Not all Netflix originals are produced by Netflix. Some are just licensed or co-produced. My guess is that content allows downloads depending on the contract they have with Netflix. Moving forward, I would expect most of the new contracts will include the download language.
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This feature is nearly worthless, because the quality of downloaded media is atrocious.
A typical 40-45min series episode is 200-250MB. And yes, it looks like VHS quality on an iPad. Guess it's okay on a small screen iPhone, but that's it.
Edit: I was wrong. See next posts.
A typical 40-45min series episode is 200-250MB. And yes, it looks like VHS quality on an iPad. Guess it's okay on a small screen iPhone, but that's it.
Edit: I was wrong. See next posts.
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Forget the BS I wrote. I just needed to change the settings to download in higher quality. The standard setting is on "normal" quality.
Anyone know if the APIs with the old (or new) Apple TVs could allow for download? It wouldn't be much on the old (probably one movie or two TV shows or something) but it could be a selling point for 32gig Apple TVs for people with slow internet or that don't want to tie it up with streaming....
We have a low bandwidth internet connection that makes streaming video in the evenings a hit and miss deal with lots of buffering. So we’ve been using Amazon’s video app to download shows to an iPhone in the morning and watch them later that evening via AirPlay to our AppleTV4. I was hoping to do the same with the new Netflix app. BUT…. It appears that Netflix has disabled Airplay of downloaded content to an AppleTV. We can still use Airplay to mirror an iPhone to the AppleTV; but the quality suffers. Ironically, we can stream non-downloaded content from the same series to the same iPhone and use standard Airplay (not mirroring) to view it on the same AppleTV.
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Downloading from the torrent is not new, also good, much more usable features such as watching on any device I want, not just iOS, has all content I want - not just what Netflux has managed to secure rights for, much better quality, etc.
And any "useful" app that does not support iPad in 2016 going into 2017 definitely deserves a 1-2 star review.
That actually makes sense as they probably hadn't bothered or didn't push hard for rights pertaining to downloads for many of the older acquisitions. But probably anything they've co-produced or acquired in the past couple of years, it's a non-negotiable issue since that's on the company roadmap. Hopefully as terms come up for option in some of the older shows, they can secure download rights.
Well, we are talking about some very recent things too, like Luke Cage just from a couple of months ago, or even the new Gilmore Girls that just came out, compared to The Crown from a few weeks ago or so or Stranger Things from a few months ago. Kind of neither here nor there in terms of timing. More likely probably related to other studios/entities involved in different shows.
Netflix has only recently been starting to produce their content in-house. Most of it so far, including "Netflix Originals" is 3rd party production or acquisitions or distributor rights. But over the past year, they've been building their in-house production teams. In 6 months to a year, a lot more content will become available for download (see above post)
We went from not being able to download anything to being able to download much more than I ever expected at launch for no additional $. I'm pretty happy about the whole thing.
They've certainly been doing their own content for quite a while now going back to House of Cards and Orange is the new Black. A good portion of the originals are not in-house, but a good portion are and have been for some time now.
Well...that's exactly what I'm saying. Luke Cage is a Marvel property. Netflix the distributor. Marvel is going to want a premium for this and the related series. It's all going to be a negotiating point for this Netflix Universe in the coming years.
As for the other shows, it's all really very dependent on the Production Company, who owns the rights, etc.
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They are the distributor, not the Production company for both of those. HoC is a Sony Property. OITNB is a Liongate property. Made for Netflix doesn't mean they own full rights. It's just licensing & marketing.
EDIT: This article might help explain. Flaked sounds like it was the first true in-house Netflix production and released earlier this year.
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There are pretty much always other production companies involved. What sort of other "in-house" content that is being produced that we are talking about?
Well...yes. Which is why it's all been 3rd party for Netflix shows so far - because there is a 3rd party Production Company involved. It's someone else's property and Netflix is a distributor even if it's branded a Netflix Original. You think House of Cards would be on Amazon if they owned it?
In-house means a Netflix Production team produced the show. A bit of an oversimplification but basically they hired the staff, crew, they rented the studio, paid the DGA, IA, WGA, SAG/AFTRA, etc. They oversaw the pre-production, production & post. They own it soup to nuts - the script, the copyrights, they own the options, they control the licensing and distro. That's in-house. Flaked seems to be the first one.
I work in television and I've had a lot of friends move to Netflix over the past couple of years and it's definitely a different structure than before.
That would be a very limited way of looking at things. A glass can be x/y empty.
For what it's worth, I'm happy for my fellow humans in America, who can download shows and movies. As for Finland, where I live, the whole Netflix catalogue apart from their original shows is pretty much half the discount bin at one of the bigger supermarkets. I watched most of the interesting stuff on there in two months. No need to download. A month every two years is probably enough to keep up with new stuff.
I've already said I stand corrected a few posts after my original one, and long before your own, so you can get off your high horse.
What's an even bigger joke are people who will get out of their way to criticize people who voice their opinion, as if somehow their whole family had been insulted.
Freaking yes or no would suffice ... like it's always released the same day worldwide. Contents are different worldwide as well, in case you don't know.