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Netflix has generally amazing latency, I can feel that the engineers work really hard on fixing all latency issues, except when it totally fails: offline mode.
by xiphias2 5y ago
Netflix has generally amazing latency, I can feel that the engineers work really hard on fixing all latency issues, except when it totally fails: offline mode.
I always have some films downloaded on my iPad Pro that I want to watch when I don't have internet (travelling on long plane flight), and with Netflix always the best films that I want to watch are ,,expired''. It would take 1 second to ,,renew'' them, but I have to wait until the end of the flight to have internet access again, and then I forget it, as I don't look at downloads anymore. It's really frustrating that I see that I have something downloaded, taking space on my SSD, but can't be used when I need it.
I wish it could just renew the video certificates automatically whenever I access the internet, and generally it would be great to have better analysis tools for offline / crappy internet for companies.
Usually I use Youtube more on the plane, because it doesn't play these games with me.
- zwily 5y agoI have the same experience. It feels like the download experience was only really made for the “I’m watching a series and want to keep watching it on the plane” use case, and not the “I downloaded 10 episodes of Micky Mouse for my 3yo on our last trip a year ago and now she wants to watch them again but I can’t cause…” use case.
- effingwewt 5y agosomething that was solved with recordable media, then with the internet instantly via usenet, then pirate sites. these companies will never learn, they literally invent their own problems as soon as they think they can force their bullshit on us.
- nikau 5y agoArrrrrr if only there was an easy solution me matey