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A directory of Netflix's “secret” categories
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
YouTube and Twitch have grown to become about 90% of my video consumption. The increasingly cheap pro-sumer quality A/V equipment and software have made the production values go up significantly in recent years, making the regular production of high-quality shows much more viable.
Any recommendations? :)
Oh it's really all about personal preference. I mostly subscribe to tech news & reviews and "let's play" type gaming content, along with some cooking/woodworking/metalworking stuff. Off the top of my head I mostly watch MKBHD, Tested, Cinemassacre, CynicalBrit, Lazy Game Reviews, Frank Howarth, and enough smaller channels to fill in the gaps.
Edit: Oh and LinusTechTips, I can't believe how long it took me to get on board with that channel.
Re: A directory of Netflix's “secret” categories
#43Most of these categories aren't 'hidden'.
If you select one of the main genres on Netflix, almost all of them will then have a "sub-genre" picker which, as far as I can tell, includes most if not all of these.
Sure, this site lets you see them all at once without having to choose a parent genre first, but it doesn't seem like that big of deal.
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Wasn't Red Green on Netflix at one point, too?
I can't remember, but it's all on youtube now: https://www.youtube.com/user/RedGreenTV
Well, thank you for that. Growing up in Michigan, we had a bit of Canadian cross-over stuff [1], and I saw quite a bit of that show back in the era before on-demand. We never really had cable. Definitely some good hacker-esque skits in there, though I never felt the shows as a whole quite gelled in their overarching plots.
[1]: Double the Olympics coverage being the best. Curling is overmocked. It is mockable, yes, but it is overmocked.
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#45I've always longed for better filtering/sorting options on the home screen. Currently I believe you have to go into one of the category screens to have sorting options. My other pet peeve with Netflix is the duplication of content across several of the home screen categories. Some are almost identical at times, just in different orders.
I would love to sort on rating, and I've never seen a way to do that. It would be the single biggest thing that would increase my use of Netflix.
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#46It would be nice if Netflix made it easier to browse content rather than choosing what categories to display and show to you. It can get stuck thinking your really like a genre, and the recommendation engine can penalize you too much for too many likes or dislikes. Now that the website is a bit more focused towards streaming-on-computer it's somewhat harder to browse and prepare a queue. It feels that some content is…
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Re: A directory of Netflix's “secret” categories
#47The best shows are those that don't fit a particular category, or that grow to move between categories. Lots of great british TV bounces between comedy and drama (sherlock, cuffs). Some American shows cannot be pinned to a specific age range (simpsons). I still laugh when I see TopGear listed as "informational/other" by my cable company. Also ... (i just noticed) Australian Movies 5230 Belgian Movies 262 Korean Movie…
Maybe Netflix is claiming Trailer Park Boys now. That is totally Canadian. It's not a rocket appliance.
They do call it a "Netflix Original", which I guess means it's "original" in the sense that Arrested Development was an "original" (i.e. first run episodes)
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
YouTube and Twitch have grown to become about 90% of my video consumption. The increasingly cheap pro-sumer quality A/V equipment and software have made the production values go up significantly in recent years, making the regular production of high-quality shows much more viable.
Any recommendations? :)
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Re: A directory of Netflix's “secret” categories
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I'm not finding that catagory, but I'm on my work machine atm.
There are a bunch of categories in the OP list I don't see either. Canadian happens to be on my mine, for whatever reason. Pretty annoying. (Almost as much as continuously recommending movies that I've already watched and rated.)
The Canadian category (nor any "Canada/ian" category) is not present in the version of the "cheat list" I ran across.
It does work for me, though, in the U.S.
From my experience with the list I have, I am guessing that if your region, at the time you look, does not have any matches for the category, you get the "unavailable" response instead of an empty list.
I will note that the Canadian region has a number of items that do not show up in the above category in the U.S. region. Including several enjoyable comedies.
Also, there are some Canadian items I'm aware of that are available in the U.S. but are not showing up in that category. I guess some of those are TV shows rather than "Canadian Movies". I wonder whether there is a category ID for Canadian TV shows -- probably. Anyone have it?
Overall, from the recent list leak, it appears that Netflix has not, or not always, had a single, authoritative categorization. Probably multiple people/groups defining, including at different times, their own categories that often overlap. Also, I wonder whether internally they have tagging, with these category ID's defining/exposing specific combinations of that tagging.
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I can't remember, but it's all on youtube now: https://www.youtube.com/user/RedGreenTV
Well, thank you for that. Growing up in Michigan, we had a bit of Canadian cross-over stuff [1], and I saw quite a bit of that show back in the era before on-demand. We never really had cable. Definitely some good hacker-esque skits in there, though I never felt the shows as a whole quite gelled in their overarching plots. [1]: Double the Olympics coverage being the best. Curling is overmocked. It is mockable, yes, b…
In the... 2010, it was, Olympic games, NBC, the official broadcaster in the U.S., had so "sliced and diced" its presentation that I found its main coverage unwatchable. However, on one of its lesser affiliates, it was carrying... "second or third tier", per its judgement, sports coverage largely intact.
One particular item on it, that I ran across just by chance channel-surfing, was coverage of the women's curling. Complete games, quietly but informatively commentated. This introduced me to curling (beyond a passing "stones on ice" familiarity), and I ended up really enjoying it. To boot, it came down to Canada versus Sweden in a rather exciting set of rounds of elimination.
Some of it can be fairly parochial and/or simple, but the CBC et al. also put out some pretty good stuff. Including items that don't try to be more than they are, but do an excellent job at that.
Hopefully, under Trudeau et al., they will be released from the manufactured chokehold that has been squeezing the life out of them. And, any force that cuts down crap such as the ueber-commercialization of the Olympics, I welcome.