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

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Post by swang »

blhack wrote: post #70
robertcorey wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you may have sleep apnea.

Huh, my dad has sleep apnea. What about waking up to Star Trek makes you think that, though? What I mean by waking up is like: do you ever wake up in the middle of the night to the dog wanting to go out, or a noise outside or something? You come awake just enough to process what is going on, and then go back to sleep right away. For instance: sometimes I'll wake up to the really faint sound of somebody jingling keys…

The way you described it sounded like you just randomly wake up in the middle of the night, which _can_ be related to sleep apnea. If you're waking up that easily it _could_ also mean that you're not going into deep and REM sleep because your brain needs to keep you at a certain level to wake you in case you can't breathe.

Edit: or you're just a light sleeper, but generally waking up several times a night is not common.

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

#92

Post by jacalata »

rogerbinns wrote: post #32
josh64 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It happens on Apple TV (previous generation) as well, but it seems to be consistent and it will do it after about 2 hours.

It has been way less than 2 hours on Chromecast, but that isn't a scientific test. My anecdata is that they seem to do it when you least want them too, yet keep playing episode after episode when you turn things off and Netflix didn't get paused for whatever reason (see this on Roku as well which doesn't seem to detect that the HDMI receiver is switched to standby/off).

It stops on my xbox after a couple of episodes whether or not I turn the TV off

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

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Post by nivla »

floatrock wrote: post #42

I RTFA, I know this an arduino-based DIY hobby project. But if something like this ever comes out for real, the ability to doze off and pause your TV show will be a trojan horse... You've seen those charts where people use their smart watch to record their heart rate during the game of thrones finale? (No? Here you go: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/08/13/what-game-of-thrones-... ) Sure, downloading the Netflix pau…

Actually Microsoft has a patent on something similar [1]. It uses Kinect to sense your mood before delivering an appropriate ad.

[1] http://www.geekwire.com/2012/happy-sad-microsoft-system-targ...

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

#94

Post by vidarh »

Pxtl wrote: post #55
slavik81 wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Futurama and the Simpsons are really the main shows this applies to, as in both the opening credits have been made to be a feature of the episode.

Simpsons have of course taken it far more extreme than Futurama, by making the sofa gag into an at time extremely elaborate part of the show.

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

#95

Post by rezashirazian »

Someone1234 wrote: post #15
bpicolo wrote: post #8

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

What interests me is how inconsistent it is. For example, I can go a whole afternoon some days without it auto-pausing, while others as you said, you can go two episodes and it will pause on you. I suspect Netflix tracks window focus via JavaScript at minimal, and maybe other metrics too to try and guesstimate user idle-ness. Interestingly when I am in a full screen game (and Netflix on another screen) it "never" pau…

they might have a "binge-ness" score for every show. If they know people usually don't binge more than three episodes of Scandal then they can safely assume that the TV has been left on when the fourth episode kicks in.

They may even construct segmented binge patterns where they know episodes 3 to 6 of House Of Cards usually gets binged where as episodes 1 and 2 usually do not.

Building and training these segments would appear random to the end user but after awhile should be good at guessing when the TV has been left on or the user is binge watching.

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

#96

Post by graedus »

HelloMcFly wrote: post #67
floatrock wrote: post #42

I RTFA, I know this an arduino-based DIY hobby project. But if something like this ever comes out for real, the ability to doze off and pause your TV show will be a trojan horse... You've seen those charts where people use their smart watch to record their heart rate during the game of thrones finale? (No? Here you go: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/08/13/what-game-of-thrones-... ) Sure, downloading the Netflix pau…

I can imagine a world where the eventual primary use for type of technology is for for ad-based content where the screen pauses when you stop paying attention to the ad. No worries about that with Netflix, at least.

Already well underway. From a patent held by Sony Computer Entertainment America Llc [0]:

http://i.imgur.com/bPz5i7A.png

[0] http://www.google.com/patents/US8246454

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

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Post by jeffjose »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #81
floatrock wrote: post #42

I RTFA, I know this an arduino-based DIY hobby project. But if something like this ever comes out for real, the ability to doze off and pause your TV show will be a trojan horse... You've seen those charts where people use their smart watch to record their heart rate during the game of thrones finale? (No? Here you go: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/08/13/what-game-of-thrones-... ) Sure, downloading the Netflix pau…

Oh its a lot more sinister than that, and its already here. An app I tried to run on my Android phone would run a video ad before it started, it used the front facing camera to determine if someone was looking at the phone. I looked away and started typing on my laptop and the ad paused, I looked back and it restarted, I looked away and the ad paused. I looked back and deleted the App.

What was this app?

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

#98

Post by furyofantares »

swang wrote: post #91
blhack wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Huh, my dad has sleep apnea. What about waking up to Star Trek makes you think that, though? What I mean by waking up is like: do you ever wake up in the middle of the night to the dog wanting to go out, or a noise outside or something? You come awake just enough to process what is going on, and then go back to sleep right away. For instance: sometimes I'll wake up to the really faint sound of somebody jingling keys…

The way you described it sounded like you just randomly wake up in the middle of the night, which _can_ be related to sleep apnea. If you're waking up that easily it _could_ also mean that you're not going into deep and REM sleep because your brain needs to keep you at a certain level to wake you in case you can't breathe. Edit: or you're just a light sleeper, but generally waking up several times a night is not comm…

> or you're just a light sleeper, but generally waking up several times a night is not common.

Especially if the TV is on

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

#99

Post by pyrocat »

nivla wrote: post #93
floatrock wrote: post #42

I RTFA, I know this an arduino-based DIY hobby project. But if something like this ever comes out for real, the ability to doze off and pause your TV show will be a trojan horse... You've seen those charts where people use their smart watch to record their heart rate during the game of thrones finale? (No? Here you go: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/08/13/what-game-of-thrones-... ) Sure, downloading the Netflix pau…

Actually Microsoft has a patent on something similar [1]. It uses Kinect to sense your mood before delivering an appropriate ad. [1] http://www.geekwire.com/2012/happy-sad-microsoft-system-targ...

#1 reason I never bought a Kinect / Xbox One.

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

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Post by stephengoodwin »

floatrock wrote: post #42

I RTFA, I know this an arduino-based DIY hobby project. But if something like this ever comes out for real, the ability to doze off and pause your TV show will be a trojan horse... You've seen those charts where people use their smart watch to record their heart rate during the game of thrones finale? (No? Here you go: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/08/13/what-game-of-thrones-... ) Sure, downloading the Netflix pau…

I would have loved to see that chart for the Red Wedding.
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