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I'd love for this to be native in the Netflix apps and to function between accounts in two different countries. Watching TV with friends and family back home wo

by m1sta_ 11y ago

I'd love for this to be native in the Netflix apps and to function between accounts in two different countries. Watching TV with friends and family back home would be wonderful.

MichaelGG 11y ago
Isn't it a bit strange that after so many years, Netflix's player is as basic as anything? Even YouTube offers more. Yeah I'm sure Netflix has all sorts of non-visible stuff to make it work well but it's like they don't even consider the player to be a place they can deliver features.
- DanBC 11y ago
  I really want companies to stop stuffing features into their product. I want them to develop something that works, and works very well, and then optimise it carefully. Nice to have but non essential features should be offered in an experimental, unsupported, panel. "Try this, you might like it, but it might not work and we don't provide any support if it doesn't work". There's a long list of software that was good, that improved to be great, and then continued to "improve" and became huge buggy laggy messes.
  - MichaelGG 11y ago
    OK. But Netflix doesn't even have a decent player. No audio boost. No picture controls. Doesn't even have subtitle controls. I mostly don't use Netflix (their selection went to hell and they seem intent on shoving 1-star stuff in my face) but on the rare occasion I do, it's generally subpar. They're at no risk of turning terrible.
    - cube00 11y ago
      Subtitles are available on both web and mobile apps, most (if not all) titles have subtitles available.
    - moftz 11y ago
      In the settings for your account on the website, you can adjust subtitle appearance.
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- atopal 11y ago
  For those who don't know, you can force quality settings by pressing shift+ctrl+alt/option+S
- such_a_casual 11y ago
  I completely agree. An email button would be nice.
mathgeek 11y ago
Although my parents and grandparents are long gone at this point, I don't want Netflix to make their core apps any more complicated that what they are now. Just for the sake of every one who still has to help their parents/grandparents figure out how to play a movie.
- purpled_haze 11y ago
  True, but I think if you made a video shareable by providing a straight up arrow icon that would then show a secondard submenu above it with the word sync as one of the options that would generate a hardlink that you could then email to them, that might be a good interface for our generation. Then the more aged user would get the link, click on it, and it would open a browser window and inform them that this was a movie being shared with you by (your name) and to click on a link to join the viewing party. It would not be like the normal Netflix interface as you'd not be able to escape the shared viewing to browse, etc. and the title of the window would be "Shared Video: (name)" or similar in case it were bookmarked. You could go back to that shared video at anytime, similar to how Google Hangouts can reuse a hangout. That should be simple enough in-theory for older people to get, at least as many of them that would be using it. Unfortunately, it wouldn't work with all of the Netflix-ready devices. :( That's the problem with smart TVs and set top devices vs. browsers- you just can't innovate like that as easily. But, it shouldn't stop Netflix from providing this feature in their browser and app versions that they have the ability to update.

by m1sta_ 11y ago

I'd love for this to be native in the Netflix apps and to function between accounts in two different countries. Watching TV with friends and family back home would be wonderful.

MichaelGG 11y ago

Isn't it a bit strange that after so many years, Netflix's player is as basic as anything? Even YouTube offers more. Yeah I'm sure Netflix has all sorts of non-visible stuff to make it work well but it's like they don't even consider the player to be a place they can deliver features.

DanBC 11y ago
I really want companies to stop stuffing features into their product. I want them to develop something that works, and works very well, and then optimise it carefully. Nice to have but non essential features should be offered in an experimental, unsupported, panel. "Try this, you might like it, but it might not work and we don't provide any support if it doesn't work". There's a long list of software that was good, that improved to be great, and then continued to "improve" and became huge buggy laggy messes.
- MichaelGG 11y ago
  OK. But Netflix doesn't even have a decent player. No audio boost. No picture controls. Doesn't even have subtitle controls. I mostly don't use Netflix (their selection went to hell and they seem intent on shoving 1-star stuff in my face) but on the rare occasion I do, it's generally subpar. They're at no risk of turning terrible.
  - cube00 11y ago
    Subtitles are available on both web and mobile apps, most (if not all) titles have subtitles available.
  - moftz 11y ago
    In the settings for your account on the website, you can adjust subtitle appearance.
- deleted 11y ago
  [deleted]
atopal 11y ago
For those who don't know, you can force quality settings by pressing shift+ctrl+alt/option+S
such_a_casual 11y ago
I completely agree. An email button would be nice.

mathgeek 11y ago

Although my parents and grandparents are long gone at this point, I don't want Netflix to make their core apps any more complicated that what they are now. Just for the sake of every one who still has to help their parents/grandparents figure out how to play a movie.

purpled_haze 11y ago
True, but I think if you made a video shareable by providing a straight up arrow icon that would then show a secondard submenu above it with the word sync as one of the options that would generate a hardlink that you could then email to them, that might be a good interface for our generation. Then the more aged user would get the link, click on it, and it would open a browser window and inform them that this was a movie being shared with you by (your name) and to click on a link to join the viewing party. It would not be like the normal Netflix interface as you'd not be able to escape the shared viewing to browse, etc. and the title of the window would be "Shared Video: (name)" or similar in case it were bookmarked. You could go back to that shared video at anytime, similar to how Google Hangouts can reuse a hangout. That should be simple enough in-theory for older people to get, at least as many of them that would be using it. Unfortunately, it wouldn't work with all of the Netflix-ready devices. :( That's the problem with smart TVs and set top devices vs. browsers- you just can't innovate like that as easily. But, it shouldn't stop Netflix from providing this feature in their browser and app versions that they have the ability to update.