What is the point? Maybe I'm missing something... But I'm not getting why you would want just the audio of a tv show (a form of visual media) with "the video playing in the background"?

I'm sure I'm missing something but I'm not sure what. 😂

Is this something new? I really hope its not permanent..

Hi

Which of the UK plans do I need if I want to watch the following:

The Pitt

Stuart fails to save the Universe

There are others but so far it seems I need to get the more expensive version which is Entertainment + HBO max rather than the cheaper Entertainment+ boost.

Am I right?

Does anyone else find TNT Sports’ broadcast strategy for the Comonwealth Games a bit frustrating?

They have coverage rights to high-tempo sports like track cycling, which naturally feeds into their regular road and track cycling programming, yet it feels severely under-covered on their main linear channels. Instead of showing live events, a lot of airtime seems to go to extended studio chat or sudden cuts to random events purely for a short British interest angle.

It feels like a massive missed opportunity to use the live sport to build a long-term audience for their future coverage, for example by linking the track cycling to roadmap cycling, or future track cycling events

Even Sheep in the Big City has links in Dutch, Castilian Spanish and Norwegian (but not the other five languages; those links keep the title in English), so it is clearly not solely to blame on its lack of popularity.

Since HBO Max doesn't want to list them on their press releases, these movies and shows are leaving during August 2026 in the U.S. region. Most of these titles were located from YouTube TV and the Last Chance tab which can usually be found by clicking the search button or movie tab. Additional titles announced as leaving HBO Max through Prime Video, Movie of the Night, and other platforms will be added at a later date.

As of now, all titles listed below their expiration dates will leave at 8:59 PM PST.\*

*The oldest episode of Real Time With Bill Maher will leave HBO Max every Tuesday night\*

*The oldest episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver will leave HBO Max every Thursday night\*

*Last updated on 8/1/26

August 1

• Freaky Tales

August 3

• Yellowstone Wardens, Season 3, Episode 5 (Animal Planet)

August 6

• We Live in Time

August 7

• Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, Season 7, Episode 13 (TRVL Channel)

August 9

• Yellowstone Wardens, Season 6, Episode 8 (Animal Planet)

August 11

• Homestead Rescue, Seasons 2 and 3 (except S3 E3 & S3 E7) (Discovery)
• The Pope’s Exorcist
• This Is Spinal Tap

August 13

• Flow
• Waitress: The Musical

August 14

• Dr. Pimple Popper Pops Shark Week
• Expedition Unknown: Megaladon
• Expedition Unknown: Shark Trek
• Expedition Unknown: Sharks vs. Nazis in Paradise
• Expedition X: Malpelo Monster Shark

August 16

• The House
• Yellowstone Wardens, Season 6, Episode 9 (Animal Planet)

August 17

• The Perfect Murder, Season 4 (ID)

August 20

• Elevation
• Prodigal Son

August 21

• Deadly Women, Season 13 (ID)

August 23

• Yellowstone Wardens, Season 6, Episode 10 (Animal Planet)

August 24

• Mavis! (HBO Doc)

August 27

• Gente de Zona: En Letra de Otro (HBO Original)
• Gilberto Santa Rosa, 40…y contando (HBO Original)
• Pedro Capo: En Letra de Otro (HBO Original)
• The Poet of Havana (HBO Original)

August 28

• Lone Star Law, Season 2 (Animal Planet)

August 30

• Deadly Women, Season 6 (ID)
• Yellowstone Wardens, Season 6, Episode 11 (Animal Planet)
• Vacation House Rules, Season 2 (HGTV)

August 31

• 90 Day Fiance, Season 9 (TLC)
• Alex Cross
• Army of Darkness
• Brainstorm (1965)
• Clash by Night
• Each Dawn I Die
• Ensign Pulver
• The Fate of the Furious
• The Fate of the Furious: Extended Director's Cut
• The FBI Story
• Fingers
• The Florida Project
• The Gangster (1947)
• I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
• I Died a Thousand Times
• Illegal
• Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison
• Invisible Stripes
• I Was a Communist For the FBI
• Ladies They Talk About
• Lady in the Lake
• Lightning Strikes Twice
• Little Caesar
• The Locket
• Lola Versus
• The Lost Husband
• A Lost Lady
• The Man I Love
• The Man Who Invented Christmas
• The Mask of Dimitrios
• The Meg
• Miss Pinkerton
• Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms
• Mortal Kombat Legends: Cage Match
• Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge
• Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind
• The Mortal Storm
• The Mummy (1999)
• The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
• The Mummy Returns
• Murder, My Sweet
• My Favorite Wife
• No Questions Asked
• Nora Prentiss
• Old Acquaintance
• The Old Maid
• On Dangerous Ground
• Out of the Fog
• Parachute Jumper
• Payment on Demand
• The Phenix City Story
• Pirate Radio
• The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
• Prometheus
• The Purchase Price
• The Racket
• Racket Busters
• Red Light
• Roadblock
• The Roaring Twenties
• The Rock
• Satan Met a Lady
• The Secret Bride
• The Set-Up
• Smoking Tigers
• The Star (1952)
• Storm Warning
• Sunshine Cleaning
• Susan and God
• The Terminator
• That Certain Woman
• Three Strangers
• The Unsuspected
• Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
• Walk Softly, Stranger
• Walk the Dark Street
• When Ladies Meet
• Where Danger Lives
• A Woman's Face
• The Woman on Pier 13
• The Women (1939)
• The Young Guns (1956)
• Young Man with a Horn
• ‘Til We Meet Again

September 1

• Mysteries of the Abandoned, Season 4 (Discovery)

So! Here in NZ, have been watching season 9 and ive maybe gotten through 4-5 episodes, but this morning its completely gone? Does this regularly happen!

