I take advantage of YouTube Premium greater than another streaming service, which implies there are particular nice options of YouTube that I miss once I use different streaming providers. Particularly, I hope that Netflix will copy these 5 superior YouTube options.

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Episode and Film Chapters

I needed to double- and triple-check that Netflix would not have already got this characteristic—as a result of absolutely it is apparent, however not like YouTube (and DVD’s from the 90s!) Netflix would not supply chapters. You get to skip forward ten seconds at a time, or scrub by the timeline.

Additionally, I suppose, the choice to skip intros and credit additionally counts as sort-of chapter skips, however I actually want I might bounce to named chapters in reveals and flicks. Particularly in non-fiction content material like documentaries.

4

Person-Generated Playlists

Whereas it is all the time been doable to create your individual watchlist on Netflix, YouTube helps you to create playlists after which share them publicly for different folks to seek out. For instance, if I search for traditional sci-fi playlists on YouTube, I get these outcomes.

It permits me to profit from the effort and time put in by different YouTube customers, which is an incredible method for me to find content material that I’d by no means have scraped collectively by the conventional search path.

Now, think about if somebody might do that on Netflix. What if I wished to observe an anime with all of the filler eliminated, or if I wished to observe a sure film sequence in chronological order by way of the plot as an alternative of so as of launch? I would love curated style lists which might be community-voted as properly.

Possibly this takes an excessive amount of management away from the omnipotent Netflix algorithm, however it might make me extra prone to spend time on Netflix to see what folks have put collectively.

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Seeing Most Watched Segments of Films and Exhibits

YouTube has a cool characteristic the place some movies will present a graph the place you may see which components of that video are essentially the most watched. The components folks skip to, and watch over and over.

If we had that on Netflix, it might be an superior strategy to see what components of a program are essentially the most attention-grabbing for no matter cause. Netflix already has the “Moments” characteristic the place you may clip and share components of packages you want. With a “most watched section” characteristic, you’d know what different folks had been clipping for his or her social feeds.

OK, possibly this is not the highest-priority of characteristic requests, however I do know Netflix already collects all this information for us, so why not share a bit to present us some perception into the reveals we watch?

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Trying to find Scenes or Traces

Google is, after all, identified for its search expertise—and YouTube advantages totally. I am unable to affirm whether or not YouTube searches the content material of subtitles or machine transcriptions to seek out content material in movies, however in my expertise with looking for issues on YouTube, the search outcomes are fairly nuanced.

I would prefer it if Netflix included scenes or dialog within the search outcomes. That may make it simpler to discover a scene the place you do not keep in mind precisely which episode it was in or the place. It might additionally make it simpler to trace down which reveals a clip you noticed on social media got here from.

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Ambient Mode

I like watching previous Star Trek episodes on Netflix (sure we nonetheless get them over right here, no Paramount app but) and the vast majority of these reveals aren’t in widescreen format, however as an alternative in 4:3 side ratio. Because of this you get two black pillars on the perimeters of the display screen. Not the top of the world, proper? Nonetheless, I am all the time paranoid that watching content material with black bars is dangerous for my OLED TV, so I attempt to alternate. Not precisely the recipe for binging a present.

On YouTube, there’s one thing known as “Ambient Mode” which simulates what these ambient backlights do for TVs by filling the black components of the body with a coloration gradient that matches the present film body. I like this impact total, because it makes the video really feel extra immersive, however it might have the blissful aspect impact of decreasing the possibilities of strong strains burning into my TV. Sadly, even YouTube solely gives this on Android and iOS gadgets in full-screen mode, so it is a case the place I would like YouTube to use its personal characteristic to its TV streaming app too!

Sure, I do know that fashionable OLEDs are a lot much less liable to burn-in, however it might make me really feel higher if nothing else, and I do just like the impact in its personal proper.

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If we’ll have a bunch of various streaming providers with fragmented libraries, the least they’ll do is compete with one another on options and quality-of-life enhancements. YouTube is actually the streaming equal of neighborhood TV channels, so actually it should not have higher concepts than “premium” providers, proper? So Netflix, let’s have a couple of of these good extras when you please.