Theability to download and watch movies and TV shows offline is one of the best features of Netflix. It makes the service so much easier to use when you're traveling and don't have access to the internet.
However, phones have a limited amount of internal storage, and you need it for your apps, photos, and everything else too. Fortunately, Netflix allows you to download content to an SD card, allowing you to save space on Android.
It will now save all of your future downloads to your microSD card. Anything you've already downloaded will remain on your phone's internal storage. If you want to put that onto your card you'll have to re-download it.
To watch your downloaded movies and shows, back out of the Settings screen and tap the Downloads button at the bottom. All of your content is here, with shows and other collections grouped together for convenience. Hit the Edit button in the top-right to delete anything you no longer want.
Netflix downloads don't last forever. The number of times you can download something, and how long you can keep it, varies depending on the license for each piece of content. Some downloads expire within 48 hours of you starting to watch them; others that have less than seven days left will show the expiry date on the Downloads screen.
Also, note that you can't share your downloads with someone else by putting your memory card into their phone. And if a movie or TV show leaves the Netflix library your download will disappear at the same time.
Netflix isn't the only streaming service that lets you watch content offline. Our guide detailing how to legally download movies for free to watch offline has a rundown of many other services you can use.
As living in a world where capitalism impact is inevitable, marketing becomes part of our lives since it keeps up capitalism by making anything desirable for its customers. Correspondingly, the reflection of it on every part of our lives, including the series and movies we watched every day, is undeniable. The series and movies addressing marketing are getting on our agenda increasingly day by day yet more influencing us with up-to-date adaptations and engaging content on the most popular platforms. Here are the 12 series picks from the most popular streaming portal Netflix for those who interested in marketing.
A drama series about the cases a law firm goes through, mainly focusing on two best lawyers in New York; Mike Ross and Harvey Specter. The series indicates strategies that developed while decision making and emphasizes many crisis management examples that can inspire.
A Netflix Original Documentary Series that implies the actuality that lies behind the deceptions while marketing of the popular consumer goods and the unfortunate consequences of them in the capitalist system.
Jiro Dreams of Sushi is a documentary that is about an 85-year-old sushi chef Jiro Ono who devotes his life to becoming the best sushi chef. The documentary implies how he build the reputation of being a legend with a modest restaurant.
Follow This is a documentary series that is a collaboration of BuzzFeed and Netflix which is about the different highlighted topics of internet culture in each episode emphasizing the fact that internet is shaping the culture and hosted by BuzzFeed reporters.
Girl Boss is a series that has 13 episodes about a passionate girl who became a businesswoman by creating her site about fashion after going through devastating problems and a follow-up process of dealing with them and turning those into advantages and for new beginnings.
The Mind Explained is a mini-documentary series with 5 episodes; each of them is around 20 minutes. It implies the brain's working, including the memory set, where it can give inspiring information for marketers since knowing how people think is the ultimate goal!
As one of the most popular series on Netflix, Black Mirror implies the different alternative-near-future scenarios of technology-dominated worlds. The implementations in each episode guiding the audience and shaping the expectations for the near future, in other words being a leading determinant for all sectors.
A mini-documentary about the planned but can not go live Fyre Festival in 2017 and how the festival failed and build a bad reputation of being the worst festival, furthermore causing devastation for thousands of attendees.
Ever since Al Gore (or whoever) invented the Internet, entrepreneurs and investors have been trying to find ways to profit from it. Few investment activities are more fun than picking Internet stocks -- fun, risky and, sometimes, fulfilling. In 2002, I invested in the stock of Netflix (symbol NFLX) shortly after the film-rental company's stock went public at $15. I loved its Big Idea: videos, ordered online, that you could keep as long as you wanted and return by mail, to be replaced by new titles. The business was deliciously simple; at the time, anyone could do the arithmetic and determine that if Netflix acquired three million subscribers, it would make decent money.
In fact, the next year Netflix started to show a profit, and the stock shot up to $60. Well satisfied with a three-bagger (as Peter Lynch, the legendary former manager of Fidelity Magellan Fund, calls a tripling in share price), I sold all my stock. Shortly afterward, Netflix split two for one, and for the next five years I repeatedly patted myself on the back as worries about competitors and pricing pressure kept the shares from breaking out.
