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Re:Warner Bros. Will Send Entire 2021 Slate to HBO Max and T... by jessaustin on Thursday December 03, 2020 @03:19PM (#25294173)
There are thousands of Roku apps; creating one is not a high-tech challenge. This is just HBO [edit, thanks sibling comment by 'whatok [0]:] refusing to pay Roku's toll.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25294181

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Re:Warner Bros. Will Send Entire 2021 Slate to HBO Max and T... by colinmhayes on Thursday December 03, 2020 @04:50PM (#25295642)
Not having a roku app is a deliberate choice. It's not like this is some engineering failure. Hbo and roku got in some sort of fight, I assume hbo wants to be paid by roku.
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Re:Warner Bros. Will Send Entire 2021 Slate to HBO Max and T... by ecopoesis on Thursday December 03, 2020 @03:47PM (#25294616)
HBO isn't paying WB, HBO is WB.
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Re:Warner Bros. Will Send Entire 2021 Slate to HBO Max and T... by jessaustin on Thursday December 03, 2020 @04:47PM (#25295595)
Whoops, that's a good point. I guess the accounting works a bit differently in that case?
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