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The Analysis is in – We have the list of titles that you cannot download directly from Netflix – but you CAN download with PlayOn Desktop or PlayOn Cloud! The list is long…but here are some highlights. Use PlayOn to download Marvel's Luke Cage, Daredevil and Jessica Jones, The Walking Dead, Sons of Anarchy, Friends, Gilmore Girls, Lost, The West Wing, The X-Files, Sherlock, Glee, Family Guy, Arrested Development. And, PlayOn recordings don’t expire like the Netflix ones do once they have been downloaded.

Netflix Doesn't Let You Download All The Titles, But You Can Download Them With PlayOn

Many TV networks titles are not available to download from Netflix directly including shows from ABC, Fox, FX, BBC, Marvel, Disney, most AMC, A&E. But again, you can record and download all Netflix shows from ABC, Fox, FX, BBC, Marvel, Disney, AMC, A&E with PlayOn. Download to any device and recordings never expire. You can be watching downloaded Netflix recordings offline on your iPad, PC/Mac, or TV in no time, anytime, anywhere.

As for movie titles – Disney films (and Marvel and Lucasfilm which they own) – are not available for download directly from Netflix.  There are a bunch of Disney movies and more to come in the beginning of 2017 (including Star Wars: The Force Awakens) that you may will want to download – and PlayOn will let you download all of the movies available on Netflix today and the titles that will be expiring soon.

More Than Just A Streaming Recorder For Netflix
In addition to Netflix, PlayOn Desktop also streams and record from over 100+ channels like Hulu, HBO Go, HBO Now, Hulu, Yahoo View, Comedy Central, Amazon Video, and more. PlayOn Cloud currently has a smaller subset of channels on top of Netflix to record from -- including Hulu, Amazon Video, ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, HBO NOW, PBS, and the list is still growing.

Download These Netflix Shows  (Not Available For Download From Netflix)
Here are some of the most popular shows you can download to any device with PlayOn Desktop or the PlayOn Cloud app:

Ally McBeal
American Crime
American Dad!
American Horror Story
Angel
Animaniacs
Archer
Arrested Development
Being Human (U.S.)
Bill Nye the Science Guy
Bob's Burgers
Bones
Broadchurch
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Burn Notice
Call the Midwife
Dark Matter
F is for Family
Family Guy
Firefly
Friends
Fuller House
Futurama
Galavant
Garfunkel and Oates
Gilmore Girls
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
Glee
Gotham
Grey's Anatomy
Hell on Wheels
How I Met Your Mother
How to Get Away with Murder
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Justice League
Last Man Standing
Lie to Me
Life
Lilyhammer
Lost
Magic City
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Marvel's Daredevil
Marvel's Jessica Jones
Marvel's Luke Cage
Merlin
New Girl
Once Upon a Time
Phineas and Ferb
Portlandia
Prison Break
Private Practice
Quantico
Raising Hope
Robin Hood
Roswell
Salem
Scrubs
Shameless (U.S.)
Sherlock
Sons of Anarchy
Spartacus
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
The Batman
The Cleveland Show
The Following
The House of Cards Trilogy (BBC)
The Office (U.K.)
The Secret Life of the American Teenager
The Shannara Chronicles
The Walking Dead
The West Wing
The Wonder Years
The X-Files
Torchwood

Download These Netflix Movies (Not Available For Download From Netflix)
Here are some of the popular movies from Netflix that you can only download using PlayOn Desktop or the PlayOn Cloud mobile app:

A Life Less Ordinary
A Night at the Roxbury
Adventures in Babysitting
Aeon Flux
Amadeus
An Inconvenient Truth
Aziz Ansari: Dangerously Delicious
Babel
Bad Grandpa .5
Barton Fink
Basic Instinct
Batman
Beverly Hills Cop
Big Trouble in Little China
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
Black Sheep
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Brother Bear
Brother Bear 2
Can't Buy Me Love
Chaplin
Charlotte's Web (2006)
Charlotte's Web 2
Cheaper by the Dozen
Chicken Little
Cleopatra
Clueless
Corpse Bride
Crossroads
Cujo
D2: The Mighty Ducks
Defiance
Elizabethtown
Ernest Saves Christmas
Explorers
Failure to Launch
Fantasia
Fantasia 2000
Fantastic Four
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Flubber
Footloose
Forrest Gump
Galaxy Quest
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Grease
Grease 2
Grease: Live
Great Expectations
Grosse Pointe Blank
Hairspray
Hannibal
Hannibal Buress: Animal Furnace
Happy Valley
Hello Dolly!
Hey Arnold! The Movie
High School Musical
High School Musical 2
Honey I Shrunk the Kids
Honey We Shrunk Ourselves
Hope Floats
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Jackass 2.5
Jackass 3.5: The Unrated Movie
Jackass: Number Two
Je suis Charlie
Jim Gaffigan: Beyond the Pale
Judge Dredd
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox
Justice League: War
Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids
Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain
Kronk's New Groove
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
Lilo & Stitch
Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has A Glitch
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
Louis C.K.: Live at the Beacon Theater
Mean Girls
Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas
Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas
Miracle on 34th Street
Mission: Impossible III
Monster
Mr. Magoo
Mulan 2
Nick Offerman: American Ham
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Oldboy
Patton
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension
Piglet's Big Movie
Pirates of the Caribbean: Black Pearl
Pleasantville
Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World
Pooh's Grand Adventure
Pooh's Heffalump Movie
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Running Scared
Sahara
Saturday Night Fever
Saving Private Ryan
Scooby-Doo
Scrooged
Seventeen Again
Sixth Man
Sky High
Sleepy Hollow
Small Soldiers
Snake Eyes
Snow Day
Son of Batman
South Park: Bigger
Spies Like Us
Spy Hard
Star Trek: Nemesis
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Stardust
Stephen King's Thinner
Stitch! The Movie
Sunset Strip
Super Size Me
Sweeney Todd
Swordfish
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
Tarzan
Tarzan 2
The African Queen
The Amityville Horror
The Awakening
The Big Short
The Boys from Brazil
The Crucible
The Emperor's New Groove
The Endless Summer
The Fly
The Fox and the Hound 2
The French Connection II
The Gambler
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
The Girl Who Played with Fire
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Great Gatsby
The Hunted
The Hustler
The Italian Job
The Jungle Book
The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story
The Kite Runner
The Legend of Bagger Vance
The Little Prince
The Longest Yard
The Lovely Bones
The Machinist
The Newton Boys
The Recruit
The Ref
The Rock
The Saint
The Three Musketeers
The Usual Suspects
Three Fugitives
Three Kings
Tinker Bell
Titanic
Tommy Boy
Tora! Tora! Tora!
True Grit
Turner and Hooch
Twelve O'Clock High
Unforgiven
Van Wilder: Freshman Year
Waking Life
Wes Craven's New Nightmare
What About Bob?
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
White Christmas
Winnie the Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year
Working Girl
Zootopia