I think that the filters is a really powerful tool to help a person find a good movie to watch without spending tons of time combing through his or her collection. I've got a large collection of movies. How many movies I have? I'm not actually sure. It's something around 1200, but I can't know unless I go into each bundle and count... and then subtract any that might be doubled.
For example I bought Skyfall when it came out. I didn't have Casino Royale or Quantum of Solace. When the Daniel Craig collection was available, I bought it for the remaining 2, even though the Skyfall was redundant.
(I'd love to be able to gift away made-redundant movies to others, just like I could give an extra blu-ray disc away, but that's a tangent I won't delve into today.)
Anyway, so if I go into movies, say I want to watch an action movie, sort it by release date, and filter it to require 80%+ tomatometer, something interesting happens. Even though I own Casino Royale, it's not in my list. This is because the bundle appears to have its own metadata and is filtered and sorted in as such.
First, it says it has a release date of 2012, as a bundle. That's not true, as it just came out... but that appears to be the release date of the newest movie. Next, it appears to have a rotten tomatoes value of 0%, as a bundle. As do all of the Bond collections, and the indiana jones collection. This is true even though the lowest movie in the collection, Quantum of Solace, is in the 60s. This makes all these movies are effectively unsortable. Not a huge issue for a small collection where you know all your movies or it only takes a couple minutes to sort through, but awful in a large movie collection like my own.
I feel as if Vudu has known these bundles were unpopular for years, but think of it as a problem of obsessive collection fanatics but not a utilitarian problem. I'm just saying that on a practical level, if I am trying to find movies based on certain parameters, anything in a bundle is effectively gone. Yes, I can go and watch Casino Royale manually by scrolling through or searching for the bundle directly and going in. Often though, I don't know what movie I want to watch and am interested in browsing based on parameters. I can't do that with bundled movies.
If you really don't want to break the bundles, why not have each movie just appear individually, but with a logo tying it to its bundle. Clicking on it could even take me into the bundle and I'd go from there to my movie directly. Just have each bundled movie show up individually with its own metadata. Then I can sort through my WHOLE collection, and the bundles are still intact.
For example I bought Skyfall when it came out. I didn't have Casino Royale or Quantum of Solace. When the Daniel Craig collection was available, I bought it for the remaining 2, even though the Skyfall was redundant.
(I'd love to be able to gift away made-redundant movies to others, just like I could give an extra blu-ray disc away, but that's a tangent I won't delve into today.)
Anyway, so if I go into movies, say I want to watch an action movie, sort it by release date, and filter it to require 80%+ tomatometer, something interesting happens. Even though I own Casino Royale, it's not in my list. This is because the bundle appears to have its own metadata and is filtered and sorted in as such.
First, it says it has a release date of 2012, as a bundle. That's not true, as it just came out... but that appears to be the release date of the newest movie. Next, it appears to have a rotten tomatoes value of 0%, as a bundle. As do all of the Bond collections, and the indiana jones collection. This is true even though the lowest movie in the collection, Quantum of Solace, is in the 60s. This makes all these movies are effectively unsortable. Not a huge issue for a small collection where you know all your movies or it only takes a couple minutes to sort through, but awful in a large movie collection like my own.
I feel as if Vudu has known these bundles were unpopular for years, but think of it as a problem of obsessive collection fanatics but not a utilitarian problem. I'm just saying that on a practical level, if I am trying to find movies based on certain parameters, anything in a bundle is effectively gone. Yes, I can go and watch Casino Royale manually by scrolling through or searching for the bundle directly and going in. Often though, I don't know what movie I want to watch and am interested in browsing based on parameters. I can't do that with bundled movies.
If you really don't want to break the bundles, why not have each movie just appear individually, but with a logo tying it to its bundle. Clicking on it could even take me into the bundle and I'd go from there to my movie directly. Just have each bundled movie show up individually with its own metadata. Then I can sort through my WHOLE collection, and the bundles are still intact.
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