My significant other and I want to watch recorded TV shows together. Problem is: we live a few hundred kilometers apart and only see each other on the weekends, which we want to use for seeing mutual friends or going out.
So, we thought about watching the shows simultaneously while having a Skype call running so we can hear each others snarky comments on the shows.
My question is: Are there any tools that could help us in synchronizing playback on two different machines (Macs)? Our fallback would be to just hit "play" at the same time but that doesn't seem very precise.
Another problem would be the sound feedback through Skype. We don't want to hear the audio from the shows in there. That would probably create weird echoes.