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Why doesn’t Netflix have the Criterion Channel’s best new feature?
Thanks to the homogeneity of user-experience design in tech, streaming services basically all the look the same. They all have categories that give way to an endless scroll of thumbnail tiles, and each one’s actual video player is nearly identical. In other words, new features are very hard to come by in the streaming space — but boutique streaming service Criterion Channel has a great one: searchable transcripts.