Ha, my long distance relationship survived with a good old fashioned "3, 2, 1, go!" :)

/think better delay pressing start by the latency amount ;]

This is actually what we were doing (on IRC), but it doesn't scale up to 5 or 6 people over IRC very well.

Yeah, what's with all the tech?

I'll be bookmarking this because sometimes I want to sync watch with files that I have on my computer.

I personally have used http://syncplay.pl/

It seems to be similar in concept :)

Huh. I've been using a very hacky script I wrote myself for this purpose, but I hadn't seen syncplay - strongly considering switching to it.

One of the main reasons I use it is because it supports MPC-HC, which I often use instead of VLC.