The Criterion Channel -- Technical Issues and Questions

[Lowry_Sam]

Got it back by manually entering everything. Watchlist only contains about 1/3 of what I had & is in random order. They've changed interface somewhat (top themes slide by every few seconds rather than having to click on them), but it doesn't seem to do anything to make finding stuff easier. It would be nice if we could at least sort our watch list by year, director, title, date added.

Update: you can sort & filter under "All Films" just not your watchlist. Also, going out of app & opening back up again changed the order of my watchlist (but still no defineable order). It's also a little odd that there's now 4 (instead of 5) films in a row & films load 10 at a time, so when you scroll down there's only 2 titles in third row & you have to scroll further down for remaining 2 to load.

[fdm]

A bit hard to find, but Leaving Soon is at the bottom of the "New" page.

Thanks!!

[Lowry_Sam]

A bit hard to find, but Leaving Soon is at the bottom of the "New" page.

Thanks!!

Actually you don't have to scroll down far at all. There's also a "Leaving Soon" box under "Browse".

It also looks like the duplicates that were in my watchlistare gone (that may account for some of the number change). All the tiles look the same, ie. the ones with picture on left & info on right, no more artist renditions in the watch list.

After a bit of use, it does seem like it is easier to search for titles in "All Films" and using a remote to scroll through titles seems more responsive (Roku). The only downside I notice is that older themes are harder to find or seemed to have disappeared entirely. "Collections" only has a limited number of themes & I'm not finding the older ones anywhere. "Series" is gone as a category too & you have to do an individual search for "Blossoms Shanghai" & "Penance" to find them.

[Matt]

Unless I can't find the option, it looks like their new platform does away with the ability to change the playback speed. No more listening to interviews and commentaries at 1.5 speed.

Except for the jumbling of the order of film in the watchlist, it looks like a solid upgrade.

[zontar]

Well, this did not go well for me. My ROKU 3 will not play anything. It appears to attempt playback and then kicks back to the film's title screen. I have tried a dozen films and they all do the same thing. At one point there was a cryptic 'no applicable bitrate found' or something like that. I opened a support ticket.

Frankly, this rollout seems rushed. A few days notice that they are merging accounts and now this, IMHO, garish new interface. It all seems very un-Criterion.

[DimitriL]

I'm hoping that this wholesale platform change from Vimeo to JWX - they handle the BBC's video backend, among others - means that they have more flexibility and we'll see faster updates with more features. Presumably JWX actually has engineers to work with them, unlike Vimeo, who canned all theirs when they were bought by Bending Spoons.

A small thing, but I'm happy to finally have a film info button on the 24/7 page when watching through my Roku TV's app.