The landing of HBO Max in Spain took place this past Tuesday, October 26. The new platform Warner He arrived hitting hard, but also showing off some problems that he should solve as soon as possible. For my part, I wanted to highlight Five things HBO Max urgently needs to improve if you want to be able to be a great competitor for Netflix.
Unjustified disappearances
The transition from HBO to HBO Max for pre-existing content it has not gone exactly like silk. There are titles that completely disappeared in the case of ‘Last Week Tonight with John Oliver’, although the acclaimed program is now available again, or ‘The Vampire Diaries’, while strange things happen from others. For example, of the second season of ‘Doom Patrol’ there were previously seven episodes of the second season available and currently only four. Of course, nothing as striking as the case of ‘Supernatural’, a series of which an episode of the fourth season is available right now. No sign of everyone else.
From HBO Max has cleared that for these cases “we have so many titles to add, it’s taking a while. The missing chapters will be incorporated in the next few hours“It is clear that this is a complicated migration, but his thing would be to have made sure everything was fine before launch.
More classic cinema
The classic film catalog in the hands of Warner is immense and some titles are already available on the platform, such as ‘The Wizard of Oz’, ‘Gone with the Wind’ or ‘A Clockwork Orange’, although to find the film from Stanley kubrick You have to search for it by its original title in English.
However, it is a selection too limited when it could become an additional hook for a certain sector of the public. I imagine that the plan has been to start with some very striking works and then add more, but it is unknown if this will be the case.
Unkept promises
The most hooligan and beloved prince on television awaits you. From October 26 you will be able to see all the seasons of #The prince of Bel Air on HBO Max #HelloHBOMax pic.twitter.com/2HZSUwFEDp
– HBO Max Spain (@HBOMaxES) October 23, 2021
From HBO Max they announced that some titles would be available coinciding with the launch of the platform and then there was no trace of them. A good example is that of ‘The Prince of Bel-Air’, but there are also other cases such as those of ‘The OC’ and ‘One Tree Hill’.
Where are the Max Originals that are still unreleased?
Lovers of television series counted on the arrival of HBO Max in Spain to lead to the arrival in our country of some originals from the platform that were still unpublished in our country. In the case of ‘Hacks’, winner of several Emmy in the last edition of these awards, it is supposed to be available but there is no human way to access it, it stays loading all the time. Nor is anything known about ‘Harley Quinn’, an animated series that was already announced that it became part of HBO Max after the first two were released in DC Universe. We have waited long enough to see them.
Overdose of technical problems
The launch of HBO Max has been accompanied by various technical problems, from those users who simply could not access their account with their data to those who simply they couldn’t change your subscription plan. There is even quite particular cases how to access the platform from the mobile but not from the television or various complaints about subtitles…
The technical service will have to deal with these faults to eliminate them as soon as possible, but here it can be understood that certain problems do not affect all people and perhaps in the previous test they simply did not take place. With everything, the sooner they solve them, the better.