HBO Max returns to Amazon’s Prime Video Channels

Good news for many who hate switching apps on their TVs: HBO is making a return to Amazon’s Prime Video Channels in the US. Customers who subscribe to Prime Video can add HBO Max for $14.99 per thirty days and get entry to all of the Warner Bros. Discovery content material like House of the Dragon in the identical place they watch The Boys.

Both Amazon and Warner Bros. Discovery have been reportedly in talks this summer time to get their relationship rolling once more. In 2020, WarnerMedia, the previous AT&T-owned iteration of HBO’s mother or father firm, launched the standalone HBO Max service that ultimately changed the earlier HBO Go and Now streaming-only providers. When Max went stay, HBO started its try to transition to its new sovereign platform by eradicating its service from Apple TV Channels, and it wasn’t accessible on Amazon’s Channels, both.

But with a brand new service comes the negotiations, and WarnerMedia stayed at that desk for some time, ensuing within the new HBO Max app not being accessible for months on Amazon gadgets just like the Fire TV and even Roku gadgets. Meanwhile, the HBO Now service continued to run on Amazon’s platform, although the service fragmentation was extraordinarily complicated on the time.

But in 2022, concord is restored. Now, you possibly can watch HBO content material and subscribe to HBO Max by way of a number of platforms — not shocking given new CEO David Zaslav’s need to become profitable quick. Warner Bros. Discovery may also be making extra modifications quickly, like dropping the “HBO” moniker and naming the service to simply be “Max.” Whatever it decides to do, no less than now you can watch reveals exterior of an app that appears to nonetheless get fairly buggy.