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Netflix socks detect when you've dozed off and pause your TV show

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Re: Netflix socks detect when you've dozed off and pause your TV show

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post #34

What about socks for truck drivers to detect if they are dozing? Have them set off a phone alarm, etc. Better yet, can FitBit, etc. detect dozing and use the vibrating alarm to alert?

I think this problem is usually solved by having a person press some button every once in a while[0].

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_switch#Vigilance_...

Re: Netflix socks detect when you've dozed off and pause your TV show

#52
post #8

I'm mostly sad that Netflix detects nothing and pauses my show anyway after a couple episodes. : (

I've noticed that they seem to start prompting more and more rapidly. If I'm binging on a new show, I can start Saturday morning and not get prompted until shortly after noon, say, but then I'll get prompted at 1:30 and then 2:30 and then after the next episode (numbers made up, but you get the idea).

This is really annoying, and the opposite of the sort of smart adaptive behaviour I'd like to see. It'd be great if Netflix could detect, 'this guy seems to have regular work hours (because he normally watches Netflix at a regular time), and appears to be binge-watching a TV show; let's not bother him.'

But then, the Netflix app is still terribly primitive compared to their website, so…maybe I'm asking for too much.

Re: Netflix socks detect when you've dozed off and pause your TV show

#53
post #34

What about socks for truck drivers to detect if they are dozing? Have them set off a phone alarm, etc. Better yet, can FitBit, etc. detect dozing and use the vibrating alarm to alert?

While I think an alertness sensor is probably a good idea for drivers, I don't think an accelerometer is a useful way of going about it. These don't really notice that a user is asleep until they have entered a fairly deep sleep, which is fine for pausing a TV show but far too late for alerting someone who is operating a motor vehicle.

With Netflix if the accelerometer doesn't notice you've fallen for 5 minutes before pausing, that's totally fine. If the user is operating a motor vehicle and has been asleep for 5 minutes it'll be a miracle if they're still alive.

Re: Netflix socks detect when you've dozed off and pause your TV show

#54
post #8

I'm mostly sad that Netflix detects nothing and pauses my show anyway after a couple episodes. : (

That really only became possible when they decided to auto-play new episodes, which is a bad feature in general. There are quite a few shows with really nice music videos in their ending credits. Shrinking the video to the size of a postage stamp and kicking me into a new episode is a rather annoying. They also have a terrible habit of skipping the opening credits. The credits are often funny or beautiful. Every time…

Yes, this. I turned off the auto-play-next feature but there is no way to avoid the shrink-credits thing. :-/

I never noticed it skipping the opening credits though.

Re: Netflix socks detect when you've dozed off and pause your TV show

#55
post #8

I'm mostly sad that Netflix detects nothing and pauses my show anyway after a couple episodes. : (

That really only became possible when they decided to auto-play new episodes, which is a bad feature in general. There are quite a few shows with really nice music videos in their ending credits. Shrinking the video to the size of a postage stamp and kicking me into a new episode is a rather annoying. They also have a terrible habit of skipping the opening credits. The credits are often funny or beautiful. Every time…

Different strokes for different folks - I like watching the opening credits for the 1st episode, but not the 3rd.

Re: Netflix socks detect when you've dozed off and pause your TV show

#57
Please don't use Netflix and other paid streaming services. By doing this you support Digital Restrictions Management development and finance copyright lobby.

https://stallman.org/netflix.html

If you want to watch their shows too much, download them illegally via file sharing services. They can arrest a very limited number of people, and by engaging in such activity you lower other people's chances to be persecuted.

Re: Netflix socks detect when you've dozed off and pause your TV show

#58

Please don't use Netflix and other paid streaming services. By doing this you support Digital Restrictions Management development and finance copyright lobby. https://stallman.org/netflix.html If you want to watch their shows too much, download them illegally via file sharing services. They can arrest a very limited number of people, and by engaging in such activity you lower other people's chances to be persecuted.

Netflix is more convenient than torrenting for me. I'll continue to use Netflix.

Re: Netflix socks detect when you've dozed off and pause your TV show

#59

Please don't use Netflix and other paid streaming services. By doing this you support Digital Restrictions Management development and finance copyright lobby. https://stallman.org/netflix.html If you want to watch their shows too much, download them illegally via file sharing services. They can arrest a very limited number of people, and by engaging in such activity you lower other people's chances to be persecuted.

People still pay attention to Stallman? What century is this?

Re: Netflix socks detect when you've dozed off and pause your TV show

#60

Please don't use Netflix and other paid streaming services. By doing this you support Digital Restrictions Management development and finance copyright lobby. https://stallman.org/netflix.html If you want to watch their shows too much, download them illegally via file sharing services. They can arrest a very limited number of people, and by engaging in such activity you lower other people's chances to be persecuted.

I would argue that you can choose to watch these streaming services and support DRM, or you can speak with your wallet and refuse to watch their shows. Pirating the shows is pretty unambiguously unethical IMHO.
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