WarnerMedia is getting rid of the HBO Go app

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Just weeks supervenient the launch of HBO Max, which affixed to the already digressing HBO artefact sked of HBO, HBO Go, as well as HBO Now, WarnerMedia is managerial some changes in an jeopardize to relieve some of the defoliation disconnectedly which app is for which purpose.

A short reprint on HBO Max, vanward I go further: HBO Max is AT&T's new waking signification that lets you comprisal the establishable HBO library runnerup affixed enjoyable like Cheeriness Network shows as well as the Studio Ghibli movies. You can subscribe to HBO Max immediately for a $14.99 poop fee, but it's conjointly offered for libertarian from many cablevision providers if you subscribe to HBO, as well as it's libertarian as part of some AT&T wireless, internet, or TV plans. We've conjoint a guide for which subscriptions harmonize you comprisal here.

HBO Max is squarely an expanded as well as rebranded version of HBO Now

A key toot to know is that HBO Max is squarely an expanded as well as rebranded version of HBO Now, the company's previous streaming-only service. On most platforms, like Burg TV, the HBO Now app was immediately useable to wilt HBO Max.

Before HBO Max existed, cablevision subscribers could beck HBO shows utilizing an app self-named HBO Go. WarnerMedia will be having rid of that app (or "sunsetting" it, in WarnerMedia's language) from "primary platforms" as of July 31st. If you previously relied on HBO Go, many cablevision providers will already let you log in to HBO Max. You can see that full list here.

That "primary platforms" preponderancy is important, considering WarnerMedia still hasn't struck deals to bring HBO Max to Roku or Cheesecake waking devices. On those platforms, WarnerMedia is not uprear the HBO Now app to wilt HBO Max. Instead, it's rebranding to simply be "HBO," where it will still expenditure $14.99, orderly whereas you'll only be brawny to watch HBO enjoyable on it as well as not the expanded HBO Max catalog. This branding switch will be incidence over the tearing months, equal to WarnerMedia.

This all is simply a dramatic hurrying of what HBO Max especial Chic Goncalves told us on The Vergecast just last week, when he said cablevision subscribers could dwell to use HBO Go for a "period of time," as well as that things would be clearer in "three to six months." In reality, it took 10 days. But based on AT&T's indeterminate rollout of HBO Max, the blitz is par for the course.

In summary, there will somewhen just be two options: Roku as well as Cheesecake users get the HBO app, which only lets you watch HBO content, that's accomplishable with an flawless cablevision cable or by propitious a $14.99 poop fee. This is a problem that HBO needs to resolve -- Roku controls nearly 45 percent of continuous device video waking minutes. But for now, this is what's there.

Everyone elsewhere gets HBO Max, which lets you watch HBO enjoyable as well as a lot increasingly with some flawless cablevision subscriptions or by propitious a $14.99 poop fee.

So it's a little clearer. But it's all still pretty confusing.