Optimal Netflix viewing? With these tips you are more comfortable in front of the tube | Tech

The competition among streaming services is currently fierce. And since the arrival of Amazon Prime, Disney Plus and HBO Max, among others, Netflix has seen many viewers overflow. Yet, thanks to hits like The crown, Stranger things, the witcher, Bridgerton and La casa de papel still over 220 million subscribers. Are you a Netflix glutton and do you really want to get the most out of the service, then you should not miss the tips below.

Netflix has plenty of features that not everyone likes. What if you don’t immediately after watching an episode of peaky blinders want to watch the next one right away? Or maybe you’re not looking for previews that blare through your room just a little too loud?

This concerns the ‘Post Play’ and the ‘Autoplay trailers’ functionality respectively. Go to your account and scroll to ‘Autoplay buttons’. Here you can turn off automatic previews of series and movies and the automatic playback of a new series.

Don’t feel like putting on your (reading) glasses, or do you think the subtitles are too small or too unclear? Via the browser function (for Android users it can also be done via the app) you can adjust many things, including the way in which the subtitles are displayed. Navigate to the correct profile in your account settings. There you can adjust the necessary via ‘Display of subtitles’. You can adjust color, size, font, shade of the letters and background color here.

Extra clues are nice for people with a visual impairment. More than 1,600 titles now also have audio descriptions. This gives you additional spoken descriptions of what is on the screen. If you click on the audio options of a movie or series episode, you can then click on English – Audio Description, if the title in question supports the feature.

Not everyone needs to see what you watch and when, especially if you share an account with someone. You can go to ‘Profile and Parental Control’ via the browser (or via the Android app) and then to your profile and then to Viewing activity. Then you can delete part or all of your viewing history.

Every film and series has a thumbs up with the text ‘Review’. Clicking on this will give you three choices: “Not for me” (thumbs down), “I like this one” (a thumbs up) and “Love it” (two thumbs up). The more often you use this, the better Netflix recommendations become.

Netflix has a huge library of content that is not always easy to present. You can be a fan of a genre, but to get even more specific, you can enter codes when you visit Netflix via the browser. Through ‘https://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/‘typing in and behind’genre/‘ By entering a number, you can search very specifically by genres, subgenres and sub-subgenres. The best help with this can be found, for example, via Netflix Codes and to a lesser extent What’s new on Netflix.

Both sites have already collected a lot of codes for you and update their content regularly. What’s new on Netflix has many more codes than Netflix Codes, but the latter is more accurate for the Netherlands. It may be that there is no offer in our region in a certain niche genre, but that does not mean that the category does not exist. Also, a code sometimes changes over time.

In any case, thanks to the above information, you can search extremely accurately for things you didn’t know existed. What about Belgian movies, Dark Revenge TV Series, comedy series about derailed families , touching movies about lesbian relationships or horror anime. Use it to your advantage.