Netflicks?

1775 wrote:
I did a bandwidth test and found that one hour of streaming movie uses one GB of bandwidth - so the 5 GB limit that many data plans have will be used up with two and a half average movies.

Redbox has machines in many Walmarts and supermarkets. You can rent a DVD from one Redbox machine and return it to another so this is an alternative to streaming video while traveling. There are apps to find Redbox locations and also their website should tell you where their machines are located.

I assume you are aware that you can control, to some degree, the bandwidth of your Netflix stream. For most of the shows we watch we are quite content with the "middle" setting of the three that are available and we find that the data usage is more like 1GB for two hours of viewing which is roughly equal to 1GB per movie.

I can't understand why people look at the data limits on their cellular plans as "absolutes" as if you can't go past them. If you have a plan that charges you $10 per GB over the limit and you can limit your data rate to ~1GB per movie, then a movie will cost ~$10 which isn't all that much more than the ~$7 DirecTV or cable providers charge for pay-per-view. Furthermore, if you take the car to drive to a Redbox to pickup or return you should include the cost of the gas used when considering the total cost of the entertainment. Redbox is fine if you like what they happen to have; there's a lot more content available through Netflix and Amazon. As full-timers we would run through things that interest at Redbox pretty quickly.