Emma

[afuna]

Dear intertubes,

Thank you for making it easy possible to watch a show in sync with someone halfway across the world.

Love, Fu


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I just finished watching Emma with aveleh! :-D Much much much squeee. We split it across several viewing sessions, constrained by time on both sides and slow internet on my side. She had to basically give me a cliffs notes version of who was in which scene and why stuff was important, because I had a really difficult time telling John Knightley, Frank Churchill, and um, Mr.Knightley Knightley*, apart (among others). But but sooooooo much love for when... oh um is it a spoiler to say? Well, um. ANYWAY.

It was fun ^_^

* I cannot remember his first name for the life of me

Comments

[exor674]

mmm timecodes.

I actually wonder how hard it would be to write a cross-platform app that would act like an IRC client or something and do all that pinging automatically, and move the video around and stuffses to keep everyone at the same time

[afuna]

Hmm, I don't know. I do know that youtube has the extended URL thing that lets you jump straight to a timecode, but I don't know if that would require reloading the video or what.

There's also the issue of mismatch of internet speeds to think about! As happened to us, one person could have everything loaded, and the other person could have only half loaded, and you'd need to be pausing and stuff through it...

[sophie]

It could also be annoying to the person whose video gets moved. Maybe it would be better if it was sped up/slowed down rather than moved? The actual times won't be so different anyway.