HBO Max is finally coming to Amazon Fire TV devices

After a protracted battle between Amazon and HBO proprietor WarnerMedia, the 2 firms have come to an settlement that may enable Amazon Fireplace TV customers to lastly stream HBO Max.

Beginning on November seventeenth, individuals with Amazon Fireplace TV streaming gadgets, Fireplace TV Version sensible TVs, and Fireplace tablets can load HBO Max immediately on these gadgets. Till now, Amazon allowed HBO prospects to entry a model of HBO Now, however there was no option to get Max, WarnerMedia’s new streaming service. WarnerMedia’s announcement notes that present HBO subscribers who undergo Amazon’s Prime Video Channel choice (Channels permits Amazon Prime subscribers to buy particular person plans for sure streamers) may even have the ability to log into Max for no extra value.

For different HBO product subscribers, right here’s the way it’ll work: the HBO app on Fireplace TV and Fireplace tablets will routinely change over to HBO Max, so that you don’t should do any work. Folks can log in with their present HBO credentials. New prospects will likely be in a position to enroll in HBO Max immediately inside the app, too.

“Our continued purpose is to make HBO Max and its unparalleled content material out there to prospects throughout all of the gadgets they love,” Tony Goncalves, head of gross sales and distribution for WarnerMedia, mentioned within the press launch. “Fireplace TV is a favourite amongst prospects and we sit up for working with the Amazon workforce to have interaction and develop our present subscriber base by showcasing all that HBO Max has to supply.”

The looming query hanging over the announcement is whether or not this implies a cope with Roku, the opposite main streaming aggregator on which HBO Max is presently absent, will likely be introduced quickly. Each WarnerMedia and Roku have publicly mentioned many instances they need to work on a deal as shortly as doable, so with Amazon and WarnerMedia now in enterprise, hopefully it received’t be a protracted watch for Roku house owners — particularly since Roku and Comcast labored out an settlement not too way back to lastly to settle the same dispute for NBCUniversal’s Peacock streaming service.