Flixster Enters Beta, Integrates with iTunes, Amazon, Netflix
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Movie lovers should get ready to take a closer look. Warner Brothers has launched the Flixster Collections beta this week, a dashboard style app that allows you to view, organize and share your media. Bringing together your iTunes purchases and online video accounts like Netflix, this app gives you the opportunity to “Explore, Collect and Connect”.
Once the beta is complete, Flixster Collections will aim to be your go-to launchpad when you go to rent, buy or watch a movie. Is the movie you want to see still in the theatre? No problem! This app will deliver movie reviews, trailers and lead you through the online ticketing system.
The app allows you to share your television show and movie choices with friends, giving you all the chance to review and recommend titles to each other. Your collection is displayed as a series of movie posters and your wall of images evolves as you watch.
Behaving as a portal, Flixster Collections will actually launch Netflix, Hulu and iTunes directly.
It is difficult to say whether people will be eager to embrace this service, when it amounts to little more than another social networking site –especially when so much of the functionality is already available from within other sites, like Facebook. It may stand a better chance if Warner Brothers integrates it with Ultraviolet, a cloud-based streaming video distribution system, which would only make good sense.
In any case, I think we are going to see more apps like this as we move toward increased digital delivery of media content because people are going to want a way to keep track of their virtual catalogs.
For now, Flixster Collections is only available as a standalone app for your desktop Mac or PC computer, but the mobile app is on the way!
[via All Things D]
