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Time: 2016-06-08 17:34:00 UTC

Original URL: http://www.cnet.com/news/netflix-binge-watching-scale-rates-your-consumption-speed-as-savor-or-devour/#ftag=CAD590a51e [cnet.com]

Title: Savor or devour: New binge-watching scale rates your Netflix consumption speed - CNET

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Savor or devour: New binge-watching scale rates your Netflix consumption speed - CNET

Watch more than two hours of "Orange is the New Black [tvguide.com]" in a single night? You're devouring it. Watch just an episode or two of "Fuller House [tvguide.com]?" You, my couch potato friend, are savoring.

That's the scale on which Netflix now judges how its audience is consuming its content. The company's newly announced Binge Scale [netflix.com] shows how members watch a series in either a slow progression or an all out marathon.

Netflix examined over 100 TV series on a global level and figured out how long it takes for a viewer to finish a whole run. The company found that series that tend towards the thriller side of the genre scale -- say, "Breaking Bad [tvguide.com] "-- make it harder to stop watching (devour). But more deliberative dramas like "Mad Men [tvguide.com]" have us watching at a slower pace (savor).

So next time you sit down to watch a series, will you savor or devour?

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