So today is August 1. The HBO Now App on my Fire TV has disappeared, replaced with an App Titled HBO, as Joe predicted. However, when I click on it, it still opens HBOMax, with all of their extra content (which I have a right to access via my HBO subscription on Xfinity).
Now, this is what I was told would happen when I side loaded HBO Max, that the Max App itself would not not show on the Fire TV menu, but that I would still be able to access the Max content, once I registered through my Cable provider. So far, on day one, it does seem possible to bypass Amazon’s black out on HBO Max. We shall see what happens as the month progresses. On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 8:51 AM Joe Hass <hassgoc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Okay, so I'm going to take a stab at this based on this article: > https://help.hbonow.com/Answer/Detail/11, which is as clear as mud. > > If you subscribe to HBO Max but use the HBO Now app, on August 1, your HBO > Now app will become HBO. At that point, you'll be tied down to basically > only the HBO stuff and not all the extras. To get all the extras, you'll > have to use the HBO Max app, which is what's not on Roku or Amazon. > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 10:44 AM Ben Combee <ben.com...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have a HBO Max subscription directly with HBO -- I got the annual >> deal before launch. I can use those credentials to log into HBO Now >> on my Roku TVs. >> >> On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 9:14 PM PGage <pga...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > I noticed that, but the original instructions I got seemed to suggest >> that we would still be able to access the Max content even without going >> through the HBO Now App, but not sure how to do that. >> > >> > On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 6:45 PM Joe Hass <hassgoc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> Short answer: no; on July 31, the other apps are being shut down. >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 8:43 PM PGage <pga...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> I have been streaming HBOMax on Fire Stick following instructions >> widely available online to work around this (Amazon is blocking the Max >> App, not the content). But even so I access it through the HBO Now App, not >> sure from this article if I will still be able to do this after July 31 >> >>> >> >>> On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 3:01 PM Joe Hass <hassgoc...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>>> >> >>>> A pox on the lot of them. >> >>>> >> >>>> >> https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/hbo-max-peacock-roku-amazon-streaming-1234703977/ >> >>>> >> >>>> Sidebar: I have given up on Apple and will not be giving them >> another penny after a crazy situation involving poorly-integrated >> two-factor authentication. I'll shift everything over to Windows, Plex, >> Google Drive, and Android TV. >> >>>> >> >>>> If you'd have told me ten years ago that I would completely abandon >> Apple, the company that made me into what I am today professionally, I'd >> have thought you were nuts. 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