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People binge-watching a TV series could certainly anticipate their near-future media demands and download the series through means other than cellular networks.
by liability 7y ago
People binge-watching a TV series could certainly anticipate their near-future media demands and download the series through means other than cellular networks. Downloading video and storing it on flash memory could eliminate a huge chunk of the demand for streamed video.
- deanCommie 7y agoThey could, but...they don't want to. So they won't!
- liability 7y agoYou don't know that. Currently consumers don't have the (legal) option, so extrapolating their current behavior to their potential desires is fallacious.
- majormajor 7y agoI could've been doing this with iTunes for TV shows for years. It would be way less convenient, though. So I don't. I don't know which device I'll end up watching on, and don't want to deal with syncing and all that shit.
- liability 7y ago> iTunes for TV shows for years. Which is way more expensive than streaming services. Prohibitively so for wide swaths of the general population who don't have tech industry salaries. The cost of one TV show from iTunes can approach the price of several months of Netflix. With copyright reform, that needn't be the case. (Note that for many consumers, Netflix is already considered too expensive. Several people sharing the cost of one account is pretty common from what I've seen.)
- scottlegrand2 7y agoI download entire seasons of TV series with my Android Netflix client all the time. It's fantastic for travel.
- wideasleep1 7y agoNetflix has downloads.
- lern_too_spel 7y agoNetflix and Amazon Prime Video already offer the ability to download and play later, so there is no need to extrapolate, and we do know that.
- liability 7y agoAs I understand it, those features come with considerable DRM limitations. So no, it's really not the same.
- lern_too_spel 7y agoThey don't come with any practical limitations, so it is really the same.
- godelski 7y agoStreaming is just downloading in order. Data downloads while I watch/listen. That's super convenient. That's the big advantage of streaming. Keeping that data or dumping that data is a different issue.
- liability 7y agoStreaming is downloading, but without the timeshifting properties you get from storing the media to flash. With properly downloadable media, you can download in the evening, on your wired residential connection, and watch during the day when you only have a cellular connection.
- godelski 7y agoConventional downloading methods do not order the packets. So you can watch/listen during the downloading process.