Why can’t you watch 4K content on HBO Max Spain?

Despite the fact that HBO has one of the best catalogs in the world, thanks to its first-rate series and cult movies, the HBO Max streaming application is one of the most limited, with failures that are inexplicable in the middle of 2022.

In Spain we recently went from enjoying the HBO app, which was very short compared to its American counterpart, to move to HBO Max, the full version where the entire catalog of the company was included.

This was celebrated in style, since it not only gave rise to the company’s latest releases arriving on the platform (as Disney + does), but also the app was expected to make a necessary leap in quality.

Unfortunately, and as you can guess from the headline of the news, There is still a lot to do with HBO Max, including 4K content.


Disney + continues to release news, such as its STAR channel. If you sign up for the annual subscription, you will save the equivalent of two months compared to the monthly subscription.

Inexplicably, in Spain we cannot enjoy movies and series in super high resolution because, simply, they are not there. This makes all the content we see, including the one just released in 2022, is seen only in Full HD.

The user community has been asking HBO for months what is the reason for this unforgivable lack of quality (especially when Netflix, Prime Video and Disney + offer almost all their content in 4K) and if there is a date for the expected resolution improvements to arrive.

And the answer has come to us from Twitter, where a user has pasted the answer given to him by HBO itself after insisting a lot on the subject: “HBO Max at the moment is still managed by the European parent company, HBO Nordic. The copies they have often come from an HDTV broadcast, with the audio in Castilian added”.

This means that they do not have the original master’s degrees that they do have in the United States, which means that we in Spain can only enjoy the quality of the channel on television, which is just Full HD and not 4K.

This explanation would help us understand why in our country we cannot enjoy Euphoria, The Peacemaker or Chernobyl in 4K when in the rest of the world they do have it at that quality.

Unfortunately it does not explain why other deficiencies of the app, such as the crappy and automatic translations of the titles of the series or the absence of subtitles in a lot of moviesboth new and classic. HBO Max needs a lot of work if they want to compete.



Reference-computerhoy.com

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