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> as they were hard to support? X to doubt. The tech worked fine. The real issue is that nobody wants choose-your-own-adventure TV, which has been proven aga

by silisili 10mo ago

> as they were hard to support? X to doubt. The tech worked fine. The real issue is that nobody wants choose-your-own-adventure TV, which has been proven again and again.

teekert 10mo ago
My kid loved that interactive Bear Grylls stuff, still talks about it sometimes (what his wrong choices were etc.) Sometimes I think they kill this stuff before it get mainstream. Also, some way to control via the TV, or Chromecast may have made this more popular.
- knallfrosch 10mo ago
  I remember Bear Grills "You vs. Wild" as one of the most well-known interactive shows. It's strange it's never mentioned in articles about interactive Netflix features.
nbevans 10mo ago
I see. But surely Netflix could have setup 1 to 3 of the "best" variants of the Bandersnatch and let people watch those? Even a "directors cut" based on how the director chose the path, would suffice. The content is entirely gone right now. Which is pretty tragic as it was excellent.
- jsheard 10mo ago
  > The content is entirely gone right now. It's officially gone, but you can acquire the raw video through other means and plug it into this open source reimplementation of the frontend: https://mehotkhan.github.io/BandersnatchInteractive/ https://mehotkhan.github.io/BandersnatchInteractive/
  - Angostura 10mo ago
    It's a pity Brooker didn't have some residual IP control so it could have been republished elsewhere. I honestly think it was a little masterpiece that deserved to be saved.
  - throwaway-38nmm 10mo ago
    This is really exciting, but I'm having an immense amount of trouble finding the single 1080p-quality release that is listed as known to work. Edit: For that matter, I actually can't seem to find the 720p releases either.
    - password4321 10mo ago
      I am not an expert but as long as the video is playable by the browser (x264 - Chrome apparently supports the most formats) and the same duration (05:12:14) it should work. This is from 7 years ago but you can see if there's any helpful discussion attempting to use the initial release: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bandersnatch/comments/adnn2h/github_joricbandersnatch_black_mirror/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Bandersnatch/comments/adnn2h/github...
    - rendx 10mo ago
      Not sure if any of these work but worth a try: https://www.xdcc.eu/search.php?searchkey=bandersnatch https://www.xdcc.eu/search.php?searchkey=bandersnatch https://1337x.to/search/bandersnatch/1/ https://1337x.to/search/bandersnatch/1/
Nursie 10mo ago
That was a standalone piece though, rather than some sort of trend. The choose-your-own nature of it was integral to the story and referential to the contemporary books which were CYO. Your theory fits fine with “We’re not going to make a series like this or turn it into a genre”, but not so well with “we already made this thing and it was really popular, but we’ve decided to take it off the platform”
- jsheard 10mo ago
  Netflix did try to turn it into a genre, they made a few dozen CYOA specials before giving up. https://www.polygon.com/22286070/netflix-interactive-shows-movies-ranked-choose-love-review/ https://www.polygon.com/22286070/netflix-interactive-shows-m...

> as they were hard to support? X to doubt. The tech worked fine. The real issue is that nobody wants choose-your-own-adventure TV, which has been proven again and again.

teekert 10mo ago

My kid loved that interactive Bear Grylls stuff, still talks about it sometimes (what his wrong choices were etc.) Sometimes I think they kill this stuff before it get mainstream. Also, some way to control via the TV, or Chromecast may have made this more popular.

knallfrosch 10mo ago
I remember Bear Grills "You vs. Wild" as one of the most well-known interactive shows. It's strange it's never mentioned in articles about interactive Netflix features.

nbevans 10mo ago

I see. But surely Netflix could have setup 1 to 3 of the "best" variants of the Bandersnatch and let people watch those? Even a "directors cut" based on how the director chose the path, would suffice. The content is entirely gone right now. Which is pretty tragic as it was excellent.

jsheard 10mo ago
> The content is entirely gone right now. It's officially gone, but you can acquire the raw video through other means and plug it into this open source reimplementation of the frontend: https://mehotkhan.github.io/BandersnatchInteractive/ https://mehotkhan.github.io/BandersnatchInteractive/
- Angostura 10mo ago
  It's a pity Brooker didn't have some residual IP control so it could have been republished elsewhere. I honestly think it was a little masterpiece that deserved to be saved.
- throwaway-38nmm 10mo ago
  This is really exciting, but I'm having an immense amount of trouble finding the single 1080p-quality release that is listed as known to work. Edit: For that matter, I actually can't seem to find the 720p releases either.
  - password4321 10mo ago
    I am not an expert but as long as the video is playable by the browser (x264 - Chrome apparently supports the most formats) and the same duration (05:12:14) it should work. This is from 7 years ago but you can see if there's any helpful discussion attempting to use the initial release: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bandersnatch/comments/adnn2h/github_joricbandersnatch_black_mirror/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Bandersnatch/comments/adnn2h/github...
  - rendx 10mo ago
    Not sure if any of these work but worth a try: https://www.xdcc.eu/search.php?searchkey=bandersnatch https://www.xdcc.eu/search.php?searchkey=bandersnatch https://1337x.to/search/bandersnatch/1/ https://1337x.to/search/bandersnatch/1/

Nursie 10mo ago

That was a standalone piece though, rather than some sort of trend. The choose-your-own nature of it was integral to the story and referential to the contemporary books which were CYO. Your theory fits fine with “We’re not going to make a series like this or turn it into a genre”, but not so well with “we already made this thing and it was really popular, but we’ve decided to take it off the platform”

jsheard 10mo ago
Netflix did try to turn it into a genre, they made a few dozen CYOA specials before giving up. https://www.polygon.com/22286070/netflix-interactive-shows-movies-ranked-choose-love-review/ https://www.polygon.com/22286070/netflix-interactive-shows-m...