Netflix is launching a caller characteristic called “Moments” that lets you prevention and stock bookmarks to a circumstantial spot successful a show aliases movie. The characteristic seems for illustration it could beryllium a very useful measurement to stock parts of thing you’re watching pinch friends aliases connected societal media.
To seizure a moment, pat connected the surface while you’re watching thing connected Netflix to spot the various paper options, past pat connected the caller “Moments” fastener to popular up a caller menu, and past pat the prevention button. From the Moments menu, you tin besides spot different Moments you’ve saved for that show aliases movie and stock Moments to various apps. You tin besides transcript a nexus to the Moment to your clipboard.
Netflix gave maine early entree to the feature, truthful I utilized it to make a infinitesimal of the champion segment successful Lost — spoiler warning, evidently — which is possibly the most Jay Peters point to do.
It’s each beautiful easy to use, and I deliberation a batch of group are going to beryllium sharing links to their favourite scenes pinch their group chats aliases to their societal networks. I could besides spot Moments being wide utilized arsenic a individual bookmarking tool. Instead of scouring YouTube to find the nonstop clip of a definite infinitesimal successful a show you want to rewatch, you could conscionable watch it from your individual room of saved clips.
If you do extremity up being a predominant personification of Moments, it sounds for illustration you astir apt won’t person to interest astir having excessively galore of them. “The number of Moments you tin prevention depends connected the magnitude of the content,” spokesperson Dorian Rosenburg tells The Verge. “However, there’s plentifulness of abstraction to prevention your favourite Moments, truthful astir members won’t request to interest astir a limit erstwhile it comes to redeeming crossed aggregate shows and movies.”
The expertise to make Moments is launching globally connected iOS today, and it will get successful the “coming weeks” connected Android. Netflix presently doesn’t person plans to bring the characteristic to the web aliases TVs, Rosenburg says. But successful its blog station astir the news, Netflix says that “Moments will hopefully grow successful the future, offering moreover much ways for members to usage and bask the feature.”