What has happened to HBO?

[Hawkee]

Lately when I have been seeing HBO during special previews I have noticed that HBO has changed it's image and trying to become a retro movie channel. Is it because HBO really has no other movie channels besides Showtime Sundance Channel and Starz and Encore to compete with or is it because HBO wants to gain access to a new audience of movie fans? When HBO was first launched in 1975 as the world's first cable movie channel it was well recieved by movie fans everywhere and you could see commercial free movies anytime. But if you look at HBO today you rarely see recent movies airing on it and when I have watched HBO as well as the sister channels during the special previews it seems that they have an obsession with movies from the 70's 80's and 90's and all the movies that they seem to show are movies like Three Men And A Baby from 1987 Indiana Jones In Raiders Of The Lost Ark from 1984 Total Recall from 1990 to Planes Trains And Automobiles from 1987 and I can't figure out why HBO focuses on showing movies from 30 years ago when they should be showing the recent top movie hits of today. Is HBO planning to transform itself into a retro channel and creating a separate movie channel just for today's movie hits?
I cannot figure out why people pay for HBO with their cable when HBO is going downhill and isn't really worth watching
Bestie

[Dude111]

Everyone of those networks has gone downhill..........

Game network,Food network,etc..... Its all about $$$$$$$$ ...... Nothing good on "TV" anymore..... Nothing but crap with an agenda and its sad.....

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Originally Posted by LaBestia

Lately when I have been seeing HBO during special previews I have noticed that HBO has changed it's image and trying to become a retro movie channel. Is it because HBO really has no other movie channels besides Showtime Sundance Channel and Starz and Encore to compete with or is it because HBO wants to gain access to a new audience of movie fans? When HBO was first launched in 1975 as the world's first cable movie channel it was well recieved by movie fans everywhere and you could see commercial free movies anytime. But if you look at HBO today you rarely see recent movies airing on it and when I have watched HBO as well as the sister channels during the special previews it seems that they have an obsession with movies from the 70's 80's and 90's and all the movies that they seem to show are movies like Three Men And A Baby from 1987 Indiana Jones In Raiders Of The Lost Ark from 1984 Total Recall from 1990 to Planes Trains And Automobiles from 1987 and I can't figure out why HBO focuses on showing movies from 30 years ago when they should be showing the recent top movie hits of today. Is HBO planning to transform itself into a retro channel and creating a separate movie channel just for today's movie hits?
I cannot figure out why people pay for HBO with their cable when HBO is going downhill and isn't really worth watching
Bestie

Totally false.

Movie wise, HBO is mostly movies from last year in the theaters and down through the 2000s. I subscribe so I know.