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Comment by angarg12 | Hacker News Reader

A little bit offtopic, but are people really going ballistic over Netflix speed up feature? Has no one ever noticed Youtube has supported this since forever? Or that most video players have this feature? I also seem to remember plain DVD players having the ability to alter speed.

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The ones going ballistic over this are content creators who think that their artistic vision is being compromised. Everyone else either likes the feature or doesn't care.

Wow, nobody tell them about "Netflix and chill".

I turn it on myself in the web console, which works on Amazon as well:

    document.getElementsByTagName("video")[0].playbackRate = 1.5

document.querySelector('video').playbackRate = 2;

There are browser plugins for Chrome and Firefox that enable video speed controls on all HTML5 video elements.

My second favorite plugin of all time, right behind uBlock.

Also VHS and old film reels where you could speed up the motor.

but that raises the pitch of the audio

Reminds me of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21405779 -- "the creator should decide how his creation is experienced!" -- no, fuck you, I paid for this and I'm doing with it whatever I like.

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