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Re:Facebook is wrong, text is deathless by mrob on Saturday June 18, 2016 @04:46AM (#11927621)
Television is always slow paced, because it has to be comprehensible to people with a wide variety of language skills. Youtube, and most other video player software, has a speed setting with pitch correction. I watch everything at 1.5x speed which brings standard TV slow pacing up to natural fast-paced conversation speed. The majority of people here should have no problems understanding 1.5x speed. I don't watch live TV because 1x speed is too annoyingly slow.
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Re:Facebook is wrong, text is deathless by collinmanderson on Saturday June 18, 2016 @02:48PM (#11930017)
I use 2x speed for YouTube videos. It takes some practice, but you can generally pick up almost all of what was said.

Other <video> elements can be sped up entering this into the javascript console:

document.querySelector('video').playbackRate = 2

(There are also browser extensions that can do the same thing.)

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