aba1 said:
Savagezion said:
I updated a couple days ago and I have had no problems but I have really only used Netflix since then. (BTW Netflix Max is a pretty cool and surprisingly accurate tool.)
Ohhh ya is that on the store?
Actually, you just load up Netflix (under TV/Video Services on the System Menu screen) and Max is located under your Top 10 suggested things to watch. It throws 3 "random" categories up for you (I assume this is based on your previous watching habits) then once you pick one you rate 5 movies/shows in that genre. (You either rate it 1-5 stars, skip if you haven't seen it, or select "Not interested" if it is something you know you don't like) Surprisingly off of rating 5 freaking shows/movies, it can pick some good stuff. Of course, I usually do rate things and have a decent amount rated pre-Max and I do think max is more of a system to get people to rate stuff more often.
However, I have used Max about about 10 times so far and most of the time it suggested a movie I love - but had already seen. Half the time I watched, the other half I didn't as a couple were favorite movies of mine so I had seen them ALOT already and wasnt in the mood moreso due to extreme familiarity. One of them was "For the Love of the Game" which I have seen about 120 million times. So, I told it I had seen it and it asked me to rate it which I of course rated high. Once this weekend it suggested "Departures", a foreign film, with some dude playing a Cello in front of some mountains that reminded me of "The sound of music" - which I hate. But it was Max's first pick. I gritted my teeth and pushed play. Holy shit, that movie was cool and I never would have watched it otherwise due to the cover image mixed with a fairly bland synopsis. It isn't a movie I will watch a whole bunch but it is like "A Beautiful Mind" that in about 5 years, I may have an itch to watch it again as it was really good and extremely unique in flavor.
I highly recommend Max. I thought it was gonna be some dumb bullshit service that just threw random crap at you. But instead it seems it really plays off of your ratings and has some weird infrastructure as to content relation. I would say it has about an 80% success rate when I have been in the "I don't know what I want to watch" mood. (Even then it picked movies I already love) However, I don't know how well this would work on a PS3 with many different people all watching and rating different things on the same PS3. For example my brother's house will have high ratings for
Hall Pass, American Pie, Expendables, Hannah Montana, Dora the Explorer, Dance Moms, Extreme Couponing, 24, etc. God knows what kinda crap it may suggest -it may even have an aneurism. But if the tastes on the system stay fairly consistent, the thing can work magic.
Sorry for the ramble, but color me impressed by this service I gave 2 shits about a week ago when I first heard of it.
