Archive for the ‘New Features’ Category

Rate and Review Movies to Rent DVDs for Free

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

You can now rate and reviews movies on Catchflix.com and rent DVDs for free by being the first to review movies or by collecting CatchPoints.
 
Loved it, hated it… just rate it
Rate the movies have watched. It will tell us about your movie tastes and help us highlight the movies you’re most likely to enjoy. You get 1 CatchPoint for rating movies that you have rented or bought from Catchflix.com. 10 CatchPoints can be redeemed for 1 free DVD rental.
 
Review any movie and rent 1 DVD for free
Share your thoughts about a movie with others by writing a review. Be the first one to write a review for any movie and rent 1 DVD for free. Subsequent reviews get you 1 CatchPoint and 10 CatchPoints can be redeemed for 1 free DVD rental. Here are some tips for writing a useful movie review:

- Give details about why you enjoyed or disliked the movie
- Don’t spoil a plot by giving away endings or key plot developments
- Compare the movie to other similar movies

You can also share a review by emailing it your friends, broadcasting it on Instant Messengers (Yahoo!, MSN, Google Talk), posting it on your blog (Wordpress, Blogger) and publishing it on your social networks (Facebook, Twitter) – all from Catchflix.com directly.

Web 2.0 Powered ShopprStream

The Ratings and Reviews functionalty on Catchflix.com is powered by Pramati ShopprStream, a collection of Web 2.0 components and enabling infrastructure that lets a website to plug-in a gamut of features and functions with surprising ease and speed. And the widgets are so flexible in how they work and look, that each feature comes across as if it belonged to the website.

More about Pramati ShopprStream: http://www.shopprstream.com/

Catchflix Case Study on ShopprStream: http://www.shopprstream.com/benefits/catchflixcom-case-study

Back on the Rack

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

You walk into a video library to rent some movies and someone walks in to return some. Would you want to see what movies the other guy is returning?

Yeah, we thought so too. So you can now see all the movies just Back on the Rack at Catchflix – all the movies that have just come back from other members and are available for rent.

Now you don’t need to take that sneak peek at what others are returning. We have a whole rack for you with all the movies that have just been returned by other members.

You Can Now Buy New DVDs on Catchflix

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

BuyYou can now buy new DVDs on Catchflix. Yes, along with the Rent Now button, you will now also see the Buy Now button on the movie pages on our website. Use it to get brand-new DVDs in factory-sealed boxes that you can keep forever.

Why are we doing this? Well, we just want to make it easy for you to find and watch movies that you enjoy. You can choose to rent the DVDs or you can choose to buy DVDs – however you like it.

If you are really into it, you can do some fun stuff like…

  • Rent the DVD. If it’s one of those for which you will get a sudden compulsive urge to watch again and you must have a DVD of your own in anticipation of that moment… just buy it.
  • Buy the DVD. Keep it and watch as many times… till you are past the point of the compulsive urge to watch it again. And then trade it with Catchflix to rent other movies for free.

So… you can now rent, buy and trade DVDs online on Catchflix. And there is more to come…

PS: Many movies have been enabled for sales… but not all. We will do that over the next few weeks. If you want to buy a DVD and do not see the Buy Now button, just send us an email at info@catchflix.com.

Now Watch Movie Trailers & Clips on Catchflix

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

 YouTube

You can now watch trailers and clips of movies on the Catchflix website. We have integrated Catchflix with YouTube, world’s largest video sharing website (that was recently acquired by Google). And not just one trailer for a movie – you can choose from a bunch of related videos after the first one plays plays.

Trade Your DVDs and Rent Other Movies for FREE

Saturday, August 4th, 2007

DVD Trading 

You can now trade DVDs you own with Catchflix and rent other movies for FREE. How cool is that?!

We will take your DVDs and give you movie credits in return. You can rent movies of your choice for FREE by redeeming your movie credits on Catchflix.

Ready to Trade DVDs?
http://www.catchflix.com/dvd_trading.php

DVD Trading Text Box

Why Stop at 100?

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

We added a section for the Top 100 movies on Catchflix sometime back. But then we thought… why stop at 100? So we have now added a link for Next 100 on the Top 100 page. Click on this link to see the 101 to 200 most rented movies on Catchflix.

But then again… why stop at 200?!

The Oscars Are Here

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

 

Oscar

 

We have created a whole new section for Oscar Award winners and nominees. You can browse Oscar winning and nominated movies in our collection by year and by category. The categories covered are Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Animated Feature.

The Oscars are here: http://www.catchflix.com/awards.php?type=oscar&year=2006&srchby=awards

Time Ticker

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Time TickerDid you see the cute little time ticker we have added that shows the hours and minutes left for you to order to get the DVD tomorrow? It is set to start showing at 12 Noon and till 4 PM, unless tomorrow is a Sunday. 

We got the idea from Amazon.com ; ) They use it to tell you the time left to order if you want to get your stuff by some date – like before Father’s Day or something.

Introducing Collections

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

We have added another big feature on Catchflix to make it easy to find great movies. Collections are… well, exactly that – collections of movies – like top lists from various sources and movies with come common element. We are starting with three collections given below and we will keep adding more periodically. Make sure to visit this neighborhood of the Catchflix town each time you visit as you will surely find something new and interesting here.

BBC Asia Network

BBC Asian Network’s Top 40 Soundtracks of All Time  
BBC Asian Network has this interesting collection of Bollywood movies as their Top 40 Soundtracks of All Time. For Hindi music fans, it a great collection of movies packed with songs, dance and drama.

EW Action List

Entertainment Weekly’s Greatest Action Films Ever!
Trends come and go, but Hollywood’s always been good at blowing stuff up. With ”Die Hard 4” about to strike, we rank the movies that delivered the biggest bang for the buck.

Merchant Ivory 

The Merchant Ivory Collection
From Shakespeare Wallah, the bittersweet tale of a wandering theatrical company in India, which established the company’s reputation in 1965, to the richly detailed comic masterpiece A Room with a View in 1986, and the poignant Oscar-winning film Howards End in 1992, Merchant Ivory has provided audiences around the world with thoughtful and beautifully crafted features, documentaries, and shorts. Merchant Ivory’s films have been praised for their visual beauty, their mature and intelligent themes, and the shrewd casting and fine acting from which they derive their unique power.

See Collections: http://www.catchflix.com/collections.php

New Left Navigation

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

Left NavigationWe are introducing a new left navigation that is organized as Genres and Guides. Genres are the broad movie categories with the More link taking you to the 100-plus Themes for movies. Guides are other ways to find movies such as Top 100, New Releases and Directors We Love. Hope you will like the new navigation.