You can download select TV shows and movies on the Netflix app to watch offline later. Watching downloaded titles offline does not count toward the concurrent streaming limit of your plan.
Probably the most useful update to Netflix since they introduced online streaming.
Tangent: What shows/movies are people watching? I'm enjoy Black Mirror (related), Tallulah with Ellen Page is great, and Demetri Martin's standup special is hilarious. Oh, and I recently re-watched Heavyweights. It holds up. 😊
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@rrhoover Chewing Gum, Black Mirror, The Crown is lit, Chef's Table, and Lovesick
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@rrhoover +1 for Black Mirror. Nacros is pretty amazing as well.
@vamsikvaranasi they do have an incredible advantage though unlike tech, the beverage world is hard to disrupt at this point. I wonder if it's possible 🤔
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@sisedi With blockbuster vs netflix, netflix filled a need of the consumer to get movies without hassle and in a convenient medium. I don't see a replacement for streaming, like ever. Unless we get movies that we can "experience", I mean actually live them, and somehow Netflix misses that train, I don't see it being disrupted so easily.
Coke always filled our need for fattening sugar water :D We'll always crave fattening sugar water, but Coke sells us excuses for drinking it more than the water itself.
@ank2302 it appears so. That until they launch a desktop application. With the rumours of offline support came also a Windows application. We'll have to wait for now
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@wraldpyk Thanks for the info! I would prefer a Mac app still :)
Awesome. We're one step closer to my dream of watching Netflix in VR on Daydream during plane trips. ETA for Netflix VR is end of year so I'm hoping for January usage!
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@thatmattgardner That's something I've never thought about: how ethical, moral, safe, or just courteous is it to use VR gear while on a commercial flight?
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@jasonsalas If you're staying within your space and not playing very intensive games (you don't want to be throwing limbs everywhere) I'm not sure if there would be any problems besides looking odd. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if when you got onto economy in 5 years time if everyone wouldn't be handed a headset so they can ignore the fact that they're crammed like sardines. You can watch your own movie selection on a theatre-sized screen, explore attractions you can visit after landing, or heck if they fix in-flight wifi you could still work/have meetings.
Plus with the headset the airlines could probably justify another row of seats because people wouldn't notice the 1in less room per seat ;)
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@thatmattgardner That's an interesting theory! At the expense of awkwardness (which is always subjective), at least with VR you get privacy. You could watch a horror film on a flight without worrying about offending others. Now, what I'm wondering is possible compounded motion sickness due to HMD latency plus the fact that you're in a moving pressurized vehicle.
Will this defeat the purpose of streaming? In Asia, this will impact netflix membership. There will be one account for offline viewing and then share it among friends and family. I think this could impact Netflix abroad.
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@sridhar_kondoji doubt it, since this is app only they could just tie it to authorised devices
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