I have a Galaxy Tab S7 and for a trip to Spain I downloaded some stuff to watch on the flight. When I got on the plane none of the stuff downloaded on Disney+ would play. Maybe an issue with downloading to the SD card? I don't know, but regardless Disney offers SD card as a download destination so they should make sure it is working.

So now I'm here pirating a show that should be available to me through a service I pay for. Gabe was right, piracy is a service problem.

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[–] WashedOver@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not sure if Disney+ has this issue but I sometimes leave my Netflix tablet in airplane mode when going to another country. If the show is not available in that country when connected to the internet it will not allow play back of the shows I've downloaded.

[–] raptir@lemdro.id 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah I was still on the plane and it was in airplane mode.

[–] SomeoneElse@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I downloaded some stuff on the Disney app on my iPad for my flight to Greece last month and it worked perfectly.

[–] raptir@lemdro.id 2 points 2 years ago

I'm glad it worked for you. My problem is that if I can't trust it to work reliably I'm just going to use something else.

[–] Axxi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's probably some weird DRM where it needs to authenticate with their server in order to verify you're actually the one with an account. It's silly. The steps they take to try and stop piracy are what in fact drives most people to it.

I started downloading shows from several streaming services I pay for simply because of the number of repeating ads they'll run during a show. A 24 min runtime gets extended to 45 minutes for all the ads, which I was sitting through for months but when they only have two different ads on loop, WTF!? A man can only take so much!

[–] TheAutisticSlavicBoy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

then why offer local dl if connection required anyway

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