{"id":330755,"date":"2010-02-17T11:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T16:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37signals.com\/svn\/posts\/2163-how-netflix-ui-lets-you-fast-forward-streaming-movies"},"modified":"2010-02-17T11:07:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T16:07:00","slug":"how-netflix-ui-lets-you-fast-forward-streaming-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/330755","title":{"rendered":"How Netflix&#8217; UI lets you fast forward streaming movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/11\/technology\/personaltech\/11pogue.html\">In this article<\/a>, David Pogue mentions Netflix&#8217; neat technique for letting viewers fast forward streaming movies.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Remember, these videos are streamed to your TV (in other words, played from the Internet as you watch), so fast-forwarding and rewinding is a problem. The part of the movie you&#8217;d want to fast-forward to hasn&#8217;t arrived at your house yet.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix pioneered the clever workaround: when you press the right-arrow key, little thumbnails of coming scenes flash by, representing 10-second intervals. \u00a0You wait about 15 seconds for Netflix to resume playback at the new spot.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at the UI in action as you scroll to the right:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/37assets\/svn\/netflix_instant2.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"196\" alt=\"netflix\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/37assets\/svn\/netflix_instant3.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"196\" alt=\"netflix\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/37assets\/svn\/netflix_instant4.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"196\" alt=\"netflix\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/37signals\/beMH?a=BGXaulp83EU:4cdpu-1LQAU:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/37signals\/beMH?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/37signals\/beMH?a=BGXaulp83EU:4cdpu-1LQAU:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/37signals\/beMH?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this article, David Pogue mentions Netflix&#8217; neat technique for letting viewers fast forward streaming movies. Remember, these videos are streamed to your TV (in other words, played from the Internet as you watch), so fast-forwarding and rewinding is a problem. The part of the movie you&#8217;d want to fast-forward to hasn&#8217;t arrived at your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7020,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}