Flown about a ½ dozen times this month. On the flights tablets out number laptops by about 4 to 1. I only bring an iPad Pro with Smart Keyboard when I travel now. I think you’re running about a decade behind, but there’s no shame in that. We all wish we could go back to 2008 right about now.

Download the Netflix app from the windows store. What OS are you using?

Are you high? You kind of have this backwards. For most people, the tablet superseded the laptop a long time ago. Unless you actually have to work on it, there’s very little reason to use a laptop for any other purpose. Remember netbooks? Yeah...killed by the tablet, I wonder why.

My Android phone is rooted, which seems to disable this as well (for the same reason).

Hopefully it’ll be added at a later release. I view this almost like a Beta starting with just a few options and over time adding more as the feature is adopted and popularized. Personally I’m hoping for a option to download to external drive to be used on another authenticated device for um, non-firewall related…

I only know this because I had to look it up for my job, but tablet shipments are definitely dropping. Maybe 12% this year over last. It’s a bit of a false stat, though, as the main reason for the drop is that people who want them already have them, and tend to keep them longer. So it’s not like people aren’t using…

there are also progs like bluestacks that basically emulate android on your pc

There is already a Windows app for Netflix. Sure, older computers and people that refuse to upgrade will be unable to use it. But I don’t think that’s a big concern.

Probably because it’s easier to circumvent DRM on a full computer, they want to limit it to devices where people won’t be able to mess around with the downloaded files. Also ‘select movies and tv shows’ probably means that Netflix’s already highly limited library will have an even more ridiculously limited selection…

I’m wondering if virtual playing would work (probably only with Android). Download the show on your phone, then mirror your phone’s screen onto your laptop. But it’d have to be through Bluetooth/USB to be useful where wifi/service isn’t available. Of course that would also mess with quality and be much more work than…

Netflix offers a Windows Store version of their player that is essentially functionally the same as the iOS and Android versions. They would just have to update that app.

Windows 10 already has a standalone Netflix App.

You could technically do something like this with HTML5 (tho not all browsers would support the DRM I’m sure would be required), but the challenge would be building a native player for Netflix on the desktop . That’s certainly possible but I can’t imagine Netflix wanting to dedicate the resources for that sort of…

I hope somehow they can reach around an agreement to settle their dispute.

Let’s just hope they washed their hands of the whole affair. With lots of Purell.