Netflix is Testing Variable Speed Playback on Mobile

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Netflix might be planning to roll out a feature that allows users to binge at higher speeds https://t.co/dEPcir9rx0 pic.twitter.com/tgfqroZx3C
- UPROXX (@UPROXX) October 28, 2019

• Some Android-owning Netflix app users discovered a new setting to change the playback speed of programming available on Netflix, slowing it down to 0.5x or 0.75x speed or

Comments

[veritas_44]

🙄 at Aaron Paul

But it is a dumb feature. What's the point of watching a show if you're going to speed through it? So you can keep up with 'water cooler' chit chat on a show you're clearly not all that interested in? If you want to skip certain scenes, that's what fast forward is for.

[felicityhaircut]

I would only want to do this during boring parts, like a 2-3 min montage from BB or Better Call Saul. Srsly, Vince Gillian needs to calm down on those. There was even one in El Camino when Jesse was looking for the cash!

I used to watch science lectures at 1.25 speed but I was doing video editing and good god it was so hard to listen to.

[felicityhaircut]

You can watch them for me then bc I find them so dull and repetitive!

[timothyjames86]

[richyrich909]

I asked this on twitter and people just laughed and never answered. 😒. So I’m turning to my ontd fam. Does this mean the actors are gonna sound like chipmunks? 🤷🏾‍♂️🤔😂

[sandstorm]

Not unless they have about a x8 option.

[robertsbox_xo]

nah i listen to audiobooks at 1.5x and it's just fast but not chipmunky

[richyrich909]

Oh ok. I’ve no experience with any of this so it was confusing to me lol.

[numbedtoe]

Shh, nobody tell Aaron that many formats have allowed you to do just that, or that fast forward and rewind are options that have been around literally as long as he's been alive.

when beta max and vhs first slugged it out.

that's gotta be one of the dumbest things i've read all day, the idea that it would change artistic integrity and somehow be a threat to it.

[sandstorm]

I watch 90% of shit on 1.5x speed. Hurry up.

But I also already 🏴‍☠️ netflix things and play them in VLC player anyway at that speed so.