Originally published at: Warner Bros. Discovery will try interrupting your streaming movie on Max with CNN news alerts | Boing Boing
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This will last about 2 seconds…
Honestly, are all the streamers just purposefully making the stupidest choices possible, because they think that people will take it?
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Maybe it’s just a Producers-style investment scam?
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The majority of them, but not all…
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Sounds plausible, tho.
Starz is kind of smart here…
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Apple tv is still reasonably priced as well ($6.99/mo)
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Jack Warner was, from everything I’ve ever heard, an absolute garbage barge of a human being. But he liked movies, and he liked making movies, and Jack Warner would kick David Zaslav’s ass for how he’s been fucking up his studio.
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We shouldn’t be surprised if the historical softcore community is well organized.
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That’ll change, I’m sure.
But honestly, I don’t want to have to subscribe to a dozen different streaming services… The landscape looks far worse and more expensive than it did in the old days of the dominance of cable.
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It really is so much worse than it was before streaming. It’s like every service has one really compelling show that makes you want to subscribe, and before you know it, you’re paying for 6 different streaming services, each of which you only watch for one show. Only Murders In The Building is really good, but it’s not worth the price of a Hulu subscription.
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Remind us again why Zaslav makes a multi-million dollar salary.
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Some streamers will at least put stuff out on physical media (Amazon, Netflix, Paramount, Hulu) but thus far, both Disney and Apple TV have not done so with much of their content… Disney seems to do so for films, but not series.
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it’s a start at least
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That’s good news, at least… I had not heard about that!
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First they decided to make you watch ads unless you paid them more money, now they decide to make you watch the news unless you pay them more money. Next comes sending bad tap dancers to your door unless you pay them off.
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I dunno… might not be so bad!
Of course, you said BAD tap dancers…
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MBA killed the cinema star! 
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Wow, CNN is already is hated by a large segment of the US market. Randomly interrupting a stream with their content is not going to help with that. I consume enough “news” in a day–when I actually sit down to watch a program it is usally to get away from that shit. Even if it is a pop-up prompt that allows you to switch over to a news stream, it downgrades and distracts from experience. It’s the kind of thing that would make me drop a service and switch to just buying an individual season of a series if I really want to stick with it.
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