Do you have (Cdn) Netflix?

[FigmentSpark]

If you leave the country, can you still access your Cdn account or are you routed to the account of the country you're in?

I'm wondering if I should download any binging I might want to do (we're driving!) or if I'll be able to access my account to watch my shows. Also, wondered if the U.S. shows will suddenly show up in my list.

Anyone know?

 

[Aladora]

If you leave the country, can you still access your Cdn account or are you routed to the account of the country you're in?

I'm wondering if I should download any binging I might want to do (we're driving!) or if I'll be able to access my account to watch my shows. Also, wondered if the U.S. shows will suddenly show up in my list.

Anyone know?

It is region specific so when you are in the US, you will access all the shows they have!

Pro-tip: If there are any shows there that you can't get here, download them to your device to watch when you get home! (I turned on airplane mode on my tablet after downloading just in case the shows vanished when I got back to Canada but I don't know if that was necessary)

Edited to add: I simply logged in with my Canadian account information and it detected I was in the US, I didn't need a US Netflix account.

 

[tinkerone]

If there is something important that you want I would download it here. The reason I say this is that a few years ago, on our trip to WDW, I got back to my hotel room thinking I would pick up where I left off on a movie. Turned out that the movie I wanted to watch was not on the US netflex so I couldn't play it. Silly me, I did the same thing on my way home. Started watching a movie in the US and thought I would finish it when I got home. Didn't happen as it was not on the Canadian list.
There are lots of things that can be played in both countries but lots that can't as well. So yes, download just in case.

 

[FigmentSpark]

Awesome.

@tinkerone - will the download play once you leave that country, though? I've had things downloaded here in Canada that expired on the site and then expired in my downloads, as well.

 

[minnie56]

Awesome.

@tinkerone - will the download play once you leave that country, though? I've had things downloaded here in Canada that expired on the site and then expired in my downloads, as well.

No. I downloaded a brilliant series in the UK last July ..I watched a few episodes and a couple more on the flight. Somewhere over the Atlantic the rest disappeared.

 

[Disney_Alli]

Even stuff you download won't necessarily work in the other country. Darn Paw Patrol isn't available in the US and my nephew was NOT HAPPY that even his downloaded episodes didn't play.

 

[FigmentSpark]

Even stuff you download won't necessarily work in the other country. Darn Paw Patrol isn't available in the US and my nephew was NOT HAPPY that even his downloaded episodes didn't play.

That's what I was afraid of.

 

[tinkerone]

Even stuff you download won't necessarily work in the other country. Darn Paw Patrol isn't available in the US and my nephew was NOT HAPPY that even his downloaded episodes didn't play.

Awesome.

@tinkerone - will the download play once you leave that country, though? I've had things downloaded here in Canada that expired on the site and then expired in my downloads, as well.

No. I downloaded a brilliant series in the UK last July ..I watched a few episodes and a couple more on the flight. Somewhere over the Atlantic the rest disappeared.

That I didn't know so some good information here. I never tried to download anything, I just kept my expectations to a minimum. But for sure, don't expect your Canadian content to play in the US then if it does, bonus!

 

[FigmentSpark]

No. I downloaded a brilliant series in the UK last July ..I watched a few episodes and a couple more on the flight. Somewhere over the Atlantic the rest disappeared.

I hope it wasn't on a cliffhanger in the series.

 

[isabellea]

We never had issues with downloaded content except that sone dowliads expire very quickly while others don’t (true even when watching within Canada).

When we drove to FL for the Holidays my youngest downloaded the whole 1st season of Wild Kratts. This show is not on Netflix US and she was able to eatch them for the whole two weeks we were there.

 

[bankr63]

And the trick to keeping those episodes is what @Aladora offered in the pro-tip. If the device you have downloaded to gains a network connection while NetFlix is active (and on tablets or phones, it is often running the background) then the geofencing will kill your downloaded content. Using airplane mode or not joining any networks will keep your content, and that is probably why @isabellea's Wild Kratts kept working. Of course if you stay off any networks, then you can't connect to NetFlix US and watch all of the great extra content they have down there.

There was a time where you could proxy a connection at home and get content from both sides of the border, but NetFlix got wise and shut down that path a few years back.

 

[FigmentSpark]

Hmmm. Well, I need to go on line for other reasons, but that's a good point about keeping Netflix off the web. I do have an old ipad. I wonder...

Now the other question is whether my flaky Cogeco TiVo app will allow me to stream my at-home content while I'm in the U.S. or will it decide that's a good time to log me out, so I have to log in and reset. And why does it take Netflix about a minute to download an hour show, but the TiVo app takes at least 15 minutes for the same length?

 

[isabellea]

And the trick to keeping those episodes is what @Aladora offered in the pro-tip. If the device you have downloaded to gains a network connection while NetFlix is active (and on tablets or phones, it is often running the background) then the geofencing will kill your downloaded content. Using airplane mode or not joining any networks will keep your content, and that is probably why @isabellea's Wild Kratts kept working. Of course if you stay off any networks, then you can't connect to NetFlix US and watch all of the great extra content they have down there.

There was a time where you could proxy a connection at home and get content from both sides of the border, but NetFlix got wise and shut down that path a few years back.

My daughter’s ipad was on wifi while in the USA. In fact, at one time she had US-only shows downloaded next to Canada-only Wild Kratts for our drive from FLL to WDW.

 

[Carolynleanne]

That's weird. We still had Paw Patrol episodes on our Ipad that we downloaded in Canada that worked in the USA??

 

[Disney_Alli]

I don't know exactly what happened all I know is there was an exhausted and unhappy 2.5 year old and no Paw Patrol...

 

[minnie56]

I hope it wasn't on a cliffhanger in the series.

It was such a god series ..pooofff