Older Amazon Fire TV devices are set to lose support for HBO Max, due to a lack of software updates as Amazon switches to its new 'Vega' operating system, and it could affect 'millions' — I hope you already caught up with The Pitt…
- HBO Max now requires Fire OS 6 or later on Fire TV devices
- Some Fire OS 5 devices were sold as recently as 2020
- Fire OS has been superseded by Vega OS on newer devices
If you have a Fire TV device from 2020 or earlier you may lose access to the HBO Max app — it only affects you if your device is running Fire OS 5, but that's still estimated to be "millions" of people, potentially.
The news comes via AFTVnews, which spotted that the HBO Max app support page has been updated and details Fire OS 6 as the oldest supported version of Amazon's TV OS.
That's bad news if you have the older OS, because while Amazon does deliver software updates to existing hardware, it almost never upgrades the version of the operating system.
AFTVnews notes that "this likely leaves millions of Fire...
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