I now watch all movies and shows on 1.5 times speed
 

Ever since I discovered the 1.5 x speed on videos, I can no longer watch movies/tv shows at their normal speed anymore. It saves you so much time too!

A 2 hour movie becomes a 1 hour and 30 minute movie. If you use 2x speed during the silent scenes where characters are just walking around not doing anything, you can speed through a movie even more than make it about a 1 hour and 15 minute movie.

The funny thing is even playing things at 1.5 speed you can still easily understand everything the characters are saying, and you don't notice a difference when the scenes are playing. You can save so much time if you want to marathon shows or movies this way. Anyone else do this?

But if you're just going to fast-forward through everything what's the point of even watching things if you're not going to do it the way the creators intended?

Why not just read plot summaries on Wikipedia or Cliff Notes or something?

1.5 isn't fast forwarding, it's barely moving at a faction of a second more than usual. You can test it right now on youtube videos. Change the speed to any youtube video to 1.5 speed, you barely notice a difference.

I sometimes like watching the 80s tmnt show on 1.5x speed during the fight scenes. Makes them much smoother and quicker.

You really are something Cubed.

It works wonderfully. It saves you so much time too. If you're marathoning through a show with hundreds of eps, you get through it in half the time.

If you're gonna watch something like Blade Runner 2049 in 1,5x speed, you'll definitely miss everything that makes the movie a masterpiece.

Wouldn't it be three fourths of the time?

No you don't. Stop it.

I just started doing this around early this year. Often times when I watched movies or shows, I remember thinking, "Man this scene is so slow, I wish there was some way to get through it faster without literally skipping through it." Then I realized you can play on 1.5 speed, and do exactly that.

Don't you guys ever watch scenes in movies/shows that you feel are too slow paced, or you feel kinda bored sitting through parts of an episode and wish it went by fast? Simply change the speed to 1.5. That means you're only watching on 1 second and 1/2 faster than usual, so you won't even notice the difference much. The characters talking don't even sound speeded up.

And if you play it like this through a whole show, you shave off 20-30 minutes of movies and at least 15-20 minutes of regular 1 hour shows.

If something is boring me that much I just won't bother watching it, or if I'm really set on finishing a series I will play around on my phone or in another tab in my browser

Geez, and I thought PAL speed was bad. :o

Are you just watching bad movies? :lol:

remind me never to watch movies with Cube

Nah, there's slow parts in every movie or show I ever watched, even stuff I liked. Browsing the internet while watching is even worse because you're not paying attention to it.

1.5 speed let's you sit through the slow parts and still not miss anything.

I've turned 2 hour and 30 minute movies into 1 hour and 40 minute movies. I have so much more free time now to either watch more stuff or do anything else.

You probably don't go to the movie theaters much now then.

Each persons choice.

For new movies of course there's no choice, but whenever I own a blu-ray or just watch it online, the 1.5 speed feature works wonders.

I even watch regular youtube clips on 1.5 speed now.

I recently listened to an audio book at 1.23x speed on VLC, but it was Anne of Green Gables and all of Anne's lengthy rambles just seemed more accurate at 1.23x.

That sounds so awful, why would you do that?
Well besides to annually watch all your TMNT, Batman and Pokemon shows.:lol:

I don't do it on tv shows, I feel it would compromise them but I do it on podcasts that I find a little too long or when I'm falling behind but I prefer not to when I can.

1.2 is the sweet point IMO, at 1.2 it's not noticeable too much besides a few places and the voices still sound for the most part normal, though there's still distortion and does make the shows go a bit faster. 1.1 you can barely notice though it also doesn't save much time.

1.5 makes them sound like chipmunks, it's awful, I only use it if I'm super behind on podcasts and on shows I don't care much about but want to soak up the information as fast as possible. 1.6 being almost the same with it being a little bit faster. So yeah, it works great in catching up since you can easily understand everything but go faster but at the expense of having Chip/Dale as your hosts.

2.0 speed is almost useless to me, you can only do it if you don't care to listen to everything that's being said because I end up missing some information if they're talking about something important that needs my full attention. If it's just random chatter then it's doable, of course here they're all on full chipmunk mode.

sdp you said in the other thread you want to catch up on some DC shows, watch them all on 1.5 speed, you'll get through them in half the time. It's probably better that way too, you'll never get bored because each ep will be shortened by about 15 minutes. :lol:

:lol:

Is that how you're going to begin converting people to 1.5?

I can't do it, I'd rather wait a few months until I have time, I don't think I would enjoy the show that way. I can't even do 1.5 on podcasts consistently and a lot of that is just day to day news fodder that is only meant to be information taken in and not really "to enjoy". If I'm going to watch those mediocre DC shows then dammit, I will do it with my "full attention".


I say "full attention" because the only way I can marathon shows is if I'm also working on something else on my laptop at the same time. It's not great since my productivity lowers exponentially and/or I miss details from the show (like bradford's second death) which I missed.

