Another benefit is that the Roku watchlist would greatly help when movies bounce around different services. The movie may have originally been on Netflix, but the Netflix watchlist won't be useful if Netflix loses the rights and it goes to another service. Then it just disappears from my Netflix wishlist and I forget about it or I have to search around to find it again.
My Feed could actually be useful for this if it was possible to see the list of movies and TV shows added to the feed. I originally thought that was the purpose of My Feed. At one point I went through search and added a bunch of shows to be followed on Roku, but then I was surprised when I later went to My Feed and couldn't see the list of programs I was following. I eventually removed the shows when they would pop up in the feed because I didn't want the notifications of when they moved around. With My Feed, I got notifications I didn't want and couldn't see the list of shows I wanted.
For what I want, here's how it could be accomplished:
- Add an option to My Feed which disables the notifications
- Add an option to My Feed which lets me see the list of movies and TV shows which Roku is watching
These changes would essentially create a Watchlist-like capability where users could create lists of programming they want to have access to at a later time.
I came here to request this. With so many streaming services, so much content spread all over the place, a Universal Watch List is the killer app of streaming. Whichever device adds it first, be it Roku, Fire, or Google, will become my primary device.
For movies it would be great, for TV it would be particularly awesome, especially for shows with different seasons on different services. For example, Rick Steves' Europe is now spread between Amazon Prime, PBS, and Hulu, depending on what season you're looking for.
