Why Do People Do This?
That’s a lot of time saved if you’re on YouTube and trying to learn something efficiently.
A story has literal beats in real-time as you watch it.
The same goes for actual dialogue, which can also become hard to understand when sped up.
As if theplague of inaudible dialoguewasn’t bad enough!
It’s even worse than leavingmotion smoothingon!
Even worse, the movement of characters and the physics of objects all look wrong.
It’s cheesy and a little disconcerting.
I’ll let you in on a secretit’s OK not to see everything.
First, this only works on the Netflix web player, and iOS and Android apps.
At least it didn’t for me.
You’ll see a set of controls at the bottom of the screen.
Select this icon that looks like a speedometer.
Also, it says “speed” on it too, which is another strong clue.
Now you should see this slider, letting you tune the playback speed from 0.5x to 1.5x.
I take back what I said about never watching a movie at 1.5x.
If you want to watchThe Irishmanin two hours and twenty minutes instead of three-and-a-half hours, be my guest.
That’s the one time it makes complete sense.
