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Max wants to push alerts on viewers when there is breaking news on CNN. (variety.com)

submitted 1 year ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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CNN Max is likely to evolve over time. Among the features the company will try out are ways of alerting Max viewers to breaking news while they are watching something else on the service, whether it be an HBO series, a Turner Classic Movies selection or an old episode of Food Network’s “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.”

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[–] Heresy_generator@kbin.social 104 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Great, a CNN "Breaking News" update interrupting your movie or show every time Trump pinches off a fresh new loaf on Pravda Social; just what everyone wants!

[–] qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not currently subscribed, but if they don't have an option to disable this I will never subscribe again. For that matter, any streaming service that doesn't allow me to watch a movie/show uninterrupted from beginning to end is a showstopper for me. I can only imagine what streaming services will start doing if they are okay with adding a banner or cutting a stream for news. Ads will be right behind it.

[–] jantin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, then they get bolder and force full-screen ads in the middle of a film and then exhausted subscribers (the three that will be left) will force a co cession from the corporate to have the ads blocked together instead of randomly popping up... Oh wait...

[–] NevermindNoMind@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have the cbs news app on my phone. Yesterday I got a breaking news push notification informing me that someone caught a big alligator. I can't imagine the rage I'd be filled with if I was immersed in a show only to be interrupted by a pop up like that.

Or to use the recent hurricane coverage as an example:

Breaking: Hurricane Project To Hit Florida
Breaking: Hurricane Projected to be 'Major Hurricane '
Breaking: Hurricane Strengthens to Category 3 Ahead of Landfall in Florida
Breaking: Hurricane Strengths to Category 4 Ahead of Landfall in Florida
Breaking: Hurricane Makes Landfall in Florida
Breaking: Hurricane Downgraded to Category 2 Hours After Landfall in Florida
Breaking: Small City Faces Sever Flooding from Hurricane
Breaking: Hurricane Crosses into Georgia

Etc. Pop up, pop up, pop up, pop up. Id either stop watching Max or have to ask my doc to prescribe blood pressure meds.

[–] keeb420@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

I agree. I can understand interrupting the show for somethings. Earthquake early warning, fine. A celebrity going to rehab, not ok.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

But anyways, how's the weather been in Florida and Georgia lately? All good, I presume?

[–] abracaDavid@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Yeah it's just gonna be "breaking news" that turns out to just be fear mongering. Kinda like how pretty much all major news sources have been for the last 20(?) years.

Hard pass.