Watching series or movies on a streaming service like Netflix is usually a solitary experience, and I know many prefer it that way. However, there are different tools that let us share over the internet what we are enjoying with friends and family. A couple of months ago, Edgardo told us about Netflix Party, and today it's Rabbit's turn, which is based on creating videochat rooms that anyone can join.
The demand for online video is growing steadily, and providers try their best to respond, but they are making a critical mistake. The official response has been to fragment the market, launching one new platform after another. That forces users to subscribe to multiple services, which besides costing a fortune, becomes tedious in no time. The alternative is to share those streams with friends and family on the web. If each person has access to a different service, it's possible to fill the gaps and have a good time via chat or microphone. That's how we get to Rabbit:
How to share Netflix and other streams with Rabbit
Creating a Rabbit account takes a few seconds, though you can always use Facebook or Google credentials. Once inside, you'll see a wide list of public rooms with open content. Users share everything, from isolated anime episodes to news broadcasts. The option to create your own room is in your profile, where you'll decide whether it's a public or private stream. Rabbit supports saving login information for Netflix, Hulu, and Crunchyroll, so subsequent logins will be much faster.
Rabbit offers two additional resources. On one hand, we have apps for iOS and Android, and on the other, there's a Chrome-compatible extension that essentially works like a TeamViewer or a 'fake Chromecast' transmitting the content of our browser. However, users report multiple latency issues and synchronization loss, so we recommend using Rabbit directly from the web page, which works smoothly.
