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Re: Show HN: Showgoers – Watch Netflix with friends remotely

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Post by stephengillie »

In the tradition of declaring something new as "X for Y", I declare this is "Cytube for Netflix". Or it will be, when you add chat functionality.

It's a really neat idea, and it's basically second-best to watching a video in the same room as someone else. It's really fun to watch shows with other people, have discussions about the show, and share the experience.

References (I didn't make these):

https://github.com/calzoneman/sync/wiki/CyTube-3.0-User-Guid...

https://Cytu.be

Re: Show HN: Showgoers – Watch Netflix with friends remotely

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Post by melvinram »

tthayer wrote: post #5

Does this do something like rebroadcasting the stream, or does it merely sync your place on a show using their own Netflix account?

I'd assume it just syncs the place. Otherwise, there would be a whole legal component to this that would likely result in a swift shutdown.

Re: Show HN: Showgoers – Watch Netflix with friends remotely

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Post by eremzeit »

tthayer wrote: post #5

Does this do something like rebroadcasting the stream, or does it merely sync your place on a show using their own Netflix account?

Good question. It uses websockets to send/receive sync commands to each individual browser, each of which has its own instance of netflix. So theoretically every user still needs to have their own Netflix account.

Re: Show HN: Showgoers – Watch Netflix with friends remotely

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Post by eremzeit »

melvinram wrote: post #6
tthayer wrote: post #5

Does this do something like rebroadcasting the stream, or does it merely sync your place on a show using their own Netflix account?

I'd assume it just syncs the place. Otherwise, there would be a whole legal component to this that would likely result in a swift shutdown.

Actually, there's another product that does that and somehow gets away with it. They actually open netflix on a virtual machine and use a ton of hacks to make it look like its you controlling it. The performance is horrible though because there is two hops.

https://rabb.it/

Re: Show HN: Showgoers – Watch Netflix with friends remotely

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Post by eremzeit »

stephengillie wrote: post #3

In the tradition of declaring something new as "X for Y", I declare this is "Cytube for Netflix". Or it will be, when you add chat functionality. It's a really neat idea, and it's basically second-best to watching a video in the same room as someone else. It's really fun to watch shows with other people, have discussions about the show, and share the experience. References (I didn't make these): https://github.com/ca…

Yeah it's like Cytube. My use case was that I'm in a long-distance relationship and we both are huge movie buffs. YouTube just simply doesn't have the content that we want. Netflix does but it doesn't allow embeds so it took a bit more trickery :)
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