The platform that will unite HBO Max and Discovery + already has an official date and name

The Warner-Discovery merger has done more than just cancel a few projects, bring in a new board, and put James Gunn and Peter Safran at DC Studios, as one of the biggest changes has been the relatively new HBO Max platform. Well, it’s been announced. that its streaming service, as it currently stands, will merge with Discovery+ sometime in 2023.

Until now, everything was unknown and new users who signed up for the service were left unsure of what would happen to the promotions they originally signed up for on the platform. Now, a new report from CNBC claims that “Maximum’ will be the name of the new streaming platform resulting from the merger of companies.

According to the outlet’s sources, company executives may ultimately still make changes, but believe that at this point”Maximum” would be the definitive name of the service that unites HBO Max and Discovery+. It’s worth mentioning that both content would be available within this new service, but there are no details on how subscriptions will work.

Finally, they point it outMaximum” It would be available in the US by mid-2023., and although there is no release date for Mexico and Latin America, it should arrive during the last months of the year. At the moment, all of this has not been officially announced by Warner, but it is possible that over the course of the following months they have already prepared the official announcement.

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What can be seen on the new streaming platform “Max”?

For now we just have to wait for official confirmations, but CNBC insiders mention that in ‘Max’ there will be original HBO productions, such as ‘The Last of Us’, ‘Mare of Easttown’ or ‘Dune: The Sisterhood’, while that CNN news content, Discovery+ reality shows and, of course, films and series from other production companies would also be included in the catalog.

Sources say HBO would become a sub-brand within the platform’s catalog, meaning that all of its original content would be in a special section accessed from the main page. According to David Zaslav, the new executive chairman of Warner Bros. Discovery, says the company’s goal so far is to achieve profitability.

All that remains is to wait to find out the prices, the plans and what will happen to the people who have signed up for a contract with HBO Max and Discovery + at the moment, and how the promotions and discounts associated with their accounts with which they access the catalog will be respected. and series.