Netflix held its latest Hack Day recently, giving the company’s employees some space to build new projects that reimagine the way we interact with the streaming video service. The company’s been holding Netflix Hack Days for years, and while teams of engineers have come up with some really cool ideas, the goal is really to […]
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Netflix Hack Day projects include VR experience, phone-as-headphones projects
Netflix Hack Days are opportunities for developers at the video streaming service to come up with some new ways to interact with Netflix. Some previous projects have included a hack to run Netflix on a Nintendo Entertainment System and another to limit bandwidth usage over 3G networks. Now Netflix is showing off a few projects from […]
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Netflix engineers create Smart Channels, 3G-optimized streaming for Hack Day projects
Netflix holds occasional hack days, where the company’s engineers spend some time building odd (and sometimes pretty useful looking) projects around the streaming video service. Earlier this year we saw one team figure out how to get Netflix to run on a classic NES game console. The company held another Hack Day recently, and this […]
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Netflix hack brings (crappy) videos to Nintendo Enterainment System
Every now and again Netflix hosts a hack day, where developers at the company whip up tools that will pause a video when you fall asleep, let you password-protect your user profile, or create custom playlists. The company held the latest Netflix Hack Day in the first week of March and one team got Netflix to […]