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Re: Show HN: To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends

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Post by l1am0 »

philsnow wrote: post #90
l1am0 wrote: post #71

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Ah okay. So that button is to dominant Open the movie and check for autostart." is just the preperation to check if the video starts correctly e.g. if in firefox autoplay is allowed. The actually watch party starts when the countdown hits zero, by redirecting everyone in the same moment to the video. "Open the movie directly and ask in the voice chat what time you should jump to" is when you missed the start. Syncing…

If for some reason somebody joins late / gets kicked off, and you're watching something on youtube, youtube supports time-index URL fragments like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4-SxcCO5d0#t=3m17s , and you could start a new watchparty with that URL. It's heavyweight and probably better to just sync by somebody shouting a timestamp, but if you need things synced there you go.

Awesome idea! I plan to implement that today :D

Just calculating from the start time at what point in the movie everyone should be. e.g. You are half an hour late, so the others are around minute 30 (Y)

No need to start a new watch party (Y)

Re: Show HN: To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends

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Post by BiteCode_dev »

I'm still wondering how people manage to get bored in today's age.

You have millions of journals, books, music tracks, tv shows, films and video games. You have tutorials on youtube to learn new skill, such as cooking, yoga, DIY, coding, etc. You can chat, phone or email to all your relatives and friends.

You can take the opportunity to produce something, write, build, create, imagine. Even without a computer you can write or draw.

You can take time for yourself, sleep more, meditate, rest, do things slowly.

Please explain it to me, I genuinely don't understand.

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Post by JadeNB »

viklove wrote: post #123
40four wrote: post #118

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First off, great concept! I would like to try this at least once. But second, is that really true? I’m actually curious. I can’t imagine watching a rented movie in a private residence would be considered a ‘public’ viewing. If that is the case, where do they draw the line? Is it literally only for myself, the one person who purchased the rental? How many other people can be in the room? One, two, five , before the te…

He's wrong. No one has, or ever will be prosecuted for renting a movie and watching it with their friends in their living room.

Claiming that something is illegal, and pointing out that no-one has been prosecuted for it, are not contradictory.

Re: Show HN: To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends

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Post by tov_objorkin »

BiteCode_dev wrote: post #144

I'm still wondering how people manage to get bored in today's age. You have millions of journals, books, music tracks, tv shows, films and video games. You have tutorials on youtube to learn new skill, such as cooking, yoga, DIY, coding, etc. You can chat, phone or email to all your relatives and friends. You can take the opportunity to produce something, write, build, create, imagine. Even without a computer you can…

We're social animals, this is hardcoded part of our brain. Managing solitude require training as anything else.

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Post by rdlw »

masonic wrote: post #143
kazinator wrote: post #4

> To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends. I would call it "CoVid: watch videos together, remotely."

I'd call it "Pictures With Friends" (as opposed to Words With Friends).

While that certainly seems like a reasonable and legally distinct name to me, 'Golf with Friends' was forced to change its name by Zynga, so be careful with that.

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Post by rdlw »

MivLives wrote: post #66
Reedx wrote: post #55

Anyone remember turntable.fm? I know a bunch of replacements popped up, but nothing seemed to capture the same kind of magic...

Yes, I actually helped make a clone of it for my final college project. Since then the cocnept has sort of died. I'm a little surprised it's not something that Spotify did more with. I know they have a colistening feature but I have yet to have anyone want to attempt that. As far as I can tell you need to link up by Facebook to even attempt that.

You can colisten to somebody's Spotify through Discord. Sadly it's a pretty obscure feature no one uses much, but it's worked well the couple of times I've tried it.

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Post by gliboc »

adrianmonk wrote: post #124
effingwewt wrote: post #107

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Still greed if you ask me, how would it be different from me renting a movie at home and having friends over? I dread the day when we have forced ocular/ear implants that allow for the blocking of anything we dont have a license for. Nonetheless I get your point, I just believe it's sad that for all the innovation a free market touts, all I remember are the cool/amazing/interesting things they took from us by stiflin…

> how would it be different from me renting a movie at home and having friends over? It would be different because Netflix has a contract to pay money for that licensed content, and sooner or later, that contract will need to be renewed. At that point, a Hollywood exec and a Netflix exec will sit across a boardroom table, and the Hollywood exec will say, "Your offer sounds OK, but we need to stop this watch party thi…

Or maybe Netflix could say "no this is a service we are providing to our users" and then the big "Hollywood exec" would be like "ok maybe we will not sit on the million dollars we get from our agreement" and that would be it.

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Post by rendaw »

vinniejames wrote: post #102
effingwewt wrote: post #40

I love this. I still speak fondly of the early days of netlfix, when it first got into streaming on the 360. You could invite an xbox live party to watch movies on Netflix. It had a border you could enable that made it look like a theatre screen with seats, with your live avatars sitting in them, a la Mystery Science Theatre. There was nothing quite like being in a chat party watching movies together. You could talk…

It's not greed, it's licensing. Copyright owners wouldn't allow it, facilitating copyright infringement isn't good business

So require that the other viewers also have Netflix accounts? But they don't do that either.
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