Here's everything you need to know about HBO's new streaming service

Cape Town – WarnerMedia on Tuesday announced that its subscription video-on-demand streaming service it plans to launch in autumn-2020 will be called HBO Max with a massive raft of newly-commissioned shows.

Existing video streaming services like Showmax from MultiChoice's Connected Video division, Netflix South Africa, Amazon Prime Video, Viu and others are battling it out with each other for the small but growing market share of South African and African subscribers, alongside traditional pay-TV operators like MultiChoice's DStv and StarSat from China's StarTimes.

WarnerMedia says that HBO Max will contain content from HBO, as well as programming from Warner Bros., New Line, DC Entertainment, CNN, TNT, TBS, truTV, The CW, Turner Classic Movies, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Crunchyroll, Rooster Teeth and Looney Tunes, and will launch with 100 000 hours of content.

"HBO's world-class programming leads the way, the quality of which will be the guiding principle for our new array of Max Originals, our exciting acquisitions, and the very best of the Warner Bros. libraries."will leave Netflix early next year and make its way to HBO Max.

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