TL;DR
- HBO Max is switching over to its Max branding in the present day.
- The brand new service can be including a ton of contemporary 4K content material to the platform.
- All Warner Bros. films launched this 12 months and sooner or later can be accessible in 4K UHD on Max.
HBO Max will formally swap over to the brand new Max branding in the present day. The repacked service from Warner Bros. Discovery is not going to solely add content material from Discovery Plus however may even increase its library of 4K films and TV exhibits.
The corporate introduced in a press launch that the brand new Max will supply eight instances extra movies and episodes in 4K than HBO Max. After all, these advantages have been put below the next pricing tier — $19.99/ month or $199.99/12 months for the “Final” plan. This can embrace programming corresponding to Recreation of Thrones, The Final of Us, Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Darkish Knight trilogy, The Matrix movies, and extra.
HBO Max provided fairly restricted 4K content material, with a lot of the titles capped at 1080p. So the extra 4K content material and rising help for extra high-quality streams sooner or later is a welcome improve, even when it’s accessible solely to the highest-paying clients.
“Max will supply greater than 1,000 movies and episodes in 4K at launch, and we’ll be including extra each month as we transfer ahead,” mentioned Sudheer Sirivara of the International Know-how Platform at Warner Bros. Discovery.
Max may even help Dolby Imaginative and prescient, Dolby Atmos, and HDR 10 codecs
Max may even help Dolby Imaginative and prescient and HDR 10 for content material that helps the tech. Dolby Atmos audio may even characteristic in choose content material.
Standard HBO titles corresponding to Succession, The Undoing, the Watchmen sequence, Sharp Objects, and Chernobyl may even be accessible in an amplified expertise, together with 60fps content material.
Starting June 7, films like The Darkish Knight, Harry Potter films, and Avatar: The Means of Water will have the ability to stream in 4K UHD, HDR 10, Dolby Imaginative and prescient, and Dolby Atmos on the Final Advert-Free tier. Nostalgia tiles like The Wizard of Oz, Casablanca, Goodfellas, and Singin’ Within the Rain may even be a part of the 4K household.
Moreover, all Warner Bros. films launched this 12 months and sooner or later can be accessible in 4K UHD once they arrive on Max following their theatrical home windows.
The corporate additionally clarified that present HBO Max subscribers will nonetheless have entry to their current plan for no less than six months following the Max launch on Could 23.
