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Watch The Movie My Best Friend
Whether you're aiming to have a digital dinner-and-a-movie date with a friend or planning a long-distance date night with someone special, there are several different ways to accomplish it. Below you'll find 10 stellar ways to watch movies together online, broken down by the best ways to use each, whether you're in a long-distance relationship, casually dating via apps and FaceTime, or miss connecting with your cross-country friends.
Teleparty quickly picked up steam as a popular tool that allows for watching movies together online. And, it's simple enough to use: Just download it as a Chrome extension, open a video or show (on Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max, or Amazon Prime), click the "TP" icon in the right hand corner, and share the link with the friends you want to invite in order to get the party started. That party, to be clear, looks like a little chat room on the side of your video window.
Pros: It's a simple and clean interface that's easy to use and is perfect for introverts who spent much of their adolescence in chat rooms (ahem, not that I know from experience). Teleparty is great for watching movies together for sure, but it's perfect if you've been meaning to rewatch all of Community or finally check out the latest season of Stranger Things in a way that lets you share your reactions in real time.
Scener is very similar to Teleparty, but it's a bit more souped up: It allows you to video chat with your friends and keep tabs in a chat room while watching movies together online. It also has a cute and whimsical layout, IMHO.
Cons: It is a little bit buggy, which isn't surprising given that it's still in beta. Developers are currently working out the kinks, but definitely keep Metastream as an option for watching movies online with friends in the future.
Cons: Well, stress on watching companion, no plural. You can only watch with one person at a time. And while I do love me some YouTube, it's kind of rare that I use it as my go-to streaming service for movies.
The best part? The chat box appears on the right of the screen and Teleparty automatically shrinks the video viewer window to accommodate the box. This way, friends can chat without missing any of the action.
A unique feature we love is users can share and synchronize personal video files. According to reviews this has helped teachers show movies in online courses as well as long distance couples rewatch their favorites that are not offered on streaming services.
Twitch Watch Party allows Twitch streamers and users to watch and react to movies and TV shows in real time. For friend groups of current Twitch creators, this is a great way to hang out and create content!
Discord Live Streaming or Go Live is a free way for Discord users and friend groups to connect and live stream their screens. This is a great way to share videos, movies, and TV shows from any streaming platform with your friends!
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That's where the watch party apps and services below come in. Each of them lets you sync up a movie or TV show to watch with someone else, so it doesn't matter how far apart you are in real life. We'll show you how to use each of them to get movie night back on track.
The first point to mention is that everyone watching the movie needs an active subscription to whatever streaming service it's on. If you're hoping to watch Netflix together, you each need to have an active Netflix subscription.
Many of these services only work on a computer, and many of them only work with the Google Chrome browser. If you planned to watch a movie on your TV, you should work out how to cast your computer to your TV before getting started. That said, some platform specific services, like Disney+ GroupWatch, work anywhere you can use the app.
Once you get up and running, most of these services let you talk to your friends in a chatroom at the edge of the screen. You can usually minimize this if you want to focus on the movie, but you might miss out on some hilarious running commentary if you do. Some of the options even let you start a video chat while watching the movie.
Originally known as Netflix Party, Teleparty allows you to load a movie on Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max, Amazon Prime, or YouTube and create a party link to share with your friends. When they join, Teleparty syncs the movie for everyone and lets you chat with each other in the sidebar.
Up to 1,000 people can use Teleparty to watch the same movie together. All you need to do to create your own watch party is install the free browser extension in Google Chrome, Edge, or Opera. You can also install the Teleparty app on Android devices. After adding the extension, just find a movie, click the extension to create a watch party, and share your link.
If you prefer to avoid third-party apps and extensions, you can use Amazon Prime Video's Watch Party feature to watch movies together instead. The Watch Party feature is available in the Prime Video app on Android, iOS, and Fire TV devices. Amazon Watch Party doesn't work with Safari or Internet Explorer, though it does work with other browsers.
Watch Party lets you sync movies and chat with up to 100 friends at once and works with any content available on Prime Video. However, if you want to watch a movie that's available to buy or rent, every participant will need to buy or rent that content individually.
To start an Amazon Prime Watch Party, find the movie you want to watch and use the Watch Party button in the description. Choose a name to use in the chatroom, invite your friends or share the link, and then hit play.
Hulu also offers a built-in Watch Party feature that lets you watch a movie together with up to eight friends online. Once again, this Watch Party only works in supported computer browsers, which includes Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge.
To start a Hulu Watch Party, find the movie you want to watch and click the Watch Party icon in the details section. It looks like three people with a play symbol on them. Then use the link icon to copy and share the Watch Party link with your friends.
If everybody has an Apple device, you can use the SharePlay feature in FaceTime to watch movies and TV shows together across various different apps. SharePlay is compatible with Apple TV+, Disney+, Hulu, Paramount+, HBO Max, and more. However, Apple's SharePlay doesn't work with Netflix or Amazon Prime Video.
Scener is another way to watch shows and movies together online, and it's a great option if you don't want to tie yourself down to a single video streaming service. With Scener, you and your friends can watch a movie together from the following streaming services:
All you need to do is install the Scener extension for Google Chrome, find the movie you want to watch on the service of your choice, then use Scener to start hosting a watch party. A private room lets you sync the movie and text chat with up to 10 friends. To unlock video and audio chat, you'll need to subscribe to Scener Premium.
This is a web app that lets you watch movies together online across a range of services. There's no limit to the number of people who can join a watch party in twoseven, and you can even let everyone use their own webcam and microphone while they're watching.
Visit the twoseven website to create an account, then create a watch party and share the URL to as many friends as you like. Depending on the streaming service you want to use, you may need to install the twoseven extension for Chrome or Firefox.
Kast offers a selection of independent movies alongside mainstream films available through Tubi. Everything is available for free if you're willing to watch a few adverts. Or you can sign up to Kast Premium and get rid of the ads entirely.
Syncplay is an open-source app that you can use to sync media players like VLC on your computer. That means you can use Syncplay to watch your locally saved movies at the same time as your friends, although you need to make sure you each have the same file downloaded to keep everything in sync. 2ff7e9595c
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