Truest the only way to enjoy a film is .25 x just really let the film sink in as you lose your sanity

Actually, would it be 2/3's the time? Cause wouldn't it be that you would take an hour and a half long movie divided by 1.5. So you would take 90 minutes X 2/3 and you get 60? I don't know, is anyone here a math teacher?

Whoops, you're right.

If I have a 60 mile drive and I go 60 mph I'll get there in one hour. If I go 90 mph I'll get there in 40 minutes.

I had to think about it in terms of driving to make sense of it

I just watched a 1 hour and 46 minute movie in a grand total of 1 hour and 2 minutes. That means I saved myself 44 minutes just by watching at 1.5 speed for the regular span of the movie, and sometimes switching to 2.0 speed during the silent scenes with no dialogue when the characters were just walking around or staring at computer screens or sitting around.

44 minutes of FREE TIME that you can use to either watch something else or do whatever. I can't believe I didn't think of this to this year, I can now marathon double the amount of shows or movies in half the time.

What a time to be alive.

Cubed you could also use caffeine pills to stay up all night, that would be a whole EIGHT to TEN HOURS OF FREE TIME TO WATCH MORE MOVIES!!!

I wish your life would go 1.5 times speed.

being in this man's mind must be some kind of drug

In all seriousness since the beginning of 2017, I literally watched through nearly 300-400 movies, and a bunch of TV shows, just by watching at 1.5 speed.

And it's not like I'm spending all my free time doing this either, only a couple hours a day. You'll be surprised how much media you can consume like this.

Do you sleep? :lol:

Seriously though, you obviously love your movies and shows, if that doesn't ruin them for you then that's for you.
I't not something I can imagine would appeal to me :)

Online streaming media has worked wonders. Back in the day you had to fidget with VHS or DVDs or whatever, or watch a show at a certain time on TV with commercials.

In the modern year of 2017, you don't have to do any of that anymore. And as I said, if you want to marathon a show that went on for many seasons or has hundreds of episodes....it's a great way to watch through a show quickly.

I mean just think about all the shows or movies you've watched in the past. Thinking about rewatching them is no small feat, especially if you're a fan of dozens of shows and hundreds of movies...you need to make the free time to watch them all. So rather than simply skipping them or not, 1.5 speed work wonders.

I still watch live TV for new series when I don't grab on catch-up.

One of my favourites is in it's 13th season, which would be a big marathon but still, I can spread it out, should I ever re-visit when it finishes.

I went down the dark path and tried watching a movie in 1.5 speed, here are my impressions:

*It works decently well for the most part, much better and natural than I would've thought.

* Voices are distorted a bit but not as much as 1.5 speed podcasts for some odd reason.

*The best improvement is repetitive scenes or when they're doing something "slow" you really get the benefit

*The worst part is action scenes and when "fast" stuff happens since you don't get to appreciate it, especially in a fight scene.

*Comedy is sometimes improved by having the obvious punchline delivered quicker and sometimes against it when it's more subtle comedy.


In podcasting for me 1.2 speed is the sweet spot since it saves you time but the voices still sound natural, gets rid of the silent parts and you can get all the information without any problem while 1.5 you need to pay a little more attention since it goes faster. It's natural and you only really notice the extra speed in a few segments. In 1.5 you definitely notice it.

So maybe I'll try 1.2 speed in a movie next, still I think it's blasphemous to do it on something that's not a podcast and feel like I've sinned. My question is, is it better to just watch a movie at 1.5 speed or multi task and watch a movie on normal speed while browsing the web/work which is what I usually do and I end up missing more than just a few scenes here and there.

As I said, after a while you don't notice a difference and don't really tell the characters are speaking faster. During action scenes or fight scenes, I do slow down the speed to 1.25 or normal speed during Jackie Chan or martial arts scenes...because as said action scenes go by too fast and you actually want to see the martial arts.

But when characters are just standing around talking or nothing is going on, I have to have it at 1.5 speed. Last night I watched a 2 hour movie in 1 hour and 32 minutes. I just saved myself some time.

I gave this a shot but I could totally tell; everything felt off. Maybe it would be better with a different media player but I probably won't try it again

#NotForMe

I watch a lot of shows at 2x speed. My mind tends to wander watching the DC CW shows a regular speed but sped up I don't have that problem. My favorite shows I watch normally. I think listening to podcasts at that speed is what got me used to it.

2x is too fast, I can only do that during silent scenes where characters are just walking down a slow hallway or something.

1.5x speed you can understand their lines perfectly, I don't even notice a difference. I do slow the speed to 1.25 during action or fight scenes though because I like to see what's going on.

If you ever want to marathon shows with hundreds of episodes or seasons, this is a great way to do it.

I love you Cybercubed.

I do this sometimes too. Doesn't always work, but is sometimes pretty handy.

I notice it doesn't work as well with animation. Like with cartoons/anime. I guess because they're hand drawn and weren't made to watched sped up, it only works with live-action.