Then, in 2009, Netflix made some major breakthroughs. Customers began to forgo the mail for the joys of being able to download movies from Netflix via the Internet. Netflix even struck deals with Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony that brought videos directly to game consoles. Shares of Netflix, which now has more than 13 million subscribers, closed at $118 (the equivalent of $236 before the split) on August 6.
An obvious lesson here (which I often preach but sometimes ignore): Don't trade, hold. Still, I have taken a certain paternal satisfaction in Netflix's success. Is it still a buy? I think so, although I worry about a business that requires large capital expenditures each year to maintain its infrastructure. Yet despite the sluggish economy -- or maybe because of it, with Americans cozying up at home rather than going to the movies -- Netflix has increased its profits dramatically for each of the past four years, and it will do the same again in 2010 and almost certainly in 2011. Analysts, on average, project annual earnings increases of 27% over the next three to five years, making Netflix's price-earnings ratio of 42 (based on estimated 2010 profits) defensible, if not rock-bottom.
Also, like many Internet firms, Netflix has a strong balance sheet. Last year the company took on $200 million in long-term debt (at 8.5% interest), its only loan on the books, to finance a stock buyback -- a display of confidence. And it holds $279 million in cash. Such conservatism is necessary because no one knows how the brave new world of on-demand video will shake out. Just as Blockbuster's store-based model ran aground, so could the Net-flix subscriber model. Already, you can order videos straight from the screen, on impulse, from your cable provider. Perhaps Netflix is not the exciting business it was in 2002, but with a market capitalization of $6.2 billion and an A rating from Value Line for financial strength, it's become a solid citizen.
Monitor the competition. It isn't hard to crack the Internet world. Netflix did not have to build thousands of stores to compete with Blockbuster, and Netflix's electronic competitors won't have to fashion a network of warehouses to speed DVDs by mail. So make sure the company you invest in has some kind of moat to keep out the invaders.
Don't lose faith. Priceline.com (PCLN), the travel site, was nearly given up for dead in 2003 when, after three years of big deficits, the stock fell so low it had to undergo a one-for-six reverse split to escape penny-stock purgatory. Since those depths, the stock has appreciated 30-fold.
Diversify. A good rule of thumb is that three of your Internet picks will fail (that is, go to zero or close to it), but one may succeed spectacularly. One ten-bagger will do wonders for your overall results.
Such a personal approach to stock picking eliminates mutual funds. Which is just as well. Look at Jacob Internet (JAMFX), founded in December 1999, on the brink of the high-tech collapse. The fund has a mere $37 million in assets, a ten-year annualized loss of 6.7%, and a whopping expense ratio of 3.64%. Its portfolio is led by Apple (AAPL), a company I love but one that is hard to consider an Internet firm, and Google (GOOG), which is favorably priced at 18 times estimated 2010 earnings. (Stocks in boldface, including Netflix, are ones I recommend.)
As for other Internet stocks, here's the most attractive Big Idea of the moment: A business called Blue Nile (NILE) markets diamonds on the Web. An imaginative site lets customers search for specific diamond rings and other jewelry using such measures as clarity, color and size, with prices from a few hundred to several hundred thousand dollars and overnight delivery by FedEx. The stock, at 46 times estimated 2010 earnings, is as pricey as the diamonds. But analysts expect profits to grow 20% annually over the next few years, and Blue Nile has less than $1 million in debt, a decent amount of cash and low capital-spending needs.
Looking at the earnings of companies such as Amazon, Apple, Google and Netflix, you would never know we had gone through a terrible recession and were in the midst of such a sluggish recovery. The potential bargains are the Internet stocks that are clearly suffering in this economic environment but should perk up if it improves. A good example is LoopNet (LOOP), which runs an online marketplace for commercial real estate. With $118 million in cash and no debt, the company has been profitable since its 2006 IPO, has a market cap of $470 million, and could soar as the real estate market rebounds.
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