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Where can you stream that movie or show

GeneralEdward Kiledjian

Discover and track your favorite movies and TV shows across multiple streaming platforms with JustWatch.com, the ultimate streaming assistant that simplifies your viewing experience.


What do you think of the vast selection of movies and TV shows on various streaming platforms? Or do you need help keeping up with the latest content on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Apple TV, and other services? JustWatch.com simplifies your streaming experience and ensures you never miss out on your favourite entertainment.

JustWatch.com: Your Streaming Assistant

It is a search engine and database that helps you locate where you can legally watch your favourite movies and TV shows. In addition, it keeps you informed about new releases on popular streaming platforms, such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, Apple TV, and many others. You can easily navigate the vast world of online entertainment due to the user-friendly interface and simple filter system.

Tracking Your Favorites Made Easy

A standout feature of JustWatch.com is its ability to help users keep track of their favourite movies and TV shows. By creating an account, you can maintain a personalized watchlist and receive notifications when a title becomes available on your preferred streaming service. It ensures you are always up-to-date and never miss out on exciting new content.

Filtering Your Options

On JustWatch.com, users can narrow their choices based on various criteria using the easy-to-use filter system. Filtering content according to the genre, release year, age rating, and more is possible, making it much easier to find exactly what you are looking for. These filters make it easier to discover your next binge-worthy television show or critically acclaimed film.

Stay Updated with New Releases

The ever-evolving landscape of streaming platforms and their content makes it difficult to keep up with new releases. JustWatch.com addresses this problem by giving users regular updates regarding the latest additions to their favourite streaming services. No more endlessly scrolling through platforms or missing out on the latest must-see television shows and films!

An Example

I visit the main site

I search for the movie called “Agent 47”

I can immediately get a synopsis of the movie and a list of where I can buy, rent or stream it.

Conclusion

JustWatch.com simplifies finding and keeping track of your favourite streaming content for streaming enthusiasts. Discovering your next entertainment fix has always been challenging with its user-friendly interface, personalized watchlist feature, and comprehensive filter system.

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Sites to legally watch streaming movies

GeneralEdward Kiledjian
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Most of us have multiple streaming service subscriptions (Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, etc). As money becomes tighter, some want to lighten their monthly subscription spend and here are some legal ways to stream.

Kanopy

Kanopy offers an interesting portfolio of artistic and classic films. Before you close this page thinking the content is low-grade, know that they even have some films from the Criterion collection.

Kanopy also supports AppleTV, Roku, Chromecast, AndroidTV, FireTV and SamsungTV.

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The catch is that you have to be a member of an organization that is subscribed to their service (local library or University ) The one important note is that their film catalogue changes regularly so if you see a film you want to watch, stream it quickly.

Popcornflix

I know the name sounds like one of those Android side-loadable illegal BitTorrent streaming "services" but it isn't. Popcornflix offers comedies and mainstream movies (many recent releases) for free in exchange for inserting ads while you watch. You can watch Popcornflix through any modern web browser or via apps on Roku, AppleTV, Google Play, Amazon or Xbox.

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Internet Archive

Many technical geeks know Internet Archive for their service that is trying to archive the web for posterity.

In addition to that noble cause, they also store and stream a considerable amount of classic black and white films (from days gone by). The Internet Archive waits until the copyright expires and then stores and streams it. Everything they stream is in the original unedited format.

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Crackle

Crackle has been around for a while but never seems to have caught on. Owned by Sony, it offers relatively modern TV shows and movies for free. They monetize the service by inserting ads. Crackle offers some cult classic films that other platforms don't, so it is worth a look.

Hoopla

Similar to Kanopy, Hoopla requires you to be a member of a library that offers its services. Hoopla is owned by Midwest Tape, a company that supplies libraries with DVDs, CDs and audiobooks.

You sign up using your library card and you will instantly gain access to hundreds of movies and TV shows. Hoopla works via your web browser, on most tablets (Android, iPad), Smartphones (Android and iPhone) or on TV-connected devices like AppleTV, AndroidTV, Chromecasts, Roku and FireTV.

