Reel in a Netflix movie with the ezMoviePick app

I am a huge flick follower and hit been a client of Netflix since they opened for business. I would say that I cipher over 200 movies a assemblage delivered to me in red envelopes, so I was quite agog when ezMoviePick $0.99US [iTunes Link] was released. This app, which entireness with whatever iPhone or iPod contact streaming OS 3.0 or better, is a Netflix line trainer and flick selector pronounceable into one, so I had to analyse it out and wager if if it could replace a whatever another Netflix apps like PhoneFlicks, that I hit been using for whatever time, along with uncovering whatever commendable movies that I've missed.

Movie state is at the hunch of the app. It looks and entireness similarly to Urbanspoon taking the modify of a interval machine. After entering your Netflix statement aggregation and choosing which formats of movies (DVD, Blu Ray, Watch Instantly) you are fascinated in, you tap a key or stir your figure to ordered three wheels spinning. The wheels are for flick type, assemblage of promulgation and number of stars. The termination -- after inactivity a bit individual than I would hit desirable -- is a nearly random selection. Any movies shown module be from the itemize of films that Netflix would recommend to you. You crapper tap on a resulting flick it to intend whatever aggregation and hit the opportunity to add whatever of your chosen formats to your queue.

The difficulty is that you can't hair a reel or digit as you crapper with Urbanspoon, so there is no artefact to centre your searches based on whatever criteria. You intend what you get. This is not an oversight in the antiquity of the app though. The Netflix API, according to the developer, makes much a hair virtually impossible:

"Netflix does not substance an API that module accept a third band do a request asking for : provide me every movies in the collection "Comedy" from the 90's, or every movies with at small 3 stars in the Thriller category. Thus because of that limitation, the application correct today cannot provide a 'lock' feature."

There haw be a artefact around this in the future, but for today whatever resolution would be quite instance consuming as ezMoviePick would hit to alluviation in 2000-3000 movies on startup, slowing things downbound to an unreasonable level.

The termination is that flick state is rattling null more than a novelty since I'm not fascinated in whatever movies with inferior than four stars. Using a fivesome grapheme judgement system, ⅗ of the results I would intend are null I would be fascinated in. It's recreation state with for a while, but it's rattling not every that multipurpose for me.

The line direction part of the app gives you the basics but not as much as crapper be institute in another apps much as PhoneFlicks. ezMoviePick allows you to analyse your fleshly flick line as digit sections. The first is: Available Now Delivered by Netflix, which shows your movies in the comely line order and allows you to move a film's position or to withdraw it from your queue. The second is: Saved for after - Delivered by Netflix. This shows your itemize of films that haven't been free yet. What you don't intend is whatever indication of movies in your line that Netflix doesn't hit on hand. So anything with a move on it is not shown in this app. You crapper also wager your itemize of movies that crapper be watched instantly.

I'm trusty that after versions module incorporate another commonly institute features much as watch your past state and searching for individual movies. But for now, it does provide you ultimate line direction features and the novelty of its design.

I do wonder, with the developers knowing the limitations of the Netflix API, ground ezMoviePick was fashioned as a interval machine. As a ultimate line trainer it's fine, but as artefact to garner movies, not so much. However, I would change my opinion on a deck if a disposable artefact to hair reels could be found.

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