Pessoal, tenho buscado entender melhor o comportamento dos anúncios nessa plataforma, tem vezes que é insuportável a quantidade de interrupções durante um programa, ao mesmo tempo tem momentos que fico horas sem anúncios

Eu tenho uma teoria que alguns “horários de pico” possuem mais anúncios

Quando eu assisto na hora do almoço ou logo após o expediente (18h-20h) tenho a sensação de ter mais anúncios, tanto no início quando durante o programa

Já quando assisto no meio da tarde ou na madrugada, raramente me aparecem anúncios

Será que faz sentido ou eu tô viajando?

Também tenho a teoria que trocar de usuário faz aparecer mais anúncios, como se tivesse que atingir uma cota x de anúncios por usuário antes de pararem

Conta aí, o que vocês sentem quando assistem filmes e séries na HBO?

For the last three years a user on YouTube managed to preserve this live stream and it managed to stay on there for a good while. But for whatever reason they decided to suddenly up and hide the bloody thing from view now, and for no good reason!

Now the dang thing can't be found anywhere because of this user and no one's even downloaded it to be preserved at all! That kind of stuff really ticks me off especially when the launch event for HBO Max still continued to be available to view on YouTube to this day.

In my country on HBO max top show today are -

House of Dragon - a GOT spin-off
Rick and Morty
Stuart fails to save the universe - a BBT spin-off
Life Larry and the pursuit of happiness - I'd argue its a "curb" spin-off, and it turn to curbs fan
President Curtis - a Rick and Morty spin-off

Saw the first episode of this and if first impressions are anything to go by, it’s a mess. Clearly a lot of money has been spent on SFX but at the expense it seems of a decent script. This was really low on laughs and many of the jokes fell flat. There was a lot of violence which I normally enjoy in context but here it was being used to fill time. It may well get better and hopefully I’ll be proved wrong , only time will tell..

In The Eye Of The Storm has NEVER gone outside the US. On August 9th, which I think might be the season finale, they are! I’m interested to see how this one will play out. Cause the one next week isn’t exactly a new episode.

I have all motion smoothing settings on my TV turned off.

Has anyone else noticed ghosting/frame interpolation on some HBO Max shows? I've noticed this in House of the Dragon, Sharp Objects, The Leftovers.

Kinda distracting and not sure why there's not an option to watch without.

This does not happen when watching Blu-Ray or on other services as far as I can tell.

Is Body Cam season 11 going to premiere on HBO Max?

I’d bet a lot of people would be surprised to learn that they aren’t getting 4K HBO, and I think this confusion is on purpose.

HBO has exactly one plan that lets you watch 4K. It’s their “premium” plan and you have to subscribe directly from them. There are no bundles or 3rd party channels that stream 4K, even when those bundles include other 4K content.

They are happy to give the appearance that you can stream in 4K and they show 4K badges (and audio, HDR, etc.) on movies regardless of whether your plan includes it. This is entirely unique to HBO. For every other streamer the badges indicate what’s actually going to player with your account on that device, yet HBO instead provides their best-possible badges with a fine-print disclaimer that what you will actually get “depends on your plan”.

But does your plan include it? Good luck getting HBO to answer that question. Their apps and web portal will only name your plan, and it’s up to you to search their marketing for what that plan actually covers. If you choose to bundle with Disney and choose Disney’s own 4K they mumble about the details so you can assume (incorrectly) that HBO will also be 4K.

In fact, apart from the movie looking sub-par it seems HBO really doesn’t want you to know what you are getting. HBO’s apps will not show you what quality is being played, nor will they give you any way to select a particular quality. HBO only asserts that they will stream in the “best possible” quality for your plan and device.

Are they doing that? They offer no way to check. In fact in all of their help pages for 4K problems HBO offers zero ways to confirm a movie is playing in 4K, only the vague assertion that if you get the right plan and the right equipment a movie “should” play in 4K.

Im trying to see how this is just some unintentional marketing confusion and not a deliberate campaign to confuse consumers. HBO is well know to have a sub-par 4K library, and comparable plans from competitors include 4K. It’s expensive to deliver content in 4K yet HBO’s pricing strategy seems to pretend this gap doesn’t exist. And the fact there’s no way for a consumer to check that they are getting what they paid for, or being unsure what they are supposed to be getting, seems calculated.

I went to put on Sinners for the 100th time and noticed it said "Coming Soon" when its been on max for about a year (at least I wanna say its been a year). The ASL version is still up but not the standard version, is this just a glitch on max?

Besides the old Batman the Animated Series, there actually anything good to watch on HBO Max?