After Backlash, Netflix Won't Offer Variable Play Times 'In the Short Term'

Several creators call changing playback speed 'a terrible idea'

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Netflix has no immediate plans to widely roll out a tool that would allow subscribers to watch programming at faster or slower speeds, one day after it faced a barrage of criticism from directors who said the tool would negatively affect their work.

The tool, which Netflix introduced as a mobile-only test, gave users the ability to change the speed at which they watched programming, either slowing it down as much as half-speed or speeding it up as much as 1.5

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