Watch movies on Web?
We have only a hotspot ... and 5G a month (but could get more) If we want to watch a movie - order one - it will take a lot of our allowance? Is that correct? We asked this once before - but t...
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MrWizard wrote:
with Netflix, or Hulu, Amazon or other "STREAMING" website services
the video is streamed, its 'live' its Not downloaded
with Amazon you can choose SD or HD, SD uses less data
Netflix will let you set it your preferences/settings, so if you choose lower quality it uses less data
also if your connection is slow, netflix will automatically reduce to a lower setting, to keep the movie streaming, and do as little 'buffering' as possible
amazon and redbox will let you 'buy' a movie
a buy is downloaded to your device/pc
streaming subscriptions like netflix are continuous streams watched live, not downloaded,
and yes 5 gigs is not much, 2 or 3 movies will use most if NOT all of it
We stream a lot of video and have found that with Netflix our actual usage is more like 1GB/2hrs which means that a movie is roughly a GB. Quite a bit of Netflix content does not stream in HD regardless of your account settings. We watch a lot of foreign crime series and most of them appear to have been filmed in SD.
