{"id":162652,"date":"2016-04-21T10:59:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T08:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=162652"},"modified":"2016-04-21T11:00:44","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T09:00:44","slug":"netflix-open-to-adding-offline-viewing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/162652-netflix-open-to-adding-offline-viewing.html","title":{"rendered":"Netflix open to adding offline viewing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix is \u201ckeeping an open mind\u201d about adding a feature to let subscribers download videos for offline viewing, CEO Reed Hastings said in a\u00a0Q1 2016 earnings call.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we expand around the world, where we see an uneven set of networks, it\u2019s something we should keep an open mind about,&#8221; said Hastings.<\/p>\n<p>In South Africa, OntapTV and ShowMax already offer offline viewing &#8211; allowing subscribers to download movies or series to their mobile devices to watch later.<\/p>\n<p>Offline viewing typically lets subscriber store a limited number of titles for up to 30 days. Once you start watching something, you have 48 hours to finish it.<\/p>\n<p>In the United States, Netflix\u2019s main market, competitors Amazon Video and YouTube Red let subscribers download content to watch offline.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5wAlIVtgBz0?start=1349\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More on downloadable video-on-demand content<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/153033-showmax-download-now-watch-later-feature-on-iphone-and-ipad.html\"><strong>ShowMax \u201cdownload now, watch later\u201d feature on iPhone and iPad<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/149655-showmax-now-offers-downloads-for-offline-viewing.html\"><strong>ShowMax now offers downloads for offline viewing<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/138798-ontaptv-com-in-south-africa-for-r89-per-month.html\"><strong>ONTAPtv.com in South Africa for R89 per month<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CEO of Netflix has said they are open to the idea of introducing a way to download movies or episodes to watch later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":151299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[36,36802,167,1643,2054,34409,32908,16076,32140,2150,33504],"class_list":["post-162652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-active","tag-amazon-video","tag-google","tag-naspers","tag-netflix","tag-ontaptv","tag-pccw-global","tag-reed-hastings","tag-showmax","tag-youtube","tag-youtube-red"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162660,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162652\/revisions\/162660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}