Ask Slashdot: Movie/Video Search Aggregation? 96
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raolin writes "I have been running without television service for the last few years, relying instead on Netflix Streaming, Hulu Plus, Amazon, and my personal video library. I have the latter indexed and easily searchable, but I have not managed to find a good aggregator for the streaming services that I use, so when I have friends over and the question 'Can we see X?' is asked, I have to search three streaming sources, which is kind of a drag. I know Netflix has a search API that I could work with, and it seems at least possible that Hulu and Amazon do as well, but before I try to build something myself I thought I'd ask the community. Any thoughts?"
I have never used it (Score:5, Informative)
GoWatchit.com is just such a service (Score:2, Informative)
Solution already exists... (Score:2, Informative)
Have you tried http://zinc.tv? It works for me and does more than your 4 sites.
google TV has it. (Score:2, Informative)
googletv has it. i have Logitech Revue and it lets you search by name and displays where its available. but it not support hulu. searches amazon, netflix, cable, movie packages.
Re:google TV has it. (Score:2, Informative)
if you configured your external media accounts in googletv, it will tell you whether its free/paid/rent and provides links to each.
GoogleTV Search is neat.
Re:GoWatchit.com is just such a service (Score:2, Informative)
Check out http://www.canistream.it
It tells you the ones that are free versus paid. There are also iPhone and Android apps.