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.
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.
I like this and will probably end up using it for things I can’t find online.
I’ve been building up my collection via buying the content directly on the iTunes store, and am slowly moving copies of everything onto SSDs for long-term. I’m subscribed to cheap charts alerts so I get emails when anything on my wish list is on sale, and basically price watch so I don’t pay full price for anything. You can get pretty custom with the alerts. I haven’t looked in awhile, but there’s also a buy sell trade subreddit for digital codes where people will sell their content really cheap.
For now, I can stream my entire library via the Apple TV app which is pretty convenient. Eventually I’ll want to add more to my actual library/storage that isn’t available via iTunes, so I’ll probably search online and use the method you shared when needed.
Agreed on it being really convenient once you have your library set up. The first month or two felt a little sparse as far as exploring, but once I had a decent base of my favorite content, nothing beats having it consistently there all the time. I don’t miss streaming subscriptions at all.
Not quite the same level of convenience as having it available to stream right away though.
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.
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.
That’s fair. I’ve discovered some neat old films on Max by just browsing around.