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Re:The Case of the Extra 40ms by throwaway2245 on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @01:06PM (#25432994)
> Unacceptably high latency for any sort of seek operation - even if it's just going back a few seconds to what you just watched and ought to still be somewhere in a local buffer.

Unacceptable for what use-case? I had assumed this was somewhat intentional on Netflix's part, or at least not a priority for them.

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Re:The Case of the Extra 40ms by seba_dos1 on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @09:21PM (#25438250)
For the use case of watching a movie?

You seek back a scene or two while watching something when your mind has wandered away and you missed what was going on a few seconds ago. For some non-neurotypical people it's a really common thing to do while watching a longer movie as it may be hard to follow what's going on otherwise.

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