# Experiences with online remote streaming parties?

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**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
**Tags:** covid-quarantine\
**Created:** [March 30, 2020, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiences-with-online-remote-streaming-parties/850676 "2020-03-30T16:51:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiences-with-online-remote-streaming-parties/850676/1 "2020-03-30T16:51:38Z")

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I’ve been reading about people dealing with social isolation by engaging in online streaming parties, in which one person can stream a video from Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, etc., and share the screen with remote friends, who can participate with voice, video, and text chat.

I am trying out some of these and haven’t been completely successful yet in pulling this off. I tried Netflix Party ([https://www.netflixparty.com/](https://www.netflixparty.com/)), which only allows viewing of Netflix videos (and also doesn’t apparently share audio and video from participants). I’m also trying TwoSeven ([https://twoseven.xyz/](https://twoseven.xyz/)). I’ve gotten the audio/video/chat feature to work, but haven’t quite figured out how to make the streaming work properly.

I would like to be able to use a service that allows streaming of both Netflix and Amazon, because I have some purchased content on Amazon I want to use for a streaming party.

Any other experiences, suggestions, advice?

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**Author:** ![Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/do_not_taunt/32/2968_2.png) [@Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Do_Not_Taunt)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiences-with-online-remote-streaming-parties/850676/2 "2020-03-30T17:24:16Z")

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My experience with Netflix Party is this: good idea, but it requires that you use a chrome plugin, so it’s not going to work on a roku or other similar dedicated streaming device, and its synchronization can be off by a few seconds, so you definitely lose some of the “all watching at the same time” effect. I haven’t tried TwoSeven.

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**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiences-with-online-remote-streaming-parties/850676/3 "2020-04-18T14:15:02Z")

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I didn’t like Netflix Party, because (so far as I can tell) you can stream a Netflix item together, but the chat only has text, no audio/video.

Twoseven I’ve been able to use successfully with YouTube videos. Once you’ve got it working, it has a pretty nice setup for audio/video/chat interaction.

I haven’t yet been able to successfully use it for Netflix or Amazon, which both require sign-ins from everyone in the room.

Does anyone know whether a DVD can be shared in an online party?

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**Author:** ![Bert\_Nobbins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@Bert\_Nobbins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bert_Nobbins)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2020, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiences-with-online-remote-streaming-parties/850676/4 "2020-04-19T15:20:09Z")

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