HBO

“the management layers at Disney, Netflix, HBO, you name it, they don't seem care about the actual product”

“HBO still makes money off decades old IP because much of their decades old IP is made to the highest standards in television.”

“HBO randomly took a million things off its platform so that it could do accounting tricks.”

“So many apps have DRM that prevent you from running it yourself in any way.”

“i am literally looking forward to watching HBO when i get home from work”

“When folks come home from a hard day of work they don't want HBO.”

“Then HBO did a machine gun fire of price increases so I cancelled.”

“you had primo shows and there was a big movie release almost every Saturday night”

“Once "premium" offerings like HBO, which were ad-free on cable TV, now has ads on its paid streaming version.”

“When HBO took chances, was cool”

“I love that HBO still carries on”

“suddenly the frontpage was filled with promotions of this inane reality-TV crap”

“almost infinitely better than HBO, Netflix, etc.”

“HBO had been degraded by sadly. Disnified. Adult oriented HBO quality shows don't exist anymore”

“the throughput of quality programming out of HBO has dropped off a cliff”

“Most of their content is consistently pretty good”

“HBO releases tons of great shows every year”

“HBO on the other hand has the highest batting average, and the brand actually still stands for quality”

“Netflix has some good originals, but it's not in the same category as HBO/WB”

“Nothing that Amazon has produced comes even close to what HBO produced between 1995-2015.”

“They produced a limited amount of high-quality content.”

“personally I would much rather watch a HBO show than a Netflix one”

“I've maintained an HBO subscription for that entire time”

“HBO and Warner Bros are known for premium, high-caliber content”

“HBO has released some of the best TV of all time”

“Their back catalog is more impressive than their current output.”

“I opened up the HBO app and saw the full screen background ad for Fboy Island”

“HBO was and still is the gold standard for premium cable content.”

“that it will be less expensive for consumes because they can now bundle HBO/Netflix”

“If you leave the featured areas and venture into any of the categories, you will see that HBO is also full of junk.”

“HBO has been great at localization for european regions (subs, local content)”

“HBO has some timeless TV classics that I keep rewatching every year”

“None of those are close to peak HBO content sorry.”

“the only definitively quality TV producer headed for enshittification”

“HBO died many years ago when ATT fired all the executives that had the taste and vision to make HBO what it was.”

“I have trouble imagining that HBO would ever again be involved in something on par with The Wire”

“HBO has had far, far more quality programs over the years”

“its development process still begins with the story and the enthusiasm of the showrunner”

“HBO is destination television - it's the taste that Netflix lacks and so desperately needs.”

“One is interactive almost real time narrative/emotion resonance/ritual engineering and the other is a deeper slower process.”