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44 points by johnb 14y ago

drunkenfly 14y ago
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.
- johnb 14y ago
  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.
tejaswiy 14y ago
What a great rating system. Love the site, thanks!
wolfeidau 14y ago
Site is a joy to use, and enjoying the new design touches. The iTunes option is a great addition. Keep it up!
- johnb 14y ago
  Thanks so much. It's amazing what hiring a genuinely talented designer can do.
mikecane 14y ago
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 http://goodfil.ms/film/264469-quest-for-love
- johnb 14y ago
  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.
  - andysinclair 14y ago
    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.
  - mikecane 14y ago
    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.
panacea 14y ago
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?
- johnb 14y ago
  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.
gshahlot 14y ago
I got https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9556373/error.png https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9556373/error.png on Chrome v22. Redirects correctly on refresh though.
- johnb 14y ago
  Odd. If it's not too weird to ask, could you send your IP to help@goodfil.ms so I can test our IP detection logic?
- thomas11 14y ago
  I got the same on Firefox 16.0.1, Mac OS.
nedwin 14y ago
Thank you! 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.
JackWebbHeller 14y ago
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?!
- johnb 14y ago
  Some of them have made it onto Netflix (see http://goodfil.ms/films/on_netflix/recently_released 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.
  - JackWebbHeller 14y ago
    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 :)
    - JackWebbHeller 14y ago
      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...
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flexie 14y ago
It's such a pain to search on iTunes so it's great you made this site :-) Did you scrape the info or is there an API?
- johnb 14y ago
  There is a huge (tarred or zipped, I'm unsure as @geelen did the work) database dump of all the itunes store content for affiliates.
jachwe 14y ago
"Sorry, but Goodfilms doesn't run on older versions of Internet Explorer at this time." I really support this. But not if i'm getting this in Chrome 22. And theres no way around.
- kenshi 14y ago
  Got this using Safari 6.0 on OSX too
- Avenger42 14y ago
  I'm running Chrome 22 as well and I didn't get the error.
benologist 14y ago
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.
alexdias 14y ago
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.

44 points by johnb 14y ago

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.

johnb 14y ago
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.

tejaswiy 14y ago

What a great rating system. Love the site, thanks!

wolfeidau 14y ago

Site is a joy to use, and enjoying the new design touches. The iTunes option is a great addition. Keep it up!

johnb 14y ago
Thanks so much. It's amazing what hiring a genuinely talented designer can do.

mikecane 14y ago

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 http://goodfil.ms/film/264469-quest-for-love

johnb 14y ago
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.
- andysinclair 14y ago
  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.
- mikecane 14y ago
  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.

panacea 14y ago

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?

johnb 14y ago
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.

gshahlot 14y ago

I got https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9556373/error.png https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9556373/error.png on Chrome v22. Redirects correctly on refresh though.

johnb 14y ago
Odd. If it's not too weird to ask, could you send your IP to help@goodfil.ms so I can test our IP detection logic?
thomas11 14y ago
I got the same on Firefox 16.0.1, Mac OS.

nedwin 14y ago

Thank you! 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.

JackWebbHeller 14y ago

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?!

johnb 14y ago
Some of them have made it onto Netflix (see http://goodfil.ms/films/on_netflix/recently_released 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.
- JackWebbHeller 14y ago
  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 :)
  - JackWebbHeller 14y ago
    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...
- deleted 14y ago

flexie 14y ago

It's such a pain to search on iTunes so it's great you made this site :-) Did you scrape the info or is there an API?

johnb 14y ago
There is a huge (tarred or zipped, I'm unsure as @geelen did the work) database dump of all the itunes store content for affiliates.

jachwe 14y ago

"Sorry, but Goodfilms doesn't run on older versions of Internet Explorer at this time." I really support this. But not if i'm getting this in Chrome 22. And theres no way around.

kenshi 14y ago
Got this using Safari 6.0 on OSX too
Avenger42 14y ago
I'm running Chrome 22 as well and I didn't get the error.

benologist 14y ago

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.

alexdias 14y ago

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.