WEBVTT - Netflix Adds Smart Downloads

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<v Speaker 1>Microsoft has a new competitor to the iPad, Netflix has

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<v Speaker 1>a new automatic download feature, and earn an easy ten

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<v Speaker 1>bucks at Amazon.

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<v Speaker 2>What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro.

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<v Speaker 1>This is Rich on Tech, kind of a grab bag

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<v Speaker 1>of tech stories for you. Things have been kind of

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<v Speaker 1>slow since the July fourth holiday, but some news is

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<v Speaker 1>trickling in, and let's start with Microsoft. They've got a

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<v Speaker 1>new competitor to the iPad and it's called the Surface Go. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>if you're familiar with the Surface they've done.

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<v Speaker 2>A lot with this lineup.

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<v Speaker 1>It's basically their premiere computers that they're making now, which

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<v Speaker 1>kind of started out as a tablet slash computer, but now.

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<v Speaker 2>They have the Surface Laptop, They've got.

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<v Speaker 1>The Surface Studio, which is a giant computer, and now

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<v Speaker 1>they have the Surface Go. This is a combination tablet

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<v Speaker 1>and computer and it starts at four hundred dollars. It

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<v Speaker 1>has a ten in screen, plus you can add a

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<v Speaker 1>pen or a keyboard in addition to the touch screen,

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<v Speaker 1>so when you do that, the price is actually gonna

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<v Speaker 1>jump up quite considerably, but it's.

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<v Speaker 2>Still a pretty good deal.

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<v Speaker 1>There's also a build and kickstands so it can stand

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<v Speaker 1>up all by itself and The biggest difference between the

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<v Speaker 1>Surface Go and the iPad is probably the ports that

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<v Speaker 1>you get on it, because you do get a USB

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<v Speaker 1>C port, which adds a lot of convenience, plus a

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<v Speaker 1>headphone jack which the iPad has, and also a micro

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<v Speaker 1>SD slot which is really good for adding additional memory,

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<v Speaker 1>transferring information and stuff like that. The Microsoft Surface Go

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<v Speaker 1>is in stores on August second.

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<v Speaker 2>There will be two versions of this.

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<v Speaker 1>One that runs Windows S which only lets you install

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<v Speaker 1>apps inside the Windows Store, which pretty much everything that

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<v Speaker 1>you need is in there at this point, but there

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<v Speaker 1>will be a version also that runs the full Windows

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<v Speaker 1>so you can install any app on all.

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<v Speaker 2>Right, Moving on now to Netflix.

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<v Speaker 1>They have a new feature that will automatically download the

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<v Speaker 1>next episode of a show you're watching. It's called smart Downloads,

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<v Speaker 1>and Android users are getting it first, starting right now.

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<v Speaker 2>Once you turn on the Future, it will.

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<v Speaker 1>Automatically download the next episode of a show that you're watching.

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<v Speaker 1>So let's say you're binging a series, you finish one

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<v Speaker 1>show on your phone. As long as you're on Wi Fi,

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<v Speaker 1>we'll delete the show you just watched and it will

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<v Speaker 1>automatically download the next show in the series. Apple users

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<v Speaker 1>are going to get the feature later this year. And

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<v Speaker 1>this is really interesting because we've seen now the progression

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<v Speaker 1>of Netflix going from saying they would never let you

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<v Speaker 1>download shows to now making it easier than ever to

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<v Speaker 1>download shows. I think this makes life a lot easier

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<v Speaker 1>for the casual Netflix viewer, which you know, if you

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<v Speaker 1>watch a show, you set it up and next thing

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<v Speaker 1>you know, you've got the next.

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<v Speaker 2>One available to watch.

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<v Speaker 1>But for someone like me, I'm going to go through

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<v Speaker 1>and pretty much download all the shows in a series anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>so I'm gonna have all my phone.

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<v Speaker 2>But depending on how much storage you have, this can

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<v Speaker 2>be really handy.

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<v Speaker 1>Finally, today, Amazon has an easy way for you to

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<v Speaker 1>earn a ten dollars credit for Prime Day.

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<v Speaker 2>Which is happening next week.

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<v Speaker 1>All you have to do is spend ten dollars this

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<v Speaker 1>week at Whole Foods.

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<v Speaker 2>So here's how it works.

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<v Speaker 1>The promotion runs July eleventh through seventeenth. Basically, you have

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<v Speaker 1>to be an Amazon Prime Member, You go into Whole Foods,

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<v Speaker 1>you spend ten dollars in a single transaction, you scan

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<v Speaker 1>your Prime code at checkout, and then you're going to

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<v Speaker 1>get an automatic credit to use it Amazon on Prime Day,

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<v Speaker 1>which is on Monday, July sixteenth, and it runs through

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<v Speaker 1>a portion of the day on Tuesday July seventeenth.

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<v Speaker 2>So if you haven't used your prime.

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<v Speaker 1>Code yet, this is basically the QR code that Amazon

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<v Speaker 1>assigns you. It's kind of like a phone number that

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<v Speaker 1>you would use at a Raufs or something like that.

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<v Speaker 1>You can find that in your Whole Foods app or

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<v Speaker 1>your Amazon app. It does take a one time setup

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<v Speaker 1>to do it, but otherwise it's pretty easy to find.

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<v Speaker 1>And then once you do that, you can also link

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<v Speaker 1>in your phone number as well. So if you just

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<v Speaker 1>want to go to the checkout and use your phone

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<v Speaker 1>number and not have them scan the prime code app,

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<v Speaker 1>you can do that too. I've got all the details

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<v Speaker 1>on my website on how to do that. It's richontech

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<v Speaker 1>dot tv. You only have to do it once. I've

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<v Speaker 1>already tried out my prime code inside the Whole food Store.

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<v Speaker 2>It was very easy to use.

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<v Speaker 1>They asked me at checkout, they scanned it on my phone,

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<v Speaker 1>and I saved a dollar twenty five off my order,

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<v Speaker 1>which was about ten percent off of whatever items were

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<v Speaker 1>on sale. Thanks so much for listening, and if you

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<v Speaker 1>I love reading the reviews. Many of them are positive,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm Rich Damiro.

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<v Speaker 1>You can find links to everything I talk about at

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