{"id":27977,"date":"2020-01-29T16:46:04","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T21:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=27977"},"modified":"2020-02-24T16:13:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T21:13:47","slug":"sorting-my-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/29\/sorting-my-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorting My TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hypercritical.co\/2020\/01\/29\/sorting-my-tv\">John Siracusa<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/hypercritical.co\/2020\/01\/29\/sorting-my-tv\">\n<p>For a few years now, I&rsquo;ve tracked the TV shows I&rsquo;m watching using the iOS app <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/reviews\/tracking-tv-shows-with-couchy\/\">Couchy<\/a>, which integrates with the <a href=\"https:\/\/trakt.tv\/\">Trakt.tv<\/a> service. Sadly, Couchy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/couchyapp\/status\/1044245909670957057\">ceased development<\/a> last year. I&rsquo;ve kept using it since then, but in the past few weeks it&rsquo;s finally started to fail.<\/p>\n<p>I looked at (and purchased) many, many alternative apps back when Couchy&rsquo;s demise was announced, but I could never find one that I liked as much. In particular, I haven&rsquo;t found a match for the information density of Couchy&rsquo;s main screen combined with its &ldquo;smart&rdquo; sort order.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He has a great sketch of how an algorithm might work.<\/p>\n<p>Apple TV already knows what I watch, and I trust Apple more than most companies with my data. Why does it <em>still<\/em> offer so little help in finding the episode I want to watch next?<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/06\/no-home-videos-in-tv-app\/\">No Home Videos in TV App<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/01\/the-tv-app-strategy-tax\/\">The TV App Strategy Tax<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/14\/ios-12-3s-tv-app\/\">iOS 12.3&rsquo;s TV App<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"sorting-my-tv-update-2020-02-22\">Update (2020-02-22): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mantia\/status\/1230909075702964224\">Louie Mantia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mantia\/status\/1230909075702964224\">\n<p>Basically all I want my AppleTV to do is this:<\/p>\n<p>&#8226; Episodes I can watch right now up top.<br \/>\n&#8226; Next week&rsquo;s episodes in the second row, with an indication of the day it&rsquo;s available to watch.<br \/>\n&#8226; Display upcoming seasons of shows I watch on a third row, with expected release dates.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanGrover\/status\/1230909440263503872\">Dan Grover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanGrover\/status\/1230909440263503872\">\n<p>This is totally how streaming devices should work. Why do we have apps there?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"sorting-my-tv-update-2020-02-24\">Update (2020-02-24): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tylerhall\/status\/1231420395791712257\">Tyler Hall<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tylerhall\/status\/1231420395791712257\">\n<p>I feel like a complete and hypocritical shithead saying this as someone who charges money for the things I create, but I simply went back to piracy last Summer for TV shows. The UX is just light years better than what any major media company offers &#x1F937;&#x200D;&#x2642;&#xFE0F;&#x1F614;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Siracusa: For a few years now, I&rsquo;ve tracked the TV shows I&rsquo;m watching using the iOS app Couchy, which integrates with the Trakt.tv service. Sadly, Couchy ceased development last year. I&rsquo;ve kept using it since then, but in the past few weeks it&rsquo;s finally started to fail. I looked at (and purchased) many, many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-01-29T21:46:09Z","apple_news_api_id":"0396ca18-c891-4d4f-a06c-cfd9c171d8b5","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-02-24T21:13:51Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAg==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AA5bKGMiRTU-gbM_ZwXHYtQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[615,31,1667,30,1666,1590,97],"class_list":["post-27977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-tv","tag-ios","tag-ios-13","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-15","tag-tv-app","tag-video"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27977"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28220,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27977\/revisions\/28220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}