TV Search

With the increasing fusion of traditional broadcast and internet based TV services, search is playing an increasing role.

But I am beginning to think it is misplaced in a sit back experience. Our daily lives are already based around (mostly) futile Google searches that need to be refined and tailored to deliver results. How frustrating that is in a TV experience! It is almost like the providers are saying "we've got this stuff and we're not too sure how to present it to you, why don't you just search and find what you want - save us the trouble".

Other arguments against search are lack of content, does a legitimate provider really have a catalogue of more than a few hundred items at a time? Probably not for the next five years or so, beyond that then maybe - although the commercial drivers for this seem dubious.

What would I want, a presentation by good old fashioned genres easy to navigate and channel neutral with filters to get rid of content I don't want (i.e. in my case pay for) - that would work!