{"id":289642,"date":"2018-12-13T16:53:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T14:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=289642"},"modified":"2018-12-13T16:55:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T14:55:16","slug":"netflix-testing-instant-replay-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/289642-netflix-testing-instant-replay-feature.html","title":{"rendered":"Netflix testing instant replay feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix is testing an instant replay feature which would offer viewers the opportunity to replay a scene, the company told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/hollywood\/la-fi-ct-netflix-scene-rewatch-20181212-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>LA Times<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The feature will allow users to pause a movie or TV show and re-watch a scene at the touch of a button.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, this instant replay functionality is currently only available within certain Netflix content, and presents viewers with a prompt to rewatch a memorable scene.<\/p>\n<p>The company added that this feature is currently in testing and it may not be rolled out in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Certain viewers have expressed frustration at the sudden appearance of &#8220;watch that scene again&#8221; pop-ups however, taking to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/scottrenshaw\/status\/1072350499700125697\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>social media<\/strong><\/a> to vent their feelings.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/289610-netflix-gift-cards-for-south-africa-are-nowhere-to-be-seen.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Netflix gift cards for South Africa are nowhere to be seen<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix is testing an instant replay feature which would offer viewers the opportunity to replay a scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":272195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[56292,2054,56294,2924],"class_list":["post-289642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-instant-replay","tag-netflix","tag-scene","tag-streaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289646,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289642\/revisions\/289646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}