Google TV & "My Watchlist"

by unclefishbits

tl;dr - Organic Google Search "My Watchlist". There it is! Any idea if Google will make this more of a product, with filtering and sorting? I believe putting 100's of titles in a watchlist would make it functionless and not useful without sorting by genre, rating, year, etc?

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So, Google TV is amazing, I left the aggregation of all the shows I am watching. It's just such a game changer, and I got REALLY excited about the watchlist, because the aggregation will help with the fact it's just sprawled across so many streaming services. I sorta asked a similar question this morning where I joked that we were sick of cable, killed it, and now we need it again. LOL

So, it seems Google's "My Watchlist" is suffering from the same "it's not a full product so don't support it". I get it, but trying to figure this out reminds me of trying to find the Grocery List whenever they bounce it around one of their apps, etc. =)

I got excited it might be able to replace Justwatch, but if you can't sort or filter, isn't the "watchlist" ribbon on Google TV just going to end up endlessly scrolling 100's of titles you can penetrate through without sorting or filters?

pawdog

It's not really built for more than 10 or 15 shows anyway. Anytime there is just a single line I'm not getting too excited about it.

[deleted]

I hope they enable the ability to move things in the Watchlist, like you can with the apps. Let me move them around & put them in order.

wgn_luv

I was excited about this feature initially, but the fact that you can't switch between accounts makes it pointless for us on a shared device.

tb21666

All I care about is the ability to turn said 'feature/menu' off.

babsonnexus

This is the #1 issue for me. Watchlist is:

  • One long ribbon that is impossible to find items, with the latest added items at the beginning
  • Combines TV and Movies
  • Has no way to sort, change sorting on the fly (alphabetically, most recent change, added to list, going away soonest)
  • Has no way to filter, group, or anything for any sort of organization
  • Has no profiles (nor the device in general) to separate out all members of the family for their preferences
  • Has no web interface to add titles, only on the TV and the Phone (which don't agree on metadata) and are both clunky to use
  • No way to mark episodes as watched
  • No way to bookmark a show that you've watched all episodes to date, but just want new episodes when they arrive
  • No way to separate out Watched from Unwatched
  • Has bunches of metadata misses
  • Metadata is not timely enough (new episodes should show up by the next day)

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So far, Reelgood is still the better choice (even though it has some of the same issues). Google, can you just do everything Reelgood has done except make it even better?