TVAndMoviesNow.com: Streaming Video Search Engine Extraordinaire! - Page 3

If you click "More Search Options" there's a Genre filter, giving you the choices of All, Action, Animation, Children, Classic, Comedy, Culture, Documentary, Drama, Gay, Horror, Music, Musicals, Mystery, News, Other, Romance, Sci-Fi, Sports, Thrillers, TV or Westerns. (Don't ask me what "Other" is or why there's a need for a TV genre). Personally I wish it was a checklist instead of a group of radio buttons; if you click "All", it would check all of them and when you search it will show you everything matching all of the genres checked, so I could say that I want to see a list of Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller and Action titles.

You can get that at InstantWatcher.com, but I don't trust it much. Perhaps Gabe will add a foreign genre filter to TV&MN, if we ask nicely .

BTW, Gabe, the front page is broken (perhaps when you fixed Jim McC's problem). Now when you enter a textual search term there it's ignored unless there's a specific genre selected.

Also, I searched for Mozart's Sister and it showed as not being HD-available although it is.

I'm sorry--I glossed over "Amazon" in your post. I don't know of any site where you can filter Amazon Prime titles for HD.

I don't think so. Netflix lists 1477 titles in the Foreign genre at their site; if I use your "Culture" filter (which Netflix doesn't list on their site AFAICT), I get 350 titles and some of them are US films with only "Faith & Spirituality" as genres. In fact, I can't really tell what the titles in your "Culture" genre have in common, except that they all seem to be in either the "Foreign Movies", "Independent Movies" or "Faith & Spirituality" genres.

However you generate it, the "Culture" genre doesn't produce a very useful collection of titles. It's three very small subsets of three genres, mashed together.

If it's any consolation, InstantWatcher only catches half as many titles for its "Foreign" genre as Netflix lists.

To handle the large number of genres, maybe you could use pull-down menu of some sort instead of radio buttons? You should at least offer the list of genres at Netflix' site:

• Action & Adventure
• Anime
• Children & Family
• Classics
• Comedies
• Documentaries
• Dramas
• Faith and Spirituality
• Foreign
• Gay & Lesbian
• Horror
• Independent
• Music
• Musicals
• Romance
• Sci-Fi & Fantasy
• Special Interest
• Sports
• TV Shows
• Thrillers

(I removed "HD", since you have a genre-independent filter for that already, as you should ). Some of those, of course, have many subgenres.

Well, they only have 123 Prime Instant Videos in the "Foreign" genre right now, but it is true that they'll only show you 12 at a time in panels and you can only go forward by a page at a time using a control that you have to scroll to the bottom of the page to find. TV&MN can only show you 10 at a time in panels, but you can go forward 4 page at a time and instantly to the first and last pages with controls at both the top and bottom of the page (these are suggestions that I recall making during development, if I say so myself ).

I forget the reason why there're are only 10 titles displayed at a time--I think that it had something to do with the API for Amazon?

Finding that page number at the end of their 500+ character URL is one ugly workaround .

It would appear to be momentarily broken (or Netflix is). I'll PM Ranger One about it.

Hey--don't thank me. Thank forum member Ranger One (aka Gabe Gagliano) who wrote and maintains this thing.