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Show HN: Comment on on-demand TV as if everyone is watching at the same time
- michaelmior 13y agoThis seems pretty cool! Curious to try it out. One problem which doesn't seem to be addressed is the varying length of commercials (or no commercials) depending on what platform the show is viewed on.
- fragmede 13y agoor variable quality of the fast-forward button operator.
- stefanwild 13y agoYes, we're focussing on Netflix and HBO shows at the moment to circumvent that. Working on several approaches for automatic syncing. Thanks for trying it out!
- tiger0915 13y agoThat sounds awesome!
- stefanwild 13y agoThank you. We appreciate the feedback!
- jrockway 13y agoThis is niconico's main feature. I've wondered why it hasn't caught on elsewhere.
- hofstee 13y agoCame here to say this. It's entertaining to watch everyone commenting burst into laughter as the screen fills with w's.
- stefanwild 13y agoThat's great input. We were not aware of that site and feature. We have come across a few similar concepts, which were either split-screen for online video (as I understand niconico works) or not conversations (if they were 2nd screen).
- mukyu 13y agoIn addition to their overlaid streaming comments on videos (think youtube) and live streams (justin.tv/twitch, etc) they actually have a section for live tv[1]. [1] http://jk.nicovideo.jp/ http://jk.nicovideo.jp/
- stefanwild 13y agoThanks for the link. Now I have to brush up on my non-existant Japanese skills.
- angryasian 13y agoI know there are a lot of shows that don't require full attention, but I usually don't waste my time with those kinds of shows. I don't know how people can twitter, or chat on their phone and still pay attention to good shows that require a level of attention like Game of Thrones.
- edgarvaldes 13y agoAgreed. It make a lot more sense for sports.
- uptown 13y agoWhich is one of the least time-shifted forms of content.
- sp332 13y agoWell... that's what this fixes :)
- silverlight 13y agoI think they mean, it's one of the types of shows that people don't typically record because they want to watch it live, so this would not be useful for sports.
- sp332 13y agoA major reason for wanting to watch it live is that it's so easy to have it spoiled. And for a lot of people, a game (much more than other TV) isn't worth watching if you know the outcome. So partly, people want to watch the "action" live, but also, they just don't feel like watching it later. This can address the second part.
- 6cxs2hd6 13y agoThat's interesting. I almost always time-shift sports. Stuff like American football is otherwise interminable. Even when I want to get to the finish, live, I just start watching an hour after the recording begins. Fast forward through commercials and head-under-hood challenges, etc. If it's a game I'm only semi-interested in, I'll wait until it's completely finished. Then just FF until I notice a score change, back up some reasonable number of minutes. Voila, personal highlight reel.
- jbigelow76 13y agoVery cool concept, great domain too :)
- stefanwild 13y agoThank you. I have a funny little anecdote how that came to be. Will save that for a stage appearance, though ;)
- dave84 13y agoThis combined with Shazam style listening to sync up the position would be killer.
- stefanwild 13y agoWorking on this and several other approaches to sync up. It's a challenge and won't happen in this phase of the beta, but it's doable.
- petercooper 13y agoTwitter has actually encouraged me to only watch certain shows "live" because the backchannel snark and commentary is more entertaining than the actual show (The Apprentice is a particular standout in this regard).
- stefanwild 13y agoAnd they're really good at that, agreed. But they're not catering to the (at least) two thirds of people that don't watch live. This number from some relatively recent Game of Thrones ratings that admitted on not counting a lot of on-demand (as well as pirating, of course)
- crystaln 13y agoSeems like replaying the twitter chatter in time would be more interesting than creating a new content silo.
- stefanwild 13y agoWe thought about importing (and timecoding) twitter chatter during the first airing of the shows. And then we realized just how scattered and off-topic that chatter really is for the most part.
- mattryanharris 13y agoThis is something I've actually wanted for awhile! Watching movies and TV is nice but whenever I watch it with an IRC chat it suddenly gets SO MUCH better.
- stefanwild 13y agoGreat to hear. Thanks for the tweet, too.
- stefanwild 13y agoBy the way, one of the shows that we already feature in the beta, is of course Silicon Valley. Be sure to check it out.
- joshvm 13y agoHow will you deal with users who spoil shows on purpose? Could I watch the first episode of Game of Thrones, sync with the app and post "OMG ----- dies!" right at the start? I assume if you can watch time shifted comments they're moderated in some way (or perhaps flagged by the community)?
- stefanwild 13y agoYes, there's upvoting and downvoting implemented in the beta, already and that will filter out spoilers pretty quickly. If we see anybody doing it on purpose, we'd block and eventually ban the user.
- addedlovely 13y agoSo the name makes sense? I'm definitely not your target market here, if i'm devoting time to TV i'm focussed on enjoying that, alone or with the people in the room.
- 650REDHAIR 13y agoI love everything about this! Looking forward to having conversations with my family and friends spread around the US.
- stefanwild 13y agoWe love you, too. Thank you.
- politician 13y agoI loved watching the Republican and Democrat National Conventions while tuned into Twitter. Maybe I'll use spoilr next time around.
- woopdy 13y agoIt reminds me of Soundcloud, where comments pop in at the moment where they're inserted.
- stefanwild 13y agoRight to the point. Soundcloud's way of doing the comments was of our inspirations.