Tomorrow will finally occur the landing of HBO Max in Spain. The new streaming service for movies, series and documentaries from Warner and AT&T finally arrives in our country after a period of exclusivity in the United States, and after its subsequent arrival in Latin America. And as the company announced, HBO Max will replace the current HBO that we have here.
The new service will cannibalize the old one, and due to the “chaos” of the company’s services, with HBO Nordiq and HBO Go sharing continents, we will finally have to download a new app (it is not worth updating), register in it and the account will rescue our current subscription to HBO. Or if we are not clients, register already in the new morning, October 26th. We tell you what will come from the hand of HBO Max.
This is what will arrive with HBO Max at 8.99 euros per month
The new HBO Max service that will debut in our country will keep the old HBO price, something that has placed the Warner Media platform one notch below the most expensive competition on the market. If we talk about accounts equivalent to what the basic HBO Max offers, we would have Netflix as the most expensive of all and below we would find the rest. Although we will have offers, of course we do.
HBO Max will cost 8.99 euros per month but if we wish, we can hire a full year. This will result in HBO reducing our price by 33%. That is, we will pay a full year for the equivalent of 8 current months. 69.99 euros will cost us the whole year on HBO Max, below the 108 euros that we would have paid with the monthly subscription, which is a great reduction that we will see if it is maintained over time.
Regarding the pure and simple application, which we have already commented that it will be new and we will have to download it, we will obtain improvements such as the arrival of 4K content, content that will also have (the compatible ones) Atmos sound and HDR image. We will also have up to 5 profiles (at last) and up to 3 simultaneous reproductions will be allowed. That is, we can reproduce content in three of the five profiles at the same time without the app limiting us.
As with other platforms, HBO Max will take advantage of belonging to Warner, which means that we will also have movie premieres on our television or mobile, although we will not have simultaneous premieres. HBO Max has already told us that the window for the cinemas will be 45 days exclusively. So we will have to wait that long for the movies to jump from the theater to our home. And when they arrive, they will do so at no additional cost. They will be included in our subscription.
As for pure and hard content, HBO Max will divide its catalog into five large blocks, namely:
- HBO: with the classic movies and series of the platform
- Max Originals: the new exclusive productions of HBO Max
- Warner Bros: Warner’s catalog of movies, series and other content
- Cartoon Network Collection: content for the little ones (and the not so little ones), preferably animation
- DC: movies, series and other content from DC, the comic book company responsible for characters like Batman, Superman or Wonder Woman, among many others.
- And also, Third Party Licensed Content.
Upon arrival in Spain, HBO Max has promised that HBO’s current movie catalog will be significantly increased, taking hold of the Warner wardrobe that was not available in our country. The titles licensed by other platforms will stay there for the time being to return as the contracts end, and thus the repetition of HBO Max does not stop increasing. HBO Max already boasts of having sagas like The Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter under his belt, although we already have them in the current HBO. Of course, without 4K.
All this is what we will have tomorrow, when HBO Max officially lands in Spain. Let’s recap: new application, we identify with our HBO user so that the subscription is transferred and respected, the profiles arrive, the 4K, HDR and Atmos contents arrive, and we will also have movie premieres on the platform after 45 days. All for 8.99 euros per month or 69.99 euros per year.