It is not clear to me if everybody in the party needs to have netflix. (or whatever service was chosen)
Show HN: To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends
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#102I 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
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#103I 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
I don't know, YouTube does OK.
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#104Can you easily add the ability to share screen or application so I can watch a video file with a friend?
I assume they avoided that on purpose due to copyright.
I don't see how you could hold someone liable just for allowing you to screenshare.
I think it'd be interesting to accept file-based input, and stream via webrtc.
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#105I 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…
Thanks for all your kind feedback: Did not think of donations so far, but here is my paypal: https://www.paypal.me/51edpo Binge Together, still needs everyone involved to have an account with the streaming services, thoug.
Wonderful, and awesome work! Saw the donation links up, came back to say thanks and good luck with future endeavors!
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#107I 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
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 stifling real innovation.
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#108https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18123862 is great. Really, really great. No idea why it's not more widely recognized or used.
(also shilling) Another similar site (that a friend of mine built) is TeamFlix. He built it to stream with his brother and didn't find any alternatives (this was a few years ago now). https://teamflix.com/
I am not shilling, I found the site just yesterday after much effort in searching and I am usually pretty good at searching. Learning it was basically a family effort: my brother and I have been online since 1993 and he has a librarian degree and I am a software developer / hacker and this combo has led to much expertise. My brother is better -- he can search in languages he can't read or write. It's like a magic trick.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not greed, it's licensing. Copyright owners wouldn't allow it, facilitating copyright infringement isn't good business
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…
Technically, when you rent a movie, you are not allowed to invite friends over to watch it with you. By renting the title, you were granted a temporary private viewing license. Inviting people over constituted a public viewing. Copyright laws are ludicrous.
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#110similar to netflixparty.com except: - it also supports prime/youtube/vimeo - it has an audio/video chat instead of a simple text chat - it doesn't require a chrome extension - it doesn't actually sync across the viewers? (start time, play/pause) does it mean you can literally support other platforms without any integration?
>it doesn't actually sync across the viewers? (start time, play/pause)
What is even the point then? It's litearlly the only feature I expect from such service.