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 on

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.