'Netflix Party': a New Chrome Extension Adds Chat Panes to Movies (theguardian.com) 38
GameSpot calls it "like an AOL chat room" combined with Netflix. The Guardian reports:
You log in, share a viewing link with friends, choose one person to be in charge of picking what you watch and, as your chosen show plays out in the bulk of the screen, a chatroom pops up on the right-hand side. You can discuss the show with the people in your room, or argue, or flirt, or veer wildly off-tangent because you've realised that you've picked an absolute dud to watch.
Right now, Netflix Party feels absolutely necessary. Self-quarantine has atomised us, and if this is the closest we can get to watching films and TV shows with our friends, then we'll grab it with both hands. But then again, even if this wasn't a time of enormous struggle, Netflix Party would be a terrific idea. Because the biggest downside to this vast glut of non-linear content is that nobody watches the same thing at the same time any more. There are no more water cooler series, because everyone at the water cooler has to tiptoe around the fact that they might be a few episodes ahead of everyone else, and one stray spoiler slip might ruin it for everyone else.
Television has always been a social pursuit, but this element has been lost in recent years.
"Twenty servers were added today to help more people spend time together without leaving home," notes Forbes.
Right now, Netflix Party feels absolutely necessary. Self-quarantine has atomised us, and if this is the closest we can get to watching films and TV shows with our friends, then we'll grab it with both hands. But then again, even if this wasn't a time of enormous struggle, Netflix Party would be a terrific idea. Because the biggest downside to this vast glut of non-linear content is that nobody watches the same thing at the same time any more. There are no more water cooler series, because everyone at the water cooler has to tiptoe around the fact that they might be a few episodes ahead of everyone else, and one stray spoiler slip might ruin it for everyone else.
Television has always been a social pursuit, but this element has been lost in recent years.
"Twenty servers were added today to help more people spend time together without leaving home," notes Forbes.
I've been waiting for someething (Score:2)
to open a floating window while watching that I could do IMDB or RT searches while watching
Oh, on AndroidTV.
Re: I've been waiting for someething (Score:1)
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Please wake me when slashdot brings proper news.
Have a good long nap.
When you're back from it, slashdot will be but a dim memory.
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Yes, but who's here for Slashdot? [youtube.com]
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"Can I help you with that?"
"No." [youtube.com]
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Amazon Prime already has something like that. Move the mouse and you can click on portraits of every actor currently on screen, linked to (IIRC) IMDB.
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Amazon Prime already has something like that. Move the mouse and you can click on portraits of every actor currently on screen, linked to (IIRC) IMDB.
Would be nice if Prime was supported on anything other than Shield for Android TV.
Oh, and if I had Prime.
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Features (Score:5, Funny)
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MST3K was great because of two things. One, the gags were professionally written and generally smart and funny. Two, the movies were so bad that the gags were the reason you were watching in the first place. This will be moronic comments ruining otherwise decent movies.
No thank you (Score:4, Funny)
I guess this extension is perfect for ADHD people who can't focus on something for more than 10 seconds.
But how can you really enjoy what you're watching if you can't focus on the story and the characters when watching a movie? It might as well be white noise to these people, all they care about is talking to each other.
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But how can you really enjoy what you're watching if you can't focus on the story and the characters when watching a movie?
Story? Character? We're talking about Netflix here; how often is that going to come up?
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More often than in Hollywood movies, that's for sure.
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You'd need trenching equipment not to clear that bar.
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What a great idea (Score:3)
Because the movie is so crappy and boring you need to have something to do while it is running.
How about a method to find the needed friends? (Score:2)
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TiVo Community has survived everything... we could use a few more brands sponsoring such a thing.
Open source chat tech... (Score:3)
Seems like somebody should be teaching how to set up private BB and Jabber connections lately... Fox at one time had boards on Prospero for every show on the schedule, from the point it was announced, even NFL on Fox titles.
Great! And now time for... (Score:1)
... the rebirth of every idea people told me was stupid in the 90's.
Jesus WHY? (Score:3)
I despise people talking during movies, at a theater or at home. (MST3K and Rifftrax excepted, natch).
I can't think of much worse than implementing a chatbar visible during a film.
VR's time to shine (Score:3)
VR has tons of social experiences like BigScreen [youtu.be] that mimic real life social interaction in ways you simply can't achieve with traditional (text or voice) chat rooms. This goofy interaction in Rec Room [youtube.com] (NSFW language) is one of my favorite examples of just how visceral VR can be when only your (virtual) personal space is violated.
Outside of real life face to face interaction, VR, with it's primate visuals, basic body language and hand gestures offers more bandwidth and flexibility that any other communication technology.
A post about a chrome extension (Score:1)
Because the best thing about going to the movies (Score:2)
Is when audience members talk while the movie's running!
Works with PornHub? (Score:2)
That could be interesting . . .
It doesn't work (Score:2)
i wish (Score:1)