Show HN: All films for rental on iTunes (in 61 stores) by price/popularity/genre(goodfil.ms)
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Show HN: All films for rental on iTunes (in 61 stores) by price/popularity/genre
http://goodfil.ms/films/on_itunes
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Thanks for the really useful tool. Great implementation of infinite scrolling too, but perhaps the small footer bar could be fixed in the viewport so we can click the links without more films loading and pushing it down?
This is also a bit off-topic, but what with Skyfall coming out this month, I wanted to watch Casino Royale on my Apple TV - only to find out that none of the James Bond movies are available on iTunes - not to rent, not to purchase. I know there are always issues with licensing and copyrights in the film and TV industry but does anybody know of any specific reasons why one of the most popular creative franchises of all time isn't available from the biggest digital media distributor out there?!
This is also a bit off-topic, but what with Skyfall coming out this month, I wanted to watch Casino Royale on my Apple TV - only to find out that none of the James Bond movies are available on iTunes - not to rent, not to purchase. I know there are always issues with licensing and copyrights in the film and TV industry but does anybody know of any specific reasons why one of the most popular creative franchises of all time isn't available from the biggest digital media distributor out there?!
Some of them have made it onto Netflix (see http://goodfil.ms/films/on_netflix/recently_released)
Trying to "fix" the severe segmentation problems between the various online streaming services is one of the things we're aiming to fix with Goodfilms. It's so annoying when you want to legally rent content but first you've got to do a mission to figure out where on earth you can get it from.
Trying to "fix" the severe segmentation problems between the various online streaming services is one of the things we're aiming to fix with Goodfilms. It's so annoying when you want to legally rent content but first you've got to do a mission to figure out where on earth you can get it from.
Thanks for the Netflix link. Next problem? I'm in the UK, and so of course one of the most well-known English characters isn't available to stream from Netflix UK... sigh
I completely agree the segmentation issue. You'd have thought doing it legally is so much more convenient but it just doesn't seem to be like that.
You've got a new Goodfilms user in me though :)
I completely agree the segmentation issue. You'd have thought doing it legally is so much more convenient but it just doesn't seem to be like that.
You've got a new Goodfilms user in me though :)
Sorry for the double-reply but thought I should point out another issue along the same UK/US-divide lines. I just connected my Netflix UK account to Goodfilms, which proceeds to go and add my Goodfilms queue into my Netflix queue.
Netflix UK doesn't have a queue...
Netflix UK doesn't have a queue...
Thanks for building this so I don't have to spend any energy trying to build it. :)
We face this problem every time we want to watch a movie on our Apple TV. We first have to search Netflix, then search iTunes, then search other venues. Aggregating it all is a great idea. And this one is well executed too.
We face this problem every time we want to watch a movie on our Apple TV. We first have to search Netflix, then search iTunes, then search other venues. Aggregating it all is a great idea. And this one is well executed too.
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Good job, but the data could use a little more refinement.
I'm in Portugal, and for instance The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is shown as being available for 3,99€. The movie page then lists the movie as being available for rent at $3.99 (SD) or $4.99 (HD).
When I open the iTunes store though, the movie is only available for purchase at 13,99€.
I take it that your movie page gets the data from the US store, but from a user experience point of view it should get the data from the user's country.
I'm in Portugal, and for instance The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is shown as being available for 3,99€. The movie page then lists the movie as being available for rent at $3.99 (SD) or $4.99 (HD).
When I open the iTunes store though, the movie is only available for purchase at 13,99€.
I take it that your movie page gets the data from the US store, but from a user experience point of view it should get the data from the user's country.
I live in UK, but currently in Denmark. Site detected that I am coming from Denmark, but I set it to look into UK Store. Now, when I click on movie, Source Code, the price presented to me is in dollars (and quite excessive being $39 for HD and $29 for SD). What happened to GBP?
Now I click to rent it - I am landing in Denmark iTunes store. Not sure is it a problem of goodfil.ms or iTunes store.
Hmmmn, it's probably a bit of both.
We need to save in session when you switch store to change what you see on a specific film page. But then I'm pretty sure we send you to a generic itunes URL per item and you're being redirected by them. Maybe.
We need to save in session when you switch store to change what you see on a specific film page. But then I'm pretty sure we send you to a generic itunes URL per item and you're being redirected by them. Maybe.
I like what I see, but I'm puzzled. Searched for a movie, found, but can't see the price for it in the listing.
http://goodfil.ms/film/264469-quest-for-love
Using the search box? That will search goodfilms globally, not just within the itunes area of the site... but that does give me an idea.
Yes, I used the search box, which was also a bit misleading as autocomplete had a limited number of auto-choices, none of which were that film. I just searched using the word quest and hit Return to press my luck.
I expected to the see the price as well. Would be great if you could show the rental/buy price if available as often that is more of a determinate than reviews/star rating.
Please add a section for films on sale, especially HD ones. It always surprises me that there isn't some definitive "watch this space for bargains" for movies outside iTunes like there is with games.
I got https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9556373/error.png on Chrome v22. Redirects correctly on refresh though.
Odd. If it's not too weird to ask, could you send your IP to [email protected] so I can test our IP detection logic?
I got the same on Firefox 16.0.1, Mac OS.
Is there a way to see the top 4 films for all countries at once instead of having to individually select each from the (really nice) drop down menu?
Not yet. So far you're the only person that's brought it up, if there's some more interest we might look at doing an "aggregate itunes" view somehow.
What a great rating system. Love the site, thanks!
iTunes is terrible to search for films to watch. Previously I've used Goodfilms to search for films but had to resort to torrenting if not available in iTunes.
The main benefit for iTunes being super fast download times guaranteed.