[HN Gopher] Show HN: Netflix Calculator
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Show HN: Netflix Calculator
Author : attero
Score : 38 points
Date : 2022-07-17 16:09 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| iLoveOncall wrote:
| Keep in mind it counts anything you ever played as watched, even
| if you dropped after one second.
|
| I'm surprised to see I have 100h throughout the whole year
| (including the caveat I mentioned above). I feel like I spent
| more time trying to find something decent to watch than actually
| watching stuff...
| Meltiono wrote:
| I'm not browsing netflix regularly but we have a few tv shows
| which are worth keeping netflix anyway like the current
| Stranger Things, The Umbrella Academy, Russion Doll, Better
| Call Saul, ...
|
| Next to that we watch normally one old TV Show which is the
| easy way to go to. Right now its Friends. Bevor that it was
| Star Trek Voyager.
|
| Thats enough for me already to not feel bad for paying $10 per
| month for it.
|
| But than there is also something we don't have in germany:
| super weird tv shows like 'The floor is lava' or 'is it cake?'.
| I scroll through them and watch a whole season in lets say 1-2
| hours by watching the start and forwarding to the end or so.
| And there are so many of them and surprisingly interesting like
| the glass stuff or the chocolate show with Amaury Guichon,
| which is crazy :D
| harles wrote:
| Pretty neat. For me, I'd love to see something like this for
| YouTube. Perhaps it's just my bad habits, but I find I generally
| spend time on what I'd consider quality entertainment (that is, I
| don't regret having spent time on it) for Netflix, Amazon, Hulu,
| and the like.
|
| YouTube on the other hand, I'll usually start with something I
| consider quality like 3b1b and then end up watching much more of
| forgettable things I regret. Whenever I go to resume a video on
| YouTube via browsing my history, I'm always in shock of just how
| much crap I've watched.
| Meltiono wrote:
| Didn't know netflix actually allows to download this.
|
| Very nice, but now i'm way more curious than before. Like
| prefered weekdays, top tv shows (i watch and others watch) etc.
|
| I would also like to see when its more or less 'netflix time'.
|
| Like right now we have stranger things, the umbrella academy and
| better call saul. Could easily be visualized and potentially even
| inform me when i can unsubscribe temporarily (not that it matters
| that much for a few bucks per month)
| blackoil wrote:
| I watch a lot of content at 1.5-2X speed
| Forge36 wrote:
| What content are you watching?
| djitz wrote:
| This is the new "I read 4 books per week"
| system2 wrote:
| Reading requires effort.
| hombre_fatal wrote:
| I was surprised how much attention faculties reading
| requires once I started back up. I even read articles again
| instead of just the comments section. I didn't realize how
| much I lost until I had to work to recover it.
|
| I now abhor cheap entertainment for that.
| drexlspivey wrote:
| Way to reduce any artistic quality of the movie to 0. Could you
| explain the reason for this? Are movies/shows too boring in
| normal speed? Are you trying to watch as many as possible?
| kretaceous wrote:
| I assume the OP is watching documentaries or likewise.
| popotamonga wrote:
| I watch everything at 1.5 movies seasons etc. Stuff is too
| slow i just want to absorb it.
| ngetchell wrote:
| Can you define what you mean by absorb? My wife loves the
| TV on in the background while doing other things. Are you
| after the same goal?
|
| I'm worried about everything being reduced to "content"
| like it is all interchangeable.
| pearjuice wrote:
| Too much filler cut scenes and slow dialogue. For example,
| Suits has notorious slow dialogue and lots of cut scenes
| hovering over city buildings which add nothing to the script.
| Watching it at 1.5x makes me miss absolutely nothing and
| reduces episodes of 45 minutes to roughly half an hour.
| least wrote:
| You miss almost everything, actually. The only thing you
| retain by watching it at 1.5x speed is the dialogue and
| some sort of vague approximation of the visuals. I'm not
| suggesting that you shouldn't be able to enjoy tv as you
| do, but you're definitely incorrect to assert you're
| missing "absolutely nothing."
