PlayOn Cloud
Has anyone used PlayOn Cloud? According to their site, it's "The mobile app that lets you record and download streaming shows and movies to watch offline."
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Got the app on my android phone and I am using the free credit to download a 20 minute TV show from Netflix. Echostar 17, Gen5 10GB, 2.4GHz (down the hall from it) for reference. Downloading in SD format. Will see how it goes on the first device then try to watch it on other devices.
Awesome, Amanda. Do report back-- if it works well, it may be a nice thing for people to have if they want to stream without buffering. It doesn't sound expensive at all, either. I understand it's something like 40 cents a download.
Amanda wrote:Got the app on my android phone and I am using the free credit to download a 20 minute TV show from Netflix. Echostar 17, Gen5 10GB, 2.4GHz (down the hall from it) for reference. Downloading in SD format. Will see how it goes on the first device then try to watch it on other devices.
Hi- sorry I got caught up in other stuff :)
The download finished at 1:15 PM EST - that's about 20 minutes to download a 20 minute show in SD....Actually, scratch that. This is what it does
"watches" the show for you (they call it recording)
After it is done recording, a notification appears telling you that your video is ready to download
You get a download and a separate play button - hitting play seems to stream the video all over again.
Downloading it then prompts another process of actually putting the recording on your device. In this case, I had to download a 211MB video file.
Checking my usage now, I am missing 400MB of Anytime. Might be a fluke but I am interested to see how much data BirdDog ended up using in the end. Anyway, the video plays smooth after downloading it to my phone.
edit: Want to also point out that since I'm logged into my phone w/ my Google account, Google tried to automatically "back up" the video file to my Photos (Drive). That would have been a 200MB Upload :O
