Pro tip: maybe don’t invite “that guy” to Watch Together with you. Before you ask, yes, “that guy” can ruin it for everyone. Anyone watching with you can play, pause, or seek around during the session. No more “okay pressing play in 3, 2, 1…” or suffering through the third act in desperate need of a bathroom break. Per the announcement here’s how Watch Together works: PLEX: Watch Togetherįind a movie or episode you want to watch together, invite your friends on Plex (or even invite them to join Plex), and let us handle keeping playback in sync for everyone. It’s called “Watch Together” and as the name implies it allows you and your friends and family to enjoy a virtually movie night. Now, Plex has announced a cute pandemic-era feature. Icing on the cake: I can even access this content remotely when travelling (far from the most needed thing in the world currently). With Plex I can stream them to almost any device in the house, be it an iPad, Android phone or an NVIDIA Shield for watching movies on the big screen. Like many I have a small RAID server that hosts media including movies (ripped from discs that I own), music and workout videos - plus about 16 years of raw Stark Insider video footage. For that feature alone.Plex continues to endear itself as a media streaming platform. Plex was my backup, but the watch together has pushed it ahead currently. I'm waiting for this as I rather Emby for a number of reasons. Being able to catch up or watch stuff together to chill without the risks of curfew or whatever makes the feature nice. After the pandemic a lot of people have more time on their hands. The main reason - before the pandemic - was to watch stuff with said friends and family when we all have time. Watching an old show together where its in sync and anyone can pause to then say they going bathroom or something makes it easy for everyone to be on the same page. We use WhatsApp/Telegram/Messenger to keep in touch. So I'm just wondering how/when you would use this and what other communication you have going with other friends/family while watching.įriends and family in different parts of the world. I know the last season of GOT my family watched it together "live" while doing a video conference which was kind of cool. When watching synced were you also doing a phone or video conference? Just wondering what compelled you to watch things together? Have you tried it? What do you think about it? Just curious for those who also have Plex. I guess with the lockdowns and theater closings this "seems" very needed but I really doubt it would really get much use after the novelty phase wears off. To me watching something with others is only of value if they are present. It could be, I guess, of value to heavy social media users or to people that like to talk over movies or shows but I see little value beyond that. Plex made the decision to implement "Watch Together" but I think they did it for the advertising value and not because there was much of any real demand for it. There are many other things I would like to see implemented WAY before fancy features like this. Even just the ability to resume an audiobook should be extended to all clients. I understand that Emby's developer time is pretty limited and I would much rather see other things, like audiobook support, be fully implemented. That would be a tiny benefit and really get used only when my granddaughters visit. While this would be (and is for Plex) a very flashy feature I suspect strongly that it is only a VERY tiny minority that would take advantage of it.įor me the only benefit I see would be if I wanted to have the same thing playing on more than one TV in my home. Hi, yes this is something we're very interested in.
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