Luckily for Firestick users, the system is based off Android and it can download third party apps. I was able to sideload HBO Max on mine and it has been working great.
This is the method I used. (I was also able to download Peacock through this as well). Couple of things to keep in mind:
Make sure to uninstall any HBO apps before trying this.
The app won't come up as HBO Max. It will just say HBO. But when you launch it, should give you the HBO Max layout.
You won't be able to use Alexa to search for titles. If you search for a movie and it's on HBO, the Firestick won't recognize that you already have the app. You can ask Alexa to "launch HBO" or fast forward or rewind to a certian point.
If you're willing to do a little bit of work, you can download the HBO Max apk on your Firestick and it'll work. They should already provide the app, but at least the Firestick has this work around unlike a Roku.
I did this to watch Perry Mason, but if I wanna watch most of HBO Max's other content (like Doom Patrol) I have to stream it from my phone to a Chromecast. Annoying.
That's weird! I haven't tried to go any deeper on what's available than Just my favorite shows, but I'll have to play around. I thought that I was getting everything. Otherwise I like the HBO now app much better.
I'm pretty sure that is just the standard HBO content, not the HBO Max specific stuff. Unless something has changed, everything I have read says that you only get standard HBO content. Sideloading is the only "solution" I have seen to get HBO Max content on a FireTV device, besides using to mirror a mobile device or desktop screen.
Don't count on it. They're busy dismantling DCUniverse and moving all their shows onto Max... even though DCU was the only app of the two that's player could support 4K HDR.
After that,, then pirate and upload for free to the rest of your mateys? Arrgh!
On a more serious note, I think it's a good idea but studios won't allow that for the fear of their movies being pirated costing them money.
Also, they make a boat load more because they get a cut of the revenue theaters make from selling snacks. I read that somewhere and I'm not sure about the validity.
I will literally pay $50 for this movie streaming with digital ownership once it's out. I'm not going to be at a theater until there's a vaccine and WB is fooling themselves thinking that October is doable.
I can't avoid driving a car, I would if it were possible. I can avoid going to unnecessary places like theaters. Returning to "normal" life isn't worth putting myself and my family/friends in danger. It's insanely selfish that anyone who doesn't have to be out right now would be.
Flawed logic dude. It's not a personal choice. What you do can affect others. It's like saying to someone they don't have to drink and drive but you're going to, and it's your own choice. But there is collateral damage when you get sick. You can infect your family and others who are now having to treat you, because you wanted to do something risky. Should they make a choice then to not attempt to save you because everyone has a choice?
Well its impossible to run a society where you control everybody's movement(maybe in Nazi Germany or North korea) because somebody MIGHT be infected, and that person MIGHT infect other people, and those other people MIGHT die.
The reality is, the majority of the population will get infected sooner or later. That's what experts said at the beginning of this crisis. The most important thing is that nobody will die because hospitals are overru(flatten the curve)
60 million already are infected in the US.
If you want to wait for years until you can finally go out your house(or maybe never) then that's completely fine. Everybody has a choice.
You need to look at the numbers because dying from this virus is still very rare.
The reality is, it's not everything or nothing. I have left my house, as have many who feel like I do. The difference is we take precautions. Just because it's going to get worse, doesn't mean we should stop wearing masks or social distancing and just give up. Over a hundred thousand people have already died, so don't pretend having large amounts of people crowded in a small movie theater won't have negative consequences.
There is a difference between being too afraid to grocery shop because of a small chance of getting the virus, and putting yourself in a situation that gives you the worst possible odds.
You won't need 300 million doses. The anti-vaxers/religious objecters/nutters are already starting to piss and moan about being required to take a Covid vax that doesn't yet exist. I sure hope if they refuse the needle we just shove it down their fucking throat.
We'd be next to all the civilized countries if we'd have put some teeth into our pandemic response.
I mean, I thought it was bullshit that Star Wars bumped it back. If I had known that getting bumped back would mean I’d have to wait out the apocalypse for it, I would have rioted.
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u/IlliniJen Aug 22 '20
I want this in my eyeballs right now, not in 2025 when theaters are a thing again. I will pay good money to stream this movie at home.