This is exactly what I was thinking --- is it really that helpful to see a long list of what your friend watched? I think being able to live chat/talk/connect DURING or before/after an actual show would be much more "social".

I've never tried co-watch. Can you enlighten me with your past experience with that? Presumably, it's great for watching live events. For watching a TV or movies, how would that be practical? Can you only watch together with your friends or you can do that with random people?

Why would you want to do it with random people?

My family does a sort of "ghetto co-watching" all the time, where they'll phone somebody up and say, "Hey, want to watch Foo? OK, start it playing … now!" I know lots of people who do that sort of thing. That's who co-watching is for — people who want to watch something together but not necessarily make a trip to somebody's house.

My SO and I would do that fairly constantly with a few TV shows when I was living across the country. Making that trip every week for an hour of TV and talking was getting expensive :)

I don't think you could pair with random users, it was party based like XBL games.

This is exactly what I was hoping for when reading this title... but of course it's just the tired "share this on Facebook" feature that Netflix had for a minute a few years ago and every non-VPPA-affected site has had for years. When will companies start getting more creative with social?

YES! This is what I wish for all the time, especially for the long-distance relationship. :-)

The Xbox version lost that capability with an update a few years ago, unfortunately. I think that's a bad sign for it getting a wider release.

That would be really awesome. It remindes me of Wahwah, an iPhone app that lets you listen to music with other people.

And a Rifftrax plugin ;)