Why Netflix Wants to Let You Control Playback Speed
Who’s the real director in our ambient TV era?
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6 min readDec 8, 2020
This past summer, The Verge reported that Netflix was experimenting with giving people the ability to control the playback of any show or film — from 0.5x slower to 1.5x faster. While Netflix was testing the feature primarily on Android mobile devices, the feature is now being spotted on desktops…