| bee_rider wrote:
| I mean, they've reported that they miss absolutely
| nothing, and the experience of watching a TV show is a
| subjective one. While I don't mess around with the speed,
| I haven't seen any compelling arguments that somebody
| _couldn 't_ get it all watching at 1.5x speed.
| vishnuharidas wrote:
| Good tool, but a sample result will be really helpful so that
| people can see how it looks without sharing their private data.
| anewpersonality wrote:
| For shame if you watch Netflix.
| irrational wrote:
| I don't have a Netflix subscription, but I do have a Disney+
| subscription. Is there a similar thing for Disney+?
| abhinickz wrote:
| I use tvtime.com
| attero wrote:
| No :), I'm not sure how hard would it to build it, but I
| haven't built it yet (also because I don't use Disney+).
| sys_64738 wrote:
| Me? Zero hours per month.
| just_for_you wrote:
| Same here.
|
| Like alcohol, drugs and smoking, endless streaming media is
| just something I don't touch. I know there's an insane amount
| of good content to watch out there, but I'm content with not
| knowing what it's like diving into that rabbit hole.
| attero wrote:
| Good for you!
| throwoutway wrote:
| Zero. Cancelled it a long time ago and haven't looked back.
| gumby wrote:
| I have an injury and am spending more time watching video. I was
| surprised that Netflix isn't that great in terms of content any
| more and their app has gone downhill (1.5x is great, but it often
| loses video synch if you press the back button repeatedly).
|
| The competition's apps are mostly worse. Disney's is probably the
| best, but content is also blah
| system2 wrote:
| I can't believe people still watch netflix. Algorithm generated
| content for simpletons.
| hombre_fatal wrote:
| There's plenty of good content. I think people who say this are
| stuck in a very narrow comfort bubble. The kind of person who
| gets mad when a single show gets taken away, like The Office.
|
| For example, just check out the best content from other
| countries. Should take you a while if you have a healthy life
| balance and don't watch netflix all day.
| Meltiono wrote:
| No need for you to bashing netflix if you don't like their
| content.
|
| Its $10 per month, 2 coffees.
|
| I also do watch a lot of tv shows and movies for the last 15/20
| years (also stuff besides mainstream) and there are pretty good
| tv shows on netflix. Stranger Things, The Umbrella Academy,
| Better Call Saul, Russian Doll, Love Death and Robots (the last
| season was weirder than usual though), Space force (super
| quirky, love it!), The Witcher, Arcane, Superstore, Squid Game
| bee_rider wrote:
| The vast majority of media is lowest-common-denominator trash,
| netflix isn't special in that regard. I dunno. I watch tv to
| shut off my brain, or more likely put it on in the background
| while doing something more productive. Lots of people have
| complicated enough day jobs, let's not begrudge their low-power
| regeneration state.
| z9znz wrote:
| Not lately. The quality of content has gone so far down that I
| would need such a tool for Disney or even Prime.
|
| We have entered the period of series-hell, where content has been
| algorithmically reduced to the minimum which will make someone
| come back.
|
| Even re-watching old series is dull. Granted, I still get a
| chuckle or two from My Name Is Earl (Hulu, and highly recommended
| if you're American and especially from the south). I'm also
| trained to lose focus easily, so making me wait a week for an
| update (or in the case of the latest Star Trek... waiting 1+
| years!???) will basically make me forget it even existed.
|
| It feels a bit like a natural finality of television. Anything
| that could be done has been done. Any story that could be told
| has been told. They've upped the volume on any aspect - sex,
| violence, fear, whatever. I am no longer entertained. I've seen
| reasonable people mutilate people ("Once Upon A Time In
| Hollywood" I hate you) for no good reason. We might as well be
| watching people shove grenades up their bums (give porn sites 1-2
| years, it will happen).
