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> There are probably a few ways to improve things. Cross-platform search should be standard by now. A shared watchlist across services would help. Apple tried this with the TV app on their AppleTVs. It was supposed to pull all your subscriptions into one interface, searchable, with tracking and watchlists and all that good stuff. One unified app to all your content. Then Netflix said they weren't going to play ball,…
If only there was dozens of services for this exact issue. this took me less than a few minutes with classic non-LLM search: https://imdb.com https://www.justwatch.com/ https://streamsearchup.com/ https://www.wheretowatch.stream/ https://streamfinder.co/ https://findmystreams.com/ https://lookupvod.com/en
Any suggestions on which of these are usable? justwatch.com used to be amazing, but it's increasingly getting enshittified: they seem to be intentionally making their presentation _less_ clear so they can show ads for "similar content available on…" :-(
Usually Justwatch should be able to tell you where something is available. However I will note that it's remarkably common for something slightly old to just not be available anywhere. You cannot watch Das Boot in my region on any service so far as I can see. So I guess you loan from the library or buy DVDs off of ebay or something?
> There are probably a few ways to improve things. Cross-platform search should be standard by now. A shared watchlist across services would help. Apple tried this with the TV app on their AppleTVs. It was supposed to pull all your subscriptions into one interface, searchable, with tracking and watchlists and all that good stuff. One unified app to all your content. Then Netflix said they weren't going to play ball,…
I find that it's actually more annoying than it is useful
If only there was dozens of services for this exact issue. this took me less than a few minutes with classic non-LLM search: https://imdb.com https://www.justwatch.com/ https://streamsearchup.com/ https://www.wheretowatch.stream/ https://streamfinder.co/ https://findmystreams.com/ https://lookupvod.com/en
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You remember incorrectly. The first real commercial on-demand streaming service to gain traction was Netflix, and it exploded in popularity precisely because it did have "almost everything". One reasonable price, practically everything worth watching. That was the original promise.
It really wasn't. Early streaming (like 2012-ish, after cord-cutting was possible but before it was mainstream) had Netflix and Hulu as the two major services, and so anything that was on streaming was on one of those two. But lots and lots of stuff just wasn't on streaming at all. If you subscribed to Netflix back then, you probably subscribed to both the streaming and the disc-mailing plan, because there were enoug…
That's true today, Netflix just misses those gaps outright now.