Re: [media-and-entertainment] Globally synchronized playback (#5)

> forcing viewers to leave familiar interfaces/services and start minding things like login and sessions and group memberships and chat and all these things

From what I can tell, the WebKit solution builds on native features that implement all of that, so is presumably tied into one vendor's solutions?

> What about just sharing a link if you want to watch VoD content with someone? This would be invisible for users that don't care for it, and easy enough for those who actively want to engage.

The BBC solution works in this way.

> That said, I don't think collaborative viewing even makes my "top 10 uses of global synchronization" - so estimation of content provider interest should ideally have a broader scope than just this one use case.

That's fair. Do you have a list written somewhere?

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