Why is there no "search" feature for Movies (or TV Shows) in my Library?

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Why is there no "search" feature for Movies (or TV Shows) in my Library?

I have a couple thousand movies, and lots of TV shows.

When I am trying to find a particular movie, I have to scroll all the way from A to whatever the name of the movie is. There is no search feature. So this can take a LONG time to scroll, and is just silly.

We are on like version 7 of the AppleTV software. Why won't Apple implement a search feature for Movies or TV Shows? Do they not expect me to have more than a handful? Is this an anti-piracy scheme? Trying to steer me from having so many movies? Why?

There is a search feature for Music in my Library...

Posted on Nov 3, 2012 1:54 PM

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Jataga

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Nov 1, 2013 10:56 AM in response to IJCOBRA

has this been solved? I cant seem to find a search feature and it's a pain scrolling through my 1000+ movie/show collection. Seems like a simple solution would be to add a search box in the "Computers" section of the interface.

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Nov 1, 2013 3:29 PM in response to IJCOBRA

>We are on like version 7 of the AppleTV software.

Version 6. iOS is on version 7.

>Why won't Apple implement a search feature for Movies or TV Shows?

Becuase that would take MUCH longer than scrolling. Since enterying a word or phrase via the six buttom remote would take MUCH longer than scrolling.

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Nov 1, 2013 3:30 PM in response to Jataga

> Seems like a simple solution would be to add a search box

There is NOTHING simple about doing search, and it would take MUCH longer to enter a word or phrase via the ATV six button remote than it would to scroll down.

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IJCOBRA Author

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Nov 3, 2013 5:37 PM in response to Brian Cook4

Ok so Apple has had 6 opportunities to get this right and still denies us a simple search feature. And yes, search is simple. This is not re-inventing Google. This is taking my movie titles and being able to type a piece of the name and have my results narrow, just like how search works in every other part of AppleTV.

Apparently you have never tried scrolling through a long list of TV shows/movies or you would be complaining for it, instead of weakly arguing against.

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