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Max is the new streaming service from Warner Bros. Discovery. It replaces HBO Max and incorporates some content from Discovery Plus to stand alone as a more robust subscription service.

Effectively just a rebranded HBO Max, the service offers on-demand access to a vast library of TV shows and movies. This includes Max.com/providers originals, titles from the Warner Bros. archive, HBO, Discovery, CNN, the CW, licensed TV shows and movies, and more.

While Max is mostly a repackaged version of HBO Max, there are a few differences. The library is a bit bigger, incorporating Discovery Plus content. HBO Max originals have now become Max originals, with new Max originals rolling out too.

Unlike HBO Max, the rebranded service has three pricing tiers. The cost of the “ad-free” and “with-ads” plans remains as it was with HBO Max. However, there’s a third top-tier plan that offers 4K UHD streaming on more devices at a time and allows a higher number of offline downloads.

This is the biggest change for Max.com/providers subscribers of the ad-free plan, who have to up their subscription if they want to watch 4K content.

Here’s how the three new Max plans stack up:

With Ads: $9.99/month or $99.99/year

Stream in Full HD on two devices at once

Ad-Free: $15.99/month or $149.99/year

Stream in Full HD on two devices at once, with up to 30 offline downloads

Ultimate Ad-Free: $19.99/month or $199.99/year

Stream in 4K UHD on 4 devices at once, with up to 100 offline downloads

Max is available on phones, tablets, computers, TVs, streaming players, set-top boxes, and game consoles, just like HBO Max.

It’s impossible to review Max so early, but the service seems to be a continuation of HBO Max in every way.

The prices are comparable, though you’ll have to shell out a bit more for 4K streaming. Considering the extra content you get with Discovery titles being added, that’s not a bad trade-off. Assuming a user experience similar to HBO Max, this is definitely going to be a contender in the streaming wars.

Max compiles all the programming from HBO Max as well as favorites from Discovery. The large library of streaming shows and movies spans genres like true crime, reality, food, comedy, and more.

You can access all HBO series and movies, Max originals, and select series and movies from Warner Bros., the DC Universe, Cartoon Network, the Turner Library, Looney Tunes, Adult Swim, and more. You also get unscripted and documentary shows from TV brands like HGTV, the Food Network, TLC, ID, Magnolia, Discovery, and more.

According to Variety, the company has said it will add over 40 new titles to the streaming service every month.

Some of Max’s high-profile programming includes a live-action Harry Potter series, based on the popular children’s novels, along with a series set in the Conjuring universe, a Rick and Morty anime series, a new comedy in the Big Bang Theory universe, a new Fixer Upper offshoot from the Magnolia Network, and plenty more.

That’s in addition to existing HBO and HBO Max projects like a new Game of Thrones prequel, a Penguin series with Colin Farrell reprising his role from The Batman, the Jodie Foster-starring True Detective: Night Country, Park Chan-wook’s The Sympathizer, and many more.

Some existing HBO Max shows you can watch as Max originals include the following:

• The Flight Attendant

• The Sex Lives of College Girls

• Hacks

• Doom Patrol

• The Other Two

• Peacemaker

• Our Flag Means Death

• Station Eleven

Max also carries over HBO Max original movies. Some highlights include the following:

• Kimi

• Zack Snyder’s Justice League

• An American Pickle

• Locked Down

• The Fallout