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Would never speed up something I was watching for enjoyment. I was slightly puzzled when I saw Netflix enable speeding up video, I suppose someone out there mus

Would never speed up something I was watching for enjoyment. I was slightly puzzled when I saw Netflix enable speeding up video, I suppose someone out there must have wanted it.

Cpoll 5y ago
I know a few people who like doing that when they decide they don't like a movie they're watching but still want to finish it. I've watched Man on Fire this way and found it very comedic at 1.75x speed.
- dahart 5y ago
  I suffer from feeling like I should finish watching things I started even after realizing I don’t like it. I’ve also come to the realization that it is freeing and making progress and good use of my time to force myself to decide to stop watching the show. It might be a kind of sunk cost fallacy that I’m fighting, feeling the need to check if there’s a surprise or if the ending gets better, feeling like I have to make sure I didn’t miss out on something good after all. Never tried speed-ending a video on Netflix, but I have on YouTube. But thinking about it now, I’m going to try harder to double down on consciously turning something off instead of wasting my time more quickly.
  - waterhouse 5y ago
    A thing I've done a few times with TV shows is go read the Wikipedia summaries of the remaining episodes. Much faster than watching them. (In one case I then decided the rest was worth watching; in several others, I didn't.)
- ivanhoe 5y ago
  I do this when binge watching TV series, as the quality often fluctuates between the episodes through the season. So when (usually in the middle of the season) things get too slow I just switch to watching it on 1.5x - 2x speed, rather than fast forwarding through the episode. Helps me with managing that fear of missing out something "important" in the plot...
  - mlyle 5y ago
    Recap episodes! There's a few slivers of new plot buried in there, but I don't need to see the rest at 1x speed.
karmakaze 5y ago
It's quite useful for movies that were edited to meet a length but don't actually have the content to match. Some speed can raise the interest density to make it watchable again. Also/similarly for some older movies which have a slower-paced style that doesn't fit today's conventions and expectations. Slower takes more art/skill to do more with less, and it's so refreshing when it works. [Same for wide shots rather than close-up frantically-cut action.] I'd never speed those up, and rather watch them on a day I have the time.
a9h74j 5y ago
Less Netflix, more chill?

Would never speed up something I was watching for enjoyment. I was slightly puzzled when I saw Netflix enable speeding up video, I suppose someone out there must have wanted it.

Cpoll 5y ago

I know a few people who like doing that when they decide they don't like a movie they're watching but still want to finish it. I've watched Man on Fire this way and found it very comedic at 1.75x speed.

dahart 5y ago
I suffer from feeling like I should finish watching things I started even after realizing I don’t like it. I’ve also come to the realization that it is freeing and making progress and good use of my time to force myself to decide to stop watching the show. It might be a kind of sunk cost fallacy that I’m fighting, feeling the need to check if there’s a surprise or if the ending gets better, feeling like I have to make sure I didn’t miss out on something good after all. Never tried speed-ending a video on Netflix, but I have on YouTube. But thinking about it now, I’m going to try harder to double down on consciously turning something off instead of wasting my time more quickly.
- waterhouse 5y ago
  A thing I've done a few times with TV shows is go read the Wikipedia summaries of the remaining episodes. Much faster than watching them. (In one case I then decided the rest was worth watching; in several others, I didn't.)
ivanhoe 5y ago
I do this when binge watching TV series, as the quality often fluctuates between the episodes through the season. So when (usually in the middle of the season) things get too slow I just switch to watching it on 1.5x - 2x speed, rather than fast forwarding through the episode. Helps me with managing that fear of missing out something "important" in the plot...
- mlyle 5y ago
  Recap episodes! There's a few slivers of new plot buried in there, but I don't need to see the rest at 1x speed.

karmakaze 5y ago

It's quite useful for movies that were edited to meet a length but don't actually have the content to match. Some speed can raise the interest density to make it watchable again. Also/similarly for some older movies which have a slower-paced style that doesn't fit today's conventions and expectations. Slower takes more art/skill to do more with less, and it's so refreshing when it works. [Same for wide shots rather than close-up frantically-cut action.] I'd never speed those up, and rather watch them on a day I have the time.

a9h74j 5y ago

Less Netflix, more chill?