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Describe in detail the enhancement you would like to recommend.

I think it would be good to be able to search Netflix by actors, directors,
and genres just like the Netflix site currently allows. The affected
screens would be the search screen or search results screen.

1 - Affected screens / activities
  " On the Search/Search Results Screen "

2 - Impact or Change
  " Be able to search Netflix by actors, directors, and genres "

3 - Why this enhancement is important (aka, why vote for this?)
  " People could find other movies by actors "

Original issue reported on code.google.com by anvylmu...@gmail.com on 17 Nov 2009 at 2:04

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I may need to separate this out from the current search as I don;t want to 
complicate
things. Possibly an "Advanced Search" button under regular search.

The button would open a new screen or tab displaying 3 fields;
Drop Down field to select Genre
Text box for People
Text box for title

You could populate 1 to all of the fields before running the search.

ie. 
  *Comedy's starring Zach Galifinakis(?)
  *Drama's directed by Ron Howard
  *Romantic Comedies with "Love" in the title.

Though I cant imagine a case where you would actually use all three
(if you know the title, you dont care about actor, genre - and if you are 
searching
based on genre or people, you likely dont care what the title is.

Any suggestions are welcome.

Original comment by OlliTech on 20 Nov 2009 at 7:12

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The Netlfix API only allows searching by title.

To allow genre searches each device would need to download the entire catalog 
list
~300MB and filter by genre.

I am thinking I will write a php script hosted by my server to act as a proxy 
meantime.

Original comment by OlliTech on 16 Dec 2009 at 12:22

• Changed state: WontFix