James Galvin

Moviestar.ie DVD rental by post; Ireland’s answer to Netflix. It’s none of my business but, if everything is done through their website, then step 1 is to make a website that works.

Consider the amount of resources that Netflix have spent in developing their site to improve search and recommendations. Now consider Moviestar.ie, where you enter the exact movie title into the box, select “search by title”, and your search string is then processed by a team of retarded blind dwarves who return a thousand random Gregory Peck movies for you to choose from. So you spend ages searching by director or by year of release to assemble your queue of movies, and a week later they send you Terminator 3.

I like Moviestar.ie - the free trial is a nice bonus. But seriously, and this is something I see with nearly every new Irish web initiative, please speak to professional web developers who know what they’re doing. Ask Irish-Roots - it doesn’t matter how good your database is if you can’t search even search it.

This looks cool. It is impossible to play an FPS game properly on a touch screen small handheld device, but this would be perfect for watching demos (match replays). If Quake 3 runs this well then I’m assuming other old OpenGL games like QuakeWorld will be supported too. I look forward to being able to watch a demo while sitting on the bus or something.