If it’s taking too much time for you to binge that entire season of Quicksand in one weekend, then good news — Netflix is testing an option to allow users play episodes faster.
The company is testing a playback rate option on its own Android app. Consumers on Twitter have been mentioning the feature for several weeks, but it seems to be part of a limited rollout test.
When Seeing articles on Netflix, a few Android users have a Speed alternative on the video playback menu, next to the Subtitles & Audio menu. In the Speed menu, there are options to decrease the rate to 0.5x or 0.75x, an choice to set playback to normal (1x speed), or choices to set the rate to 1.25x or 1.5x.
Adjustable playback speed is a popular option in podcast players and audiobook software, Where people speed up content to obey it. Doing exactly the identical thing with video content is rather jarring, but the purpose made its way to programs like YouTube.
There’s no info yet on if or Every time a full rollout will happen, or whether the feature will be Coming to other programs.
