More than a universal interface, I would like some to build a website that allows me to enter a show and find out where it is available as part of the normal streaming world. Not as a pay per view. You guys have all of the channels, so eventually you can figure it out and you will be able to watch that show. Normal people can spend consi…
More than a universal interface, I would like some to build a website that allows me to enter a show and find out where it is available as part of the normal streaming world. Not as a pay per view. You guys have all of the channels, so eventually you can figure it out and you will be able to watch that show. Normal people can spend considerable time looking and following multiple false leads, ultimately find out that show is not on a service you subscribe to and now you are just frustrated. I can enter an old movie in to a google search and it appears that show is everywhere, because maybe it was on Netflix once, or more likely it is available for a fee almost everywhere. I would like to see a defined list of which streaming services have it available right now. Perhaps followed up with a list of future showings, finally a list of pay as you go options.
Plex is a channel that will tell you where to see the show/movie you’re looking for, just search They might not cover all the services, like Pure Flix or Criterion but I believe they include all the well known services. Plex also plays some shows and movies as well.
I use Roku and the Home Screen search works pretty well for this. The one exception would be YouTube content where I pretty much go do a follow on search if it does not come up in the Roku results.
An Amazon fire stick is a good investment. I paid about $50 for mine. I get an incredible amount of free content, and using the TV fire stick remote I can ask Alexa to find me specific shows. Alexa lets me know which platforms have the show, and if it's free or not. One thing it doesn't search is archive.org, which has public domain content at no charge. If I'm looking for old stuff and Alexa says I'll need to pay to watch on a platform, I check archive.org first. And there's always the library if you have a lot of patience.
More than a universal interface, I would like some to build a website that allows me to enter a show and find out where it is available as part of the normal streaming world. Not as a pay per view. You guys have all of the channels, so eventually you can figure it out and you will be able to watch that show. Normal people can spend considerable time looking and following multiple false leads, ultimately find out that show is not on a service you subscribe to and now you are just frustrated. I can enter an old movie in to a google search and it appears that show is everywhere, because maybe it was on Netflix once, or more likely it is available for a fee almost everywhere. I would like to see a defined list of which streaming services have it available right now. Perhaps followed up with a list of future showings, finally a list of pay as you go options.
Justwatch.com
It gives you the service to stream all movies and series.
You can enter the services you have and shows not streaming you want and get a notice when it goes to streaming.
IMDB app
Plex is a channel that will tell you where to see the show/movie you’re looking for, just search They might not cover all the services, like Pure Flix or Criterion but I believe they include all the well known services. Plex also plays some shows and movies as well.
I use Roku and the Home Screen search works pretty well for this. The one exception would be YouTube content where I pretty much go do a follow on search if it does not come up in the Roku results.
An Amazon fire stick is a good investment. I paid about $50 for mine. I get an incredible amount of free content, and using the TV fire stick remote I can ask Alexa to find me specific shows. Alexa lets me know which platforms have the show, and if it's free or not. One thing it doesn't search is archive.org, which has public domain content at no charge. If I'm looking for old stuff and Alexa says I'll need to pay to watch on a platform, I check archive.org first. And there's always the library if you have a lot of patience.
Thanks for this suggestion as well.
I use JustWatch for that. I don't know how popular or well known it is
It looks promising, thank you for the suggestion.