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HBO Max and Paramount Plus will merge into a single streamer under Skydance
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billmason startrek.website billmason@startrek.website
Joined: 2026-01-16
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Link: https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/1005696/hbo-max-paramout-plus-merge-skydance

Paramount Max, here we (eventually) come. Unless this whole financial house of cards implodes first, of course.
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ValueSubtracted Moderator ValueSubtracted@startrek.website
Joined: 2023-06-11
#2 · Quote Reply

It doesn't really make a lot of sense to run multiple streamers. It's kind of wild that Disney is still keeping Hulu alive, despite a heavy degree of integration.

It's a pretty big project, though - could take years.
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katy ✨ piefed.blahaj.zone cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-06-06
#3 · Quote Reply

exactly why i grabbed a magnet of the entire star trek universe when this all kicked off
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David_Eight lemmy.world David_Eight@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-10-13
#4 · Quote Reply

I can't wait to see how much money they waste changing the name 5 time just to call it HBO max again lol
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Amuro_eat lemmy.blahaj.zone Amuro_eat@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2026-08-20
#5 · Quote Reply

🏴‍☠️
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IrateAnteater sh.itjust.works IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-09-07
#6 · Quote Reply
ValueSubtracted wrote:
It doesn't really make a lot of sense to run multiple streamers. It's kind of wild that Disney is still keeping Hulu alive, despite a heavy degree of integration. It's a pretty big project, though - could take years.

I'm guessing that they are more concerned about losing Hulu subscribers in the effort to transition them to Disney+. Outside the US, Disney and Hulu have been combined for years now, so the actual effort required from Disney would be near zero.
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veee lemmy.ca veeesix@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-06-09
#7 · Quote Reply

Introducing HBO Go Now Max Sky+!
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Mantzy81 aussie.zone Mantzy81@aussie.zone
Joined: 2025-03-09
#8 · Quote Reply
katy ✨ wrote:
exactly why i grabbed a magnet of the entire star trek universe when this all kicked off

Magnet for science...
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treadful lemmy.zip treadful@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2023-06-13
#9 · Quote Reply
veee wrote:
Introducing HBO Go Now Max Sky+!

Now for a low low price of $49.99/mo!
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roofuskit lemmy.world roofuskit@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-11-03
#10 · (edited) Quote Reply
Mantzy81 wrote:
Magnet for science...

How do they work?
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roofuskit lemmy.world roofuskit@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-11-03
#11 · (edited) Quote Reply
ValueSubtracted wrote:
It doesn't really make a lot of sense to run multiple streamers. It's kind of wild that Disney is still keeping Hulu alive, despite a heavy degree of integration. It's a pretty big project, though - could take years.

Hulu is on a staggered wind down schedule. Until relatively recently they didn't own 100% of it and so were keeping it alive to placate Comcast so they could buy it from them.
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A_Union_of_Kobolds lemmy.world A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-09-20
#12 · Quote Reply
katy ✨ wrote:
exactly why i grabbed a magnet of the entire star trek universe when this all kicked off

Yeah I need to fix my PC and do that
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Mantzy81 aussie.zone Mantzy81@aussie.zone
Joined: 2025-03-09
#13 · Quote Reply
roofuskit wrote:
How do they work?

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EmpathicVagrant lemmy.world EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-11
#14 · Quote Reply
treadful wrote:
Now for a low low price of $49.99/mo!

129.99 without ads, 219.99 for sports channels included.
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jerakor startrek.website jerakor@startrek.website
Joined: 2024-04-21
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ValueSubtracted wrote:
It doesn't really make a lot of sense to run multiple streamers. It's kind of wild that Disney is still keeping Hulu alive, despite a heavy degree of integration. It's a pretty big project, though - could take years.

Hulu is the only one I wish they would keep because logging in to Disney to watch Alien and ESPN still seems really wrong to me. I would prefer the Disney app be 100% kid friendly and Hulu be for everything else.
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fubarx lemmy.world fubarx@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-06-07
#16 · Quote Reply

Some day, HBO, Paramount, Discovery, Hulu, ESPN, Disney, and all the other streamers and over-the-air networks will join to offer a single price bundle, and then we'll have...
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Corgana startrek.website Corgana@startrek.website
Joined: 2023-06-11
#17 · Quote Reply

Paramount is objectively the better brand, going with SkyDance feels like a waste.
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ohulancutash feddit.uk ohulancutash@feddit.uk
Joined: 2025-02-16
#18 · Quote Reply
veee wrote:
Introducing HBO Go Now Max Sky+!

They’d have to buy Sky first
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