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August 2023: "North by Northwest" Disappears -- Again -- from the TCM Hub -- This Time on "Max"

posted a year ago by roger1 (3869)
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First, this happened:
https://moviechat.org/tt0053125/North-by-Northwest/640cece36cd1714ae243cfd5/North-by-Northwest-Disappears-from-the-TCM-Hub-on-HBO-Max

Then, this happened:

https://moviechat.org/tt0053125/North-by-Northwest/643041faa461ca314e4e8fa6/Good-News-North-by-Northwest-RE-APPEARS-On-HBO-Max-But-Not-on-the-TCM-Hub

Now in August of 2023, this has happened:

HBO Max is...no more.

In its place the new streaming service is "Max." Just plain "Max."

And just plain "Max" does NOT carry North by Northwest at this time.

On schedule. Off schedule. On the hub. Off the hub.

Its a tough life for North by Northwest on streaming these days.

[–] ecarle (14979) a year ago

January 2024

HBO Max is now Max..and in the Turner Classic Movies hub...North by Northwest is long gone and disappeared. Just the old British Hitchcocks and Foreign Correspondent. The Warners Hitchcocks Strangers on a Train and Dial M for Murder are gone too...isnt TCM owned by Time Warner? I hear that Peacock has the Paramount and Universal Hitchcocks like Rear Window Psycho and The Birds.

But North by Northwest? Gone from streaming forever?

[–] FilmBuff (7355) a year ago

This is why more and more people are once again buying physical media.

[–] ecarle (14979) a year ago

I hear ya. DVDs wear out and need to be repurchased. I worry dvds will disappear too. Any other choices, I wonder. Other than my memories...

[–] FilmBuff (7355) a year ago

If they do wear out, it takes a long time. The DVDs I bought in the '90s still play. But it doesn't matter, because I create a digital backup of each one.

[–] ecarle (14979) a year ago

I probably dont care properly for my dvds. Yet a lot of them are still ok. I think i will take better care of them! Ps. I liked watching NXNW on cable/streaming to spare a dvd play..

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[–] ecarle (14979) a year ago

Well good that they have not disappeared entirely..but "free with ads" is what Turner Classic Movies and some other pay premium cable channels were meant to END. "Commercial-free" they are called. We are going backwards...DVDs are the save.