"Free" ways to take movies etc on holidays?

gemmaj

Hello, my holidays are mainly camping (so no TV!) but I like taking a few movies and TV shows, for me and the kids.

I do this with Amazon prime and a Fire tablet - this lets me download and then watch offline (no internet required). I am aware it is also possible to download from YouTube (although not legal) but I don't find there is much on it anyway these days (as in proper movies etc).

Am I missing anything else? What do other people do? I have Now TV and Netflix but it doesn't look like either allow download to watch offline, and I really don't want to spend extra buying downloads.

iammumtoone

I saw an advert that you could do this was going to look into it further.

How can you get a list of what films are available to download?

Johnmcl7

Netflix does allow some items to be downloaded as I've tried it recently, managed to download a couple of films and TV series without issue.

Iplayer should also allow you to download content for viewing offline as well.

John

gemmaj

On my Fire tablet I go to the Amazon Video app, and click along to TV or Movies. Both have sections for "included with prime", or its anything with the prime banner on it. You can have 25-ish items downloaded per prime membership (which sounds great until you include Ben and Holly episodes!!). Once downloaded they stay about 30 days, and once you click play (when offline) it gives you 48 hours to watch it - any more and you have to join up to the internet again.

It works really well, but I don't like my Fire tablet much (its second hand from the kids and slow) and I'd rather switch to something else, but I don't think there is any other decent way to take offline videos

gemmaj

Thanks Johnmcl7 - will look into those.

forgotmyname

Why is it illegal to download from youtube?

Geoff1963

A laptop / portable DVD player, and half an hour in a charity / electronic exchange shop where they are about £1 each.

I don't think a Fire tablet will hold that many films.

London50

By expanding the memory with micro sd cards you can and most if not all Fire tablets will take cards up to 200 GB so plenty of storage for films/music/books/games and photos

donnajunkie

You maybe able to download on kodi. Might depend on build. This is shady though so I won't be naming a build in the thread.

ballyblack

Download content from Netflix and BBC iplayer for free ( BBC content to internal memory only)

Netflix to an SD card (set this up in Netflix settings on device)

Most content is available to download and keep for 30 days.


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Cornucopia

forgotmyname wrote: »

Why is it illegal to download from youtube?

I don't think it's illegal as such - it's more a question of whether the content was there legally in the first place.

Either way, I don't think it's a question of liability for the downloader, who can legitimately claim that it was done in good faith for personal use. (And both Format shifting and Time shifting are deemed fair usage in the UK).