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Serious question - what's your reason for using? I can understand long distance relationship, but outside of that I don't get this as anything more than an edge case feature (post-COVID).
Genuinely curious - anykind of feature removal sucks, but just wondering how people use this now.
Nice when watching this with friends that are somewhere else, or even when someone is in another room and you only have small screens so it’s better to have only 1 person in front of each. (+ call at the same time to react etc..)
I mean there are many uses for this… a lot of people screen share themselves watching movies or series, even videos
My wife has a friend that moved away a few years ago. We set aside one day a month to watch really bad movies, MST3K style, with them online. This feature keeps us in sync so that we are watching the same thing at the same time. Without it, that becomes a lot harder, especially when you throw in things like pausing for bathroom breaks.
I know a truck driver who watches stuff with his family occasionally using a feature like this (don't know if it's Plex or some similar offering elsewhere).
Oh I have friends and family littered all over the country that I keep in regular contact with. We will do watch parties for series as new episodes air, or just decide to watch something together on a whim.
If it's just me and one other person, we may hop on a video call and talk about it as it plays.
It's just kind of nice having everyone be on the same page.
Similar to long distance, I used it with my wife while I was COVID isolating.