I have a netflix account and a smartphone. My smartphone hits its data cap at 2.5GB a month, after that it is throttled. Netflix on the lowest quality setting uses 0.3GB an hour, so after 8 hours I will have hit my monthly cap.
However my home internet is pretty nice, I get about 25Mbps (not that most sites upload that fast but still) with no data cap.
I was wanting to legally download movies and TV shows on my home internet, put them on my phone so I can watch them later, then delete them when I'm done. Doing so means I don't have to worry about burning through all my bandwidth by streaming videos. So far the only ways I have found to do this are by downloading video podcasts, but most of those seem to be news shows.
It'd be nice if netflix had this option of letting you download a few hours of video on wifi, then having it automatically delete within 48 hours or so so you don't run into any 3G phone bandwidth issues, but I don't think they do that.
Are there any other options aside from video podcasts?
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