|
| It all reminds me of a Blackadder scene:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmk4PfuiPVY
|
| This is when we realize that our reality is a farce, perhaps
| self-created.
|
| You are welcome for this tour to the end times!
| Couch_Surfer wrote:
| Nifty usage of previous history, are you looking up Netflix's
| title number against an OS database?
| Phelinofist wrote:
| idk seems wrong:
|
| Analysis results
|
| Found 2123 videos in the watch history. Assuming average 40
| minutes per video... Recent stats 0 minutes
| this year so far 0 minutes on average per day during last
| 30 days
|
| All time stats (over last 0 days) 1415 hours 20
| minutes during all time Infinity hours on average per day
| Infinity hours on average per week
| dhritzkiv wrote:
| Same here:
|
| Found 5098 videos in the watch history. Assuming average 40
| minutes per video... 0 minutes this year so
| far 0 minutes on average per day during last 30 days
|
| All time stats (over last 0 days) 3398 hours
| 40 minutes during all time Infinity hours on average
| per day Infinity hours on average per week
| kiawe_fire wrote:
| I might need something that tells me how much time I spend
| browsing Netflix only to not watch anything.
|
| My Netflix habit consists of aspiring to actually watch something
| as a way to relax before bed, opening the app, scrolling through
| a bunch of lists, deciding "that looks really good, I should
| probably save that to watch with my dad", "this looks good but
| too heavy for me tonight", "this looks good but only one season
| that ended 2 years ago, so probably cancelled", "this looks like
| a candidate but I'll keep looking just in case"...
|
| 45 minutes later, I'm tired, and either close the app or watch 5
| minutes of something only to decide I'm too tired to follow it
| and that's that.
|
| I don't have this problem with short YouTube videos or music.
| Even books I can eventually power through and make a choice.
|
| But movies and video games I have severe analysis paralysis that
| leads to a lot of browsing and no actual watching or playing.
| It's frustrating.
| Xeoncross wrote:
| > 45 minutes later, I'm tired
|
| I think you're tired to start with, just go to sleep. I
| realized this with myself and others. Some kind of marketing
| that "unwind and relax" means you have to watch some TV when
| sleep will actually bring you more enjoyment.
|
| You can always trade those 45 minutes when you wake up for a
| movie if you actually want to watch one - and you'll enjoy it
| more.
| TedDoesntTalk wrote:
| Same problem. I've solved it by not watching Netflix unless a
| friend with similar tastes recommends something to me directly.
| I end up not watching much Netflix, which I've found is
| healthier for me anyway. A lot of the "browsing " or watching
| in bed was escapism.
| yreg wrote:
| >But movies and video games I have severe analysis paralysis
| that leads to a lot of browsing and no actual watching or
| playing.
|
| I suffered of this problem as well and I believe I managed to
| solve it.
|
| ## Netflix
|
| - I only open Netflix when I know what I'm going to watch.
|
| - When I don't know what to watch it means I'm not in the mood
| for anything I'm currently planning to watch. So I don't open
| Netflix, I go to YouTube instead.
|
| - When I know what I want to watch (these days I'm binging Mr.
| Robot) I favourite things that catch my interest while using
| the app. This is the only time for new content discovery within
| Netflix.
|
| ## Steam
|
| It might sound ridiculous but I've found that to power through
| I need to approach games like work. I have to dedicate time for
| it - a weekend, or even take a vacation (I found that the time
| around the end of the year works best for me). Since it is
| something I plan, I discuss what to play with my friends and
| make a decision beforehand.
|
| When the vacation comes, I make myself play at least 8 hours a
| day on the same regime as if I was working. After a few days I
| get into it and then I can continue the game in some normal
| occasional schedule as well. I've been able to enjoy the Mass
| Effect games in this way the last winter and Witcher 3 the year
| before that. I don't think I've managed to enjoy a single
| player storytelling game to such extent in the decade before
| that.
