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

[drunkenclaudius]

Lmao @ Aaron Paul having a breakdown over this

[koushiba]

this would make me so happy lmao. I find it easier to concentrate when I have things set on 1x or 1.5x speed honestly.

[mixtape_reverie]

1x is the normal rate tho

[koushiba]

Lmao whoops. I meant 1.5-2x 🤡

[milotic2]

LOL

[tucker]

I think Aaron Paul is being a bit dramatic

Having said that I don’t know how people can stand watching YouTube videos on fast and then the voices get all shrill no thank you

[imabadkid]

same. I get distracted when it's too fast tbh

[fotografa]

Some youtubers speak very slowly so changing it to ×2 makes them sound normal speed.

[ilovespooons]

This is perfect for all those series that go on way too long. Now you can hurry up and finish that last season or two!
Honestly it makes a 30 minute TV show (usually 22 minutes without commercials) down to 15 which is the perfect amount of my treadmill time. I'm all for it.

[procedurals]

i gotta say, “the young pope” would have been less of a chore with this feature. there’s only so many slomo nun montages i can take! but realistically i would not use it. i have used it on audiobooks but i can’t stand the distortion for too long.