Can You Host a Netflix Watch Party for Friends and Family? Here's All You Need to Know
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The amount of joy that the modern-day audience has started to accumulate from one single streaming platform (alright, it is a giant) is a case to be put under the microscope. From delights such as downloading and watching on the go, curating lists of what-to-watch, sharing profiles with friends and exchanging cryptic messages through user names, and also having fun with friends and family? That might need to be reassessed. With an increasingly screen-oriented daily routine that is being developed, it is only natural for one to try to accommodate even their loved one onto the glowing screen.
So is it also possible to watch a movie with your family through the light pulses that travel the air?
Netflix family (repellent?)
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Netflix, apart from sharing profiles and passwords with your friends, is not exactly 'family friendly' for that matter. Meaning that hosting watch parties across screens at the same time is currently not possible on the platform. While hosting Netflix parties is for sure a concept, it requires one strictly be in the same room as your partners in crime to be able to. But when you are not, this is where it gets complicated. Netflix holds no in-app features that allow viewers to actually hold a virtual party.
With that established, there is also the curiosity of where this idea actually stems from, and found guilty is the third party app: Teleparty, for example. Allowing for Netflix to be linked onto it and then view the movie at the same time as if it were a private YouTube live video, and a call session combined, even a video call if you may, while the movie of choice plays on all screens, across cities and states, at the same time, as if it were a movie hall. All with a few simple taps and a few uncomplicated links, viola!
With this easy of a way out of overwhelming social gatherings, as it would be for homebodies, Teleparty might be the new concept of a knight in shining armor for many a watch-sel in de-stress.
Partying on the line : Teleparty
Formerly known as Netflix Party: Teleparty, to be defined in the most textbook of languages, is an extension that allows more than one screen to be streaming at the same time. Gaining traction during the pandemic of 2020, which ensued the months-long lockdown, it became the best way to connect with friends and families estranged, sometimes across continents. Teleparty has, as of late, become a staple and easy way out to lazy pre-date nights or a long delayed friends' meet up's last resort.
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HOLLYWOOD, CA – JULY 14: General views of the Netflix Hollywood campus on Vine amid the historic joint WGA & SAG-AFTRA writers and actors strike on July 14, 2023 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)
Third-party apps have revolutionized the streaming scene with their remote-lifestyle accommodative blueprint, which only sets the imagination free for what could ensue once the feature steps down on the official streaming giant itself. Netflix could be turned into a whole new world of virtual connectivism once it tackles its cheeky "busy screen" alerts, that is.
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Are you someone who enjoys binge-watching shows and movies with friends and families? Let us know what you do in the comments below!
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Edited By: Itti Mahajan
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