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But that’s just one service and they never say, “Hey pop over to the other guy’s service … the movie is fantastic.” You lost that entertainment options window when you cut your pay TV cord and left behind the EPG (electronic program guide). Two services – Reelgood and JustWatch – are pretty good free replacements for your old EPG. And they’re always adding things to make them even more valuable to you. While they both have pros/cons. We use JustWatch as our app in front of the streaming apps. Just Watch lets you know about entertainment that will be coming soon and those that will be leaving, just in case you were going to watch something, sometime. They’ve added an improvement we like--filtering shows/films by genre. That’s also a good tool for studios/streamers in choosing future projects. Reality and comedy storylines have fallen out of favor with audiences while anime and documentaries have gained interest. In addition, subgenres have their ups and downs around the globe – Canadians like westerns, action in the Middle East, comedy in France/Germany. It would be nice if they had pages to give you information about project actors, directors, related programs but some folks complain even when something is free. If you really want all of that information, there’s always IMDb that has information on just about all of the video entertainment work that is out there – past and present. When we don’t have a specific piece of entertainment in mind, we’ll simply go to Pluto or Tubi. We’ve never figured out why industry analysts pigeonhole services - TVOD (transaction), SVOD (subscription), AVOD (ads) and FAST (free ad-supported). They’re all simply home video entertainment – TV. How you pay for it -- subscription, sub/ad is way less important than the who/what. Pluto, owned by Paramount, is good because it is the closest