“I think it’s something that lots of people ask for. “It’s not going to be instant, you have to have the right storage on your device, you have to manage it, and I’m just not sure people are actually that compelled to do that, and that it’s worth providing that level of complexity,” Neil Hunt, Netflix’s Chief Product Officer, told Gizmodo at the IFA trade show in Berlin last year.
Netflix, though, continued to dismiss the idea. Prime Video subscribers can already download select titles from the SVOD catalogue to view offline. Amazon beat its rival to it, though, by adding downloads last year. Amazon Prime Video now supports SD card storage for offline downloads.ĭownloading titles from a subscription VOD service is something that has long been on the wishlist of Netflix users.
