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stu28

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#293883 19-Feb-2022 14:49

We are flying up to the Cook Islands in a few weeks time, and I thought I might be able to watch a move on our flight up to the Island with out paying Air New Zealand extra fee!

Does anyone know if that is possible?, I have a Samsung Tablet and phone.

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#2871375 19-Feb-2022 15:58

I'm a little confused. Do you just mean loading a movie onto your tablet and then just watching it during the flight? Yes of course.

When we were last there a couple of years ago, I took a USB drive loaded with a number of movies & a small laptop to watch them in the evenings

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#2871380 19-Feb-2022 16:09

Do you have to pay for movies on some flights? Or is it one of those 'hire a tablet filled with movies' scenarios

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#2871389 19-Feb-2022 16:30

stu28:
We are flying up to the Cook Islands in a few weeks time, and I thought I might be able to watch a move on our flight up to the Island with out paying Air New Zealand extra fee!

Does anyone know if that is possible?, I have a Samsung Tablet and phone.

If you have a Netflix account and the Netflix app on your device, you can download content for offline watching, this works well even in Airplane mode.

Disney Plus and Amazon Prime do this too, i've seen some playback be dependent on connectivity however - even if you have the content offline, it'll want to 'check in' before it'll let you watch. So my advice would be to have some content on all of the packages to give you some options.

Running VLC to play back any offline content you have in the usual video formats, transferred to your phone's memory card or onboard storage, will also work quite well.

I recommend a double-adaptor for your audio jack if you want to watch together. But also be prepared to have the volume cranked... noise cancelling headphones will help a lot.

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#2871404 19-Feb-2022 17:05

Netflix will download and play at any time, as mentioned.

Prime Video requires to be connected to start the movie, then you can disconnect - but if you are renting a movie then it starts counting the 48 hours you have to watch it.

If you download your content by other means then just copy the file to the tablet and use a video player like VLC to play that.

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#2871409 19-Feb-2022 17:16

One trick with Netflix ... if you have a pincode on the more mature content (e.g. to stop your kids watching it), and download something that requires the pincode to watch (e.g. Ozark), and try to watch it while offline, you might become frustrated when you find that the pincode you set doesn't work. Apparently in those cases the pincode 0000 will work.

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#2871702 20-Feb-2022 18:10

This use case is one of advantages of my plex setup for my kids.

I just select the movies or tv episodes i have ripped from my dvds and select ipad and it syncs them from nas tontheir ipad.

Ok only works for stuff ive ripped but kids like watching tbe sqme thing over and over and over and can also watch when at your destination for parental time out.