be the final nail for it, we only use it to watch HBO stuff on occasion and with the HBO Max instead we can drop in/out when we want to binge something.

HBO Max Service Prices and Features

Basic with Ads (£4.99/month) (The free one with a Sky Sub)

  • Stream on 2 devices at once

  • Full HD video resolution

  • Not all movies included

Standard with Ads (£5.99/month)

  • Stream on 2 devices at once

  • Full HD video resolution

  • 30 downloads (limits apply)

Standard (£9.99/month)

  • Stream on 2 devices at once

  • Full HD video resolution

  • 30 downloads (limits apply)

Premium (£14.99/month)

  • Stream on 4 devices at once

  • 4K UHD & Dolby Atmos as available

  • 100 downloads (limits apply)

TNT Sports (£30.99/month)

  • Stream on 2 devices at once

  • 4K UHD & Dolby Atmos as available

  • Live football, rugby, tennis, and more in 2026

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Will be interesting to see how this goes. Currently have TNT Sports through Discovery+ which assume will switch over to HBO.

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I’m looking forward to this but I’ll have to decide what goes to make way for it. I have too many TV subscriptions already.

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I will probably drop in and out with a sub.

Interestingly Sky phoned me on Monday trying to get me to lock into a contract with the Stream box before I had seen the announcement. I have them calling back tonight but I think it will be rip for them now.

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My friend sent me this so looks like it’ll get some money worthwhile.

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Interesting it doesnt mention Netflix although its already part of it.

They only give you the most basic ad version of each (HBO being even more limited with no films) although we did bump our netflix up to the 4k version so it reduced its bill a bit.

Those will possibly only come with the ultimate tv pack which is £22 (24 month) / £25 currently and one quirk I recall originally with the stream, if you say pay for the upgrade to Netflix 4k (or any app with 4k) to actually use it on the Stream with the netflix app you have to pay sky an additional £5 a month even if you are not intending to watch anything Sky in UHD.

I wonder if they will let you upgrade disney+ (or HBO when it comes out) as some bundle banks dont let you upgrade.

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I’m happy with the ad versions tbh, you learn to ignore them.

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I cant stand ad’s, my time is worth more, it reminds me of the terrible old days of live TV with ad breaks.

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Gives me time to scroll :joy:

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Yeah adverts are a no go for me. I also want 4K. So I always have to get the packages that aren’t included in these things.

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I feel like I already have too many TV subscriptions. Get Disney+ through Tesco, just got 9 months free of Paramount+ from Sky VIP, and pay for Netflix advert tier, as well as Apple TV (currently with the student offer so £5.99 along with Apple Music). I may start to alternate between Netflix, Apple TV, and HBO Max. Adverts on Netflix don’t bother me. They aren’t long and sometimes I don’t get any at all anyway

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Adverts + no 4K or Atmos makes any lower subs a no go for me but I do have a really really nice tv and hate live/air tv because of the ads.

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Does anyone know if Discovery+ is staying separate, or if they’re rolling those shows into HBO Max as well? Also - things like the new ‘tlc’ channel (that shows the new Mock the Week), will that be on HBO Max or Discovery+

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It’ll stay though will be a slight shell of itself.

I think they are launching their own content globally at some point.

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They probably should advertise TLC a bit more. It is not a new channel, just rebranded with a change of focus. But most people won’t have a clue that Mock the Week is on there, along with it actually being a free show on Discovery+