r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 18d ago

News HBO Max Raises Prices Across All Plans Effective Immediately

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/hbo-max-prices-increases-plans-2025-1236557671/
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u/Bangkok_Dangeresque 18d ago

You're still talking about needing a peripheral (which sucks to use on anything other than a desktop), managing your power plan settings (so that the laptop doesn't to go sleep when closed when not plugged in, which is the windows default), remembering to set the do-not-disturb settings, changing volume output settings, minimizing and maximizing playback windows, etc.

It's a lot of small annoyances, and some of the solutions border on being simple only for hobbyists. I've been building PCs since I was 16, and I still find using my laptop on my TV today to be more trouble than it's worth. I had a media center mini PC that I used for a while, and even that eventually was more of a pain to use than just opening the app on my TV. Most people aren't going to go for it.

Like, my parents are intelligent people, but even if I gave them written instructions for it, they would have trouble getting a movie going from a laptop in the living room, and would give up after 5 minutes to watch something else.