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Netflix launches Play Something, a viewing mode that gives a more TV-like feel

11 points by stunt 5y ago

thepangolino 5y ago
So the basically reinvented the shuffle button?
HelloMcFly 5y ago
And yet still no "Watch Together" option. It is frankly inconceivable to me that Netflix has no interest in making their platform just a bit more social. I guess we all have to settle more more tricks to get us to watch whatever bad-to-middle reality show they've launched this week. Less glibly, I would actually be interested in this feature if I didn't feel like Netflix's recommendations to me are so bad for me. I've felt this way since the rating scale change, but I can't honestly say that was the cause. It's more likely a result of increased Netflix-produced content, which by-and-large I find uncompelling (with documentaries being an exception).
- Akinato 5y ago
  Honestly the ratings used to be brilliantly accurate. They've been making them less accurate ever since, to the point where I think there's next to no content-awareness going on and it's just purely fueled by marketing initiatives.
  - atat7024 5y ago
    Adoption of their titles wasn't as high with that system in place.
- skinnymuch 5y ago
  Yes. Every one is so behind with such an obvious feature - watching together.
toddsiegel 5y ago
Rather than picking anything at random, I’d prefer to be able to have it randomly pick an episode of a particular show. Sometimes I want watch a show I like, but don’t care which episode it is. My wife’s and my workaround is that one of us picks a season number and the other an episode number, without looking. Then we commit and watch it. Avoids a bunch of analysis paralysis.
plasma 5y ago
I’d like to see: 1) Genre channels. Each channel is a stream of trailers with information about the film too, so you can quickly figure out if you like or don’t like it, without having to scroll around 2) Consider adding a reviews channel for each genre too, talk me through some of these shows
- xsmasher 5y ago
  Pluto TV has a more "channel surfing" interface - with horror, scifi, comedy channels, along with some more specific ones like MST3k, Star Trek, and Classic Who. It's great for more "ambient / watch anything" TV. Some movies also have a "watch from the beginning" feature if they have the same movie or show on-demand.

11 points by stunt 5y ago

So the basically reinvented the shuffle button?

And yet still no "Watch Together" option. It is frankly inconceivable to me that Netflix has no interest in making their platform just a bit more social. I guess we all have to settle more more tricks to get us to watch whatever bad-to-middle reality show they've launched this week. Less glibly, I would actually be interested in this feature if I didn't feel like Netflix's recommendations to me are so bad for me. I've felt this way since the rating scale change, but I can't honestly say that was the cause. It's more likely a result of increased Netflix-produced content, which by-and-large I find uncompelling (with documentaries being an exception).

Akinato 5y ago
Honestly the ratings used to be brilliantly accurate. They've been making them less accurate ever since, to the point where I think there's next to no content-awareness going on and it's just purely fueled by marketing initiatives.
- atat7024 5y ago
  Adoption of their titles wasn't as high with that system in place.
skinnymuch 5y ago
Yes. Every one is so behind with such an obvious feature - watching together.

toddsiegel 5y ago

Rather than picking anything at random, I’d prefer to be able to have it randomly pick an episode of a particular show. Sometimes I want watch a show I like, but don’t care which episode it is. My wife’s and my workaround is that one of us picks a season number and the other an episode number, without looking. Then we commit and watch it. Avoids a bunch of analysis paralysis.

plasma 5y ago

I’d like to see: 1) Genre channels. Each channel is a stream of trailers with information about the film too, so you can quickly figure out if you like or don’t like it, without having to scroll around 2) Consider adding a reviews channel for each genre too, talk me through some of these shows

xsmasher 5y ago
Pluto TV has a more "channel surfing" interface - with horror, scifi, comedy channels, along with some more specific ones like MST3k, Star Trek, and Classic Who. It's great for more "ambient / watch anything" TV. Some movies also have a "watch from the beginning" feature if they have the same movie or show on-demand.