Link: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/paramount-plus-hbo-max-combine-which-platform-dies-1236519590/

Here’s an interesting piece about some of the concrete if prosaic realities that Skydance — that ate the larger Paramount and now is set to swallow the yet larger WB-Discovery — will need to contend with to serve its estimated combined 200 million subscribers.

For those of us who’ve experienced the unfortunately incapacity of the Paramount+ application, it’s clear that its tech stack won’t do. However, WB-Discovery HBO MAX isn’t state of the art either.

This idea of Paramount+/HBO Max integration is frankly “too new” to “contemplate how you can merge two streaming services of that size together,” Rayburn told THR. “There’s no way you would know.”

Here’s what we do know: “We … plan to put the two services together, which today gives us a little over 200 million direct to consumer subscribers,” Ellison said last week. “We think that really positions us to compete with the leaders in the space.”