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I don't want to install anything just to speed up Netflix. If you do, there are options. For my part, whenever I move to a new computer, I look up this incantation. I'm posting it myself to speed that up next time.
Open your browser's inspection tool to get to the JavaScript console, then enter this line of code with a number corresponding to the speed. 2.0 or 2 is 2x speed. It takes any non-negative number, including numbers between 0 and 1 to slow down the video. (0 pauses playback.) It also works for any HTML5 video, not just Netflix. The 'video' string is the default name and extremely common, although the website can change it to something else.
The real solution to this problem is Netflix exposing the HTML5 speed controls through their interface, but they are ghouls who refuse to do that. Likewise, there are creeps in Hollywood who insist they have some fictional right to make you watch TV at 1x speed against your will, and they lobby Netflix to prevent this functionality that already exists. They're making choices for you, and they are choosing to waste your life away. Be the lowest-tier cyberpunk you can be and take your time back from these monsters. At least, when you want to.
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Thanks to the folks at Microsoft and Netflix, I've gotten the new Xbox 360 console upgrade and have started watching Netflix movies on my Xbox this morning. A couple gaming sites have been doing some reviews as well and have raised a bunch of questions, some of which I have already asked Microsoft and Netflix and will update this post if I get answers.
The new Xbox 360 console update, which will be release to the public on November 19th, includes the highly anticipated ability to stream Netflix content to the Xbox 360 console as long as you are a Microsoft Live Gold customer and a Netflix customer.
After downloading the new console update and then downloading a small Netflix update, you active the streaming functionality by entering a code from your Xbox 360 into your Netflix account via the computer. From there, you can add Netflix videos into your watch now queue and they instantly show up on your Xbox 360. Navigating through your movies is done by going to the Netlfix box in the "Video Marketplace" channel which takes you to an app that allows you to very cleanly and very quickly flip through the movies in your queue. The movies are represented by cover artwork of each movie and even when you have a hundred or so titles in the queue, the app is super fast. I would compare the experience to being almost identical to flipping through albums in iTunes using Cover Flow. The only major downside here is that movies still have be added via the computer first, before they can be played back on the Xbox 360.
Once you select a movie, you get a screen with details about the video and the ability to rate the content as well as the ability to start, resume or remove the video. When you select play, the app checks your connection speed and buffers the video. For me, the videos buffered very fast and I never waited more than about ten seconds for any video to start. That may not be the startup time for the average consumer though as I am on a 20MB FiOS connection. While most movies are in SD, Netflix has to date made about 300 videos available in HD, many of which are TV series and not actual movies. Watching the SD movies on a 50" plasma screen looked amazing and HD is really incredible. The quality of the stream is all based on your connection speed and I am waiting on Netflix to hopefully give me details on the encoding bitrates being used. But the bottom line, the video quality is really, really good and in my eyes, is DVD quality with no frame rate issues.
Netflix and Microsoft have clearly thought about the experience, the ease of use and the quality of the videos being delivered and overall, I expect users will be very happy. That being said, this hands on review leaves me with three main questions that will dictate how successful the offering will be.
For starters, what is the business relationship and model behind the new service? With three parties involved, Microsoft, Netflix and content owners, whom is paying whom to make all this happen and how will money be made? I know this is a new service to start and hence, a clear business model has not yet been established. But over time, one will have to emerge.
Second, does the availability of getting movies on the Xbox 360 now mean that more content owners and in particular, major movie studios, will start giving Netflix the rights to encode and deliver more first-run movies? Hopefully so, but they still control the content and have a big say in the success that the Netflix service will have.
The only problem I do have is that sometimes those apps get a little finicky sometimes, as Netflix does when trying to switch accounts. Whether you're using an Xbox 360 or a PlayStation 3, it's just too damn difficult to log out and log back in with another account, since the Netflix account is directly associated with the PS3 and Xbox gamertag.
As it turns out, there's a little known secret that works for both the Xbox 360 and PS3 systems. When logged in to the Netflix app on your console, simple enter the secret combination below on your controller's directional pad.
What this code does is take you to the secret Netflix diagnostics page, which you can use to deactivate and log out of your account, then associate a different Netflix account with your gamertag, among other things.
All you have to do is go to your Netflix home and type in the simple code. Make sure that when you type in the code, you do it at a moderate pace. If you do it too quickly or too slowly, the code will not work.
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Most developers' day-to-day is inefficient primarily because of the dozens of fragmented services and tools they use to build, run and scale applications. The inefficiency inadvertently leads to lost productivity. For small companies, the fragmented developer experiences might be tolerable, but the need to unify them grows as the business grows.
Led by Brian Leathem, developers at Netflix, which had adopted a microservices architecture early on, found that this approach was becoming too fragmented as the platform tooling grew. They needed to unify developer experiences across the company's Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Brian Leathem shared these insights during PlatformCon 2022.
To unify developer experiences across Netflix's SDLC, the Platform Experiences and Design (PXD) team at Netflix decided to build a federated platform console. The Netflix federated platform console is a one-stop shop for all the tools engineers need to develop and deploy software at scale. It consolidates the dozens of services and tools developers use into a single, easy-to-use interface.
There are too many tools that developers have to work with daily, making it challenging to develop, deliver, and operate services and software. For instance, it is not unusual for a developer to use Bitbucket to review poll requests, Spinnaker to check on their deployment pipelines, Jenkins to check on their build failures, and internal alerting metric tools to check their operational status, etc., throughout the SDLC. In addition, they will likely need to repeat these workflows multiple times.
Product service owners at Netflix have created tools and documentation for developers, but many developers don't know the tools exist. Any developer will not immediately know the many tools and documentation their teams are using and might find themselves relying on tribal knowledge passed along to new team members. On the other hand, a developer that has been around longer might not know about new tools that have been added to improve their daily workflows.
When developers need to use multiple services and tools, they need to switch between them contextually. This can lead to inefficiencies and errors, as the developer might forget what they were doing in one tool when they switch to another.
It was clear to the PXD team at Netflix that the developers would benefit from a platform console that would serve as a common front door, giving them a single place to view and assess the status of their services and a launch point from which they could discover and reach the tools necessary to manage their services.
The PXD team wanted to leverage their success with GraphQL Federation in the Netflix Studio division to build the console's backend architecture. GraphQL Federation allows users to spin up a domain graph service (DGS) that exposes their service as part of a single federated graph accessible by a federated graph gateway. When the gateway handles a request, it delegates to the appropriate DGS to fulfill all the fields referenced in that request.
For the front end, the Platform Experiences and Design team wanted to federate the solution across the many platform teams and services they would bring together in the platform console. They understood that the scope of this effort would not be realizable by a single team; they would need to leverage both domain expertise and the code contributions of the platform, providers, and partners.
PXD's first stop was Hawkins, Netflix's internal design system with over 80 applications. These applications power Netflix content production, from pitch evaluation to financial forecasting and asset delivery. Using Hawkins across all platform products would enable more cross-tool workflows and provide users with a consistent experience.
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