Netflix became officially available in Australia recently and I am enjoying binge watching a few things and having access to some movies etc. There is one thing though, the interface. How do I browse movies specifically? It seems that Netflix categorises things into whether it’s a comedy, drama, mystery etc, but nowhere can I find how to look for movies! My first watching decision is based on whether I want to watch something long (movie) or short (TV episode). Am I the only person who does this?
No answer really. I have been using US Netflix for years and just add stuff to My List as I spot them because there are too many to keep track of.
A couple of useful things that I hope work with Aussie Netflix agoodmovietowatch which has lots of highly rated movies that failed to find large audiences. Provides me lots of viewing I would otherwise miss. And Nenhancer a Chrome extension that when installed shows IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes ratings when you mouse over movies.
You just became my new favorite poster! Those are two awesome links. I never did trust Netflix ratings so I’m constantly flipping pages to get ratings on movies I’m deciding to watch. That Chrome extension will save me the hassle. Thanks.
The browsing experience is better on the actual netflix site than say, the iPad app-- on the site you can browse by category, subgenre, then sort by various criteria. You can only browse by main category on the app (Comedy, Drama, etc.)
And the Netflix rating system isn’t a user rating-- it’s what Netflix thinks you’ll like based (I think) on what you’ve already watched, and I find it’s wildly inaccurate to my tastes.
Yes, don’t ask’s links look very helpful, thanks! I’d ask where you found them, but I’ll respect your wishes. 
I find it really hard to sort through the static on Netflix to find anything good to watch and their “suggested for you” are never things I’d like to watch. Mostly, I keep track of things that I’ve been meaning to watch and add them to my list.
How is the selection for streaming in Australia? Each country has entirely separate rights and the availability of quality movies is vastly different.
Liking what they have to offer so far?
I’m envisioning a Yahoo Serious binge. 
I know those words but that post makes no sense.
He’s an Aussie actor.
I have a smart TV and it has a Netflix app on it. The interface has a search feature that lets me search by movie title. I guess you guys all screwed up and didn’t by the same TV as me. 
But of course, you have to know a title to search for on the app. If you’re not sure what you want to watch, Netflix is very hard to sort through.
Not sure if it works where you are, but I find the site: www.instantwatcher.com to be quite good at search. It also works for amazon prime.
It’s a Simpsons reference. 
When the family is visiting Australia, Lisa sees “Yahoo Serious Festival” on a movie marquee and says essentially what bienville did.
I like the Netflix user interface that my Apple TV uses. We used to use Netflix on the Nintendo Wii and it didn’t have a genre option, though maybe it’s been upgraded, also it wasn’t in 1080P.
Thanks for that.
That first link will be helpful I think. I’m not using the computer but I can iPad it. We have Netflix available on about a gazillion different things but generally the interface we use is either the smart TV or the Playstation (connected to the same TV.) We have an Apple TV, the iPad apps and the website on the computer of course.
The problem is not that the categories are poor, it’s that if I want to watch a movie, then I want to browse “movies”, I don’t want a heap of TV shows cluttering things up. My viewing decision is initially dictated by how much time I have to watch something and whether I want to watch something that is entirely self contained or might be part of a series. I don’t think to myself “hmmm, I’d like to watch a comedy”, I think “hmmm I feel like a good movie”. At least by using the goodmovies website I can browse movies and then search for it on Netflix.
As to the Aussie Netflix, it has been fine for me but I am not a big TV watcher and wouldn’t notice or care if it was missing stuff.
A teeny hijack, since we are discussing how to watch Netflix.
I have a dumb HDTV. I have Chromecast, which works fine, but the TV has only one HDMI port and to use it I have to unplug the DVD player.
I heard an ad for a smart Blueray player for cheap. Has anyone used that interface? I do not have and have no intention of getting a game system so that path is out. That would, for not much money, get us the ability to watch Blueray if we choose and stream more easily. I think the player advertised was Samsung, but I haven’t researched this yet.
Thank you. I even went through the trouble of looking it up to make sure I got the wording correct.
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I don’t have a Blueray answer for you, but my TV also has one HDMI port, and I use an auto-switcher for the three HDMI devices I have connected to it. The switch automatically changes the signal to whichever device is active. It wasn’t expensive.