|
| I try to avoid opening my 500+ game 80% unplayed Steam library.
| When I don't know what to play, I don't open Steam, I open
| YouTube and watch some let's play instead.
| pph wrote:
| > I only open Netflix when I know what I'm going to watch.
|
| Only to realize that it's not in their library (anymore).
| yreg wrote:
| I'm in EU and this didn't happen to me yet (although I've
| watched Friends while I could).
|
| It sometimes feels like I'm the only netizen who is happy
| with the Netflix catalogue, but to be honest I think they
| have a giant pile of great shows; many more than I have
| time or mood to watch. I believe the issue is that they
| produce an even bigger pile of shows that are utterly shit,
| so if you just play something at random there is a high
| chance of it being low quality. To me that doesn't matter
| much as long as there is enough of the good stuff.
| zamadatix wrote:
| I solved this by simply not using the streaming services as
| my catalog service. Make the list in something all
| encompassing like IMDB so when you pull it up you can
| quickly find what services have your content available
| instead of the other way around. Jumping on Netflix so I
| can find what I want to watch is just backwards. If I have
| a catalog of movies marked watched later and I can't ever
| seem to find any available on <x service> then why would I
| keep an <x service> subscription.
|
| This comes with the bonus that recommendations are based on
| what you have liked across all services not what the
| service has it thinks it can convince you is good enough
| based on only what that service has convinced you to watch
| before. It also keeps your watch history in one place which
| makes referencing easier.
| cmeacham98 wrote:
| If you actually seriously want this: I believe both Android and
| iOS have some method of tracking time spent in apps (assuming
| that's what you mean when you say "Netflix App").
| game-of-throws wrote:
| I have a list of movies/TV shows in a txt file. New entries go
| at the end. I watch them in the order I added them. Zero
| decision fatigue!
| themodelplumber wrote:
| This might seem weird but here's how I leverage this:
|
| - 99% of the time it confirms tiredness. However it's also an
| intriguing moment of interest, built into this time of waning
| energy. And interests are important to seize on, and work with,
| as they develop.
|
| - I want to get the most entertaining result, for the time
| being. The symbol processing part of the mind is back-and-
| forthing with the physical circumstances of exhaustion, so I
| have an opportunity to get the needed result via symbolic
| means.
|
| - I focus only on cover imagery and sort by favorite cover
| images. I let myself decide not to focus on selecting a movie
| to watch for the time being. I'm just browsing covers. This is
| not a time to test the focusing attributes of your mind.
| Instead, the mind is ready to take you for a ride.
|
| - The images start to bring out imaginings or scenarios in the
| mind's eye, which build on and depart from what's strictly in
| the cover image. This is good. You can consider it a lucid,
| pre-dreaming state as well.
|
| - I frontdoor those moments and inner images [1] for rest,
| interest-pursuit, and analysis purposes if desired.
|
| Since I started doing that and got good results, I wrote a cron
| script to randomly select sets of book covers from my Google
| Play Books and Kindle libraries, and I use those the same way.
|
| Another result is that this connection "browse thumbnails" ->
| "watch or read that thing" is less strict or even necessary.
| The covers often don't match the contents anyway, and were not
| typically created by the director or author. So the
| reading/viewing often hits like a disappointment. This isn't to
| say that reading is bad though, and you can do the cover-
| sorting activity above with textual passages from books, or
| clips from movies.
|
| 1. https://www.friendlyskies.net/maybe/frontdooring-a-new-
| form-...
| dxuh wrote:
| Assuming 40 minutes per entry is way off base imho. Most of the
| stuff I watched is sitcoms with 20 minutes per episode each. If
| you are just going to count the lines of the file I "Upload" to
| your website, maybe don't even do it at all. Also why does the
| button say "Upload" and right below it says "Your data is
| processed locally and not sent to any servers.". Upload implies
| precisely that data is being transferred.
|
| It's great that this page informed me about the existence of that
| CSV file though. Thanks for that.
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