Live-Streamed CNN Channel With New Shows Set to Debut on Max
variety.com
You might call it CNN Headline News — for the streaming era. Warner Bros. Discovery plans to unveil a 24/7 live-streamed news service called “CNN Max” on September 27, and indicat…

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.

  • kaitco@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    It depends on how deep you wish to go down the hole.

    For me, and especially now that Netflix is ending their DVD service, if I can’t find something old via torrent, I’ll find it on DVD on Amazon, used for as cheap as possible. Then, rip it, and sell it back on Amazon used. Odds are, whoever is buying it from me is doing the same thing I just did.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      21·
      10 months ago

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

      • kaitco@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        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.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          11·
          10 months ago

          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.

          • kaitco@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            10 months ago

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

          • Rootiest@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            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

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
              1·
              10 months ago

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

              • Rootiest@lemm.eeEnglish
                2·
                10 months 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