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Max wants to push alerts on viewers when there is breaking news on CNN. (variety.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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CNN Max is likely to evolve over time. Among the features the company will try out are ways of alerting Max viewers to breaking news while they are watching something else on the service, whether it be an HBO series, a Turner Classic Movies selection or an old episode of Food Network’s “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.”

The enshittification of our world continues unabated.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not quite the same level of convenience as having it available to stream right away though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, not immediately, but once you’ve got your collection, you’re pretty much set. You can watch whatever you want, whenever, wherever.

The only streaming service I have these days is Max and that’s only because it’s part of my cellphone plan and I’m grandfathered into that plan as well.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What you don't get to do, which you could do back when TV was just TV and you happened to catch it on, or you could do when it is added to a streaming service, is discover something you didn't know existed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That’s fair. I’ve discovered some neat old films on Max by just browsing around.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are some decent discovery services you can use with your torrent software.

I use Ombi which my plex users can log into with their Plex id, discover new/old/etc content and then send an automated request to my Radarr/Sonarr software.

Each users permissions can be configured as to the quality/language/etc of the content as well as which types they can request to automatically download and which require my approval first

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But how likely are they to have obscure movies from the 1930s? That was what makes TCM such a gem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah just as in manually downloading them you're gonna need a decent private tracker or two to reliably find some more obscure stuff like that