Web streaming service Shomi shutting down | TV | Entertainment | Toronto Sun

Wow, how long were they offering this service? 6 months?

Tough market. Digital media is a hard sell with all the access these days. They are really just "renting" the interface. And it needs to be damn good before I'll pay monthly fees for it.

What was Shomi charging, $4 a month like Crave is? Shows how bad the Canadian cable companies have shit the bed and are now paying the price for gouging the customers for all those years if no one wants to add less than $10 a month to their bill. The concept of Shomi and Crave is actually pretty good. Log in, select, and watch without commercials and without worrying about getting arrested as opposed to torrenting. Too bad it's being run by cable companies that simply CANNOT BE TRUSTED!

I think part of it is Shomi's selection. It's not very good compared to Crave which has most of HBO's current and past catalogue. If I had a smart TV or if CRave had an app for my PS4 I'd get it.

What? People won't pay extra to watch old Seinfeld reruns on demand and binge watch Dexter only up to season 3? Shocking.

Just this summer I was given free Shomi for 2years as part of an internet package upgrade. Looked at it for 5 minimum and was like "nope!"

They don't have any of the good stuff, just a random collection of mainstream network prime time junk I don't watch anyways.

Nothing's changed. When we got sat tv years ago they gave us 6 free pay movies as part of the sign-up deal. In the 90 days before the offer expired we could only find 3, and one of them was only because the grandkids were visiting!
Never even considered Shomi. Use my daughter's NEtflix ID once in a blue moon, like going to the old movie store, I spend 10 hours looking for something worth watching for every two hours I do spend watching something.

Netflix doesn't show it's full catalog to everyone all the time. It uses your 'preferences' runs them through an algorithm to generate your page view. Try entering these manually to search for things you might like:

http://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/INSERTNUMBERHERE

1365 = Action & Adventure
77232 = Asian Action Movies
46576 = Classic Action & Adventure
43040 = Action Comedies
43048 = Action Thrillers
8985 = Martial Arts Movies
2125 = Military Action & Adventure
7442 = Adventures
10118 = Comic Book and Superhero Movies
7700 = Westerns
10702 = Spy Action & Adventure
9584 = Crime Action & Adventure
11828 = Foreign Action & Adventure



7424 = Anime
11881 = Adult Animation
2653 = Anime Action
9302 = Anime Comedies
452 = Anime Dramas
3063 = Anime Features
2729 = Anime Sci-Fi
10695 = Anime Horror
11146 = Anime Fantasy
6721 = Anime Series

783 = Children & Family Movies
6796 = Movies for ages 0 to 2
6218 = Movies for ages 2 to 4
5455 = Movies for ages 5 to 7
561 = Movies for ages 8 to 10
6962 = Movies for ages 11 to 12
10659 = Education for Kids
67673 = Disney
10056 = Movies based on children’s books
51056 = Family Features
11177 = TV Cartoons
27346 = Kids’ TV
52843 = Kids Music
5507 = Animal Tales

31574 = Classic Movies
31694 = Classic Comedies
29809 = Classic Dramas
47147 = Classic Sci-Fi & Fantasy
46588 = Classic Thrillers
7687 = Film Noir
48744 = Classic War Movies
52858 = Epics
32473 = Classic Foreign Movies
53310 = Silent Movies
47465 = Classic Westerns

6548 = Comedies
869 = Dark Comedies
4426 = Foreign Comedies
1402 = Late Night Comedies
26 = Mockumentaries
2700 = Political Comedies
9702 = Screwball Comedies
5286 = Sports Comedies
11559 = Stand-up Comedy
3519 = Teen Comedies
4922 = Satires
5475 = Romantic Comedies
10256 = Slapstick Comedies
7627 = Cult Movies
8195 = B-Horror Movies
1252 = Campy Movies
10944 = Cult Horror Movies
4734 = Cult Sci-Fi & Fantasy
9434 = Cult Comedies
4195 = Independent Comedies


6839 = Documentaries
3652 = Biographical Documentaries
9875 = Crime Documentaries
5161 = Foreign Documentaries
5349 = Historical Documentaries
4006 = Military Documentaries
180 = Sports Documentaries
90361 = Music & Concert Documentaries
1159 = Travel & Adventure Documentaries
7018 = Political Documentaries
10005 = Religious Documentaries
2595 = Science & Nature Documentaries
3675 = Social & Cultural Documentaries



5763 = Dramas
3179 = Biographical Dramas
29809 = Classic Dramas
528582748 = Courtroom Dramas
6889 = Crime Dramas
4961 = Dramas based on Books
3653 = Dramas based on real life
6384 = Tearjerkers
2150 = Foreign Dramas
7243 = Sports Dramas
500 = Gay & Lesbian Dramas
384 = Independent Dramas
9299 = Teen Dramas
11 = Military Dramas
12123 = Period Pieces
6616 = Political Dramas
1255 = Romantic Dramas
5012 = Showbiz Dramas
3947 = Social Issue Dramas
26835 = Faith & Spirituality
52804 = Faith & Spirituality Movies
2760 = Spiritual Documentaries
751423 = Kids Faith & Spirituality
384 = Independent Dramas

Hardly a full list either. Google for "Netflix Category URLs", there are tons out there.

Oh, jeez now I'll spend 20 hours searching....
what a mish-mosh of numbered categories, couldn't copy something like the old Dewey decimal system?
Or how about a searhc function like
monster horror thriller -teenagers -sports teams -possession -military -camp

Their search system only searches titles or the 'plot' as entered in their systems.

It will find things like 'Burt Lancaster'' or 'war movies', or 'the longest day'. Not to good with '-teenagers' or '+kamakaze'.