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Watch Netflix safely in the office

GeneralEdward Kiledjian

A new Chrome extension (called Netflix Hangouts) will make your Netflix stream look like a 4 person video conference by adding 3 additional video boxes onscreen. The Netflix show is housed in the bottom right hand box. You engage the extension by clicking on it and you stop it by clicking on it again (or closing the Netflix tab).

This will not trick network based traffic inspection devices. It just makes the screen look more business like. If your company employs network base traffic analysis, you may want to VPN out first.

Google Home forced me to switch to Spotify

GeneralEdward Kiledjian


Tech titans Google and Amazon chose Christmas 2017 to battle it out for your love and money. These smart speakers are designed to quickly provide access to each company's ecosystem and make your life easier. At least that is the promise. 

I am heavily invested in the Google ecosystem and have been for over ten years. In addition to using their free services, I pay for Google Music, storage, have an android phone (so I buy apps), etc. 

I signed up for the free Google Apps service in 2007 (predecessor to GSuite) when each domain was given 100 free user accounts. This was a great way to provide essential internet services to my family for my kiledjian.com domain (emails, calendar, etc.)

The Google home

These devices can answer questions about science, history and everything in between. Most buyers use these smart speakers as intelligent modern voice-controlled boomboxes. 

I have owned a Google home almost from its original release date and picked up a Google home mini for my bedroom. 

In addition to making money from the sale of these devices, companies like Amazon and Google hope to lock users into the ecosystem. Except...

The Google Home and Google's account issues forced me to move from Google Music to Spotify.

The music problem GSuite accounts

With an individual music subscription, I can only stream to a single device at a time. I can't listen to music on my smartphone in the gym while my kids listen to music at home. 

I tried to upgrade to a family account, only to be told by a support agent that GSuite accounts are not eligible. So if I wanted to enable on-demand commercial-free music on my multiple devices, I needed to move to Spotify, which I begrudgingly did.

Rant

There have always been irritants when using Gsuite (Google Apps) accounts with some Google services. Until now, all of my issues have been irritants for me, but have not affected Google, which may be why they have never solved this issue. 

This is a situation where their complacency has cost them subscription dollars (steady recurring income). I know that only a small minority of Google's millions of users are affected by this issue, but I receive a constant flow of complaints from my readers about it. 

This is the issue when dealing with giant faceless internet companies like Google. No matter how annoying some of their actions may be, there is nothing you can do as a customer. Your only option is to pick up and spend your money elsewhere. 

Amazon Music Unlimited expands to 28 more countries. So what?

GeneralEdward Kiledjian

Amazon Music Unlimited is (in my opinion) just another streaming music service, but since it's Amazon, it's worth mentioning. 

It is expanding to 28 additional countries, so the world a little more inclusive today. Similar to another (nameless) streaming service, Amazon Music Unlimited stresses the fact that its playlists are "human curated". 

The requisite PR created launch statement can be found here

Customers can choose from content hand-curated by Amazon Music experts, build their own playlists, or find new favorites through Amazon’s personalized recommendations either on the Amazon Music app or Web Player.

The new countries being shown some love by Amazon are:

  • Belgium
  • Iceland
  • Bolivia
  • Latvia
  • Bulgaria
  • Liechtenstein
  • Chile
  • Lithuania
  • Colombia
  • Luxembourg
  • Costa Rica
  • Malta
  • Cyprus
  • Netherlands
  • Czech Republic
  • Panama
  • Ecuador
  • Peru
  • El Salvador
  • Poland
  • Estonia
  • Portugal
  • Finland
  • Slovakia
  • Greece
  • Sweden
  • Hungary
  • Uruguay

I live in Canada, and the Echo product line just launched here. Chances are the country you are in (if not the US) either doesn't have or just received the Amazon Echo line of products. For those of us not yet invested in the Amazon voice assistant product line, there is little to get excited here. 

Not very exciting for most of you but news worthy since its Amazon.