Movie Monday: Battle of the Vid Apps

As I progress through my Ph.D., I keep my 📱iPhone📱 on ✈️Airplane Mode📳 more frequently, so I don’t 📴call, text or use wifi.

• D is for: DISPO * Dissertation * hopeful Doctor🎓
• D DON’Ts are for: Disturbances * Distractions🚫

While I ✨concentrate, I still play background 👂🏽noise, but I don’t always rely on my online📻 🎧music or 🎬videos. Sometimes I also stray away from my own played-out 💽collection…

My DVDs🎥 and digital videos📹 to the rescue! 👌🏽

During my study sessions📚 or school road 🚘trips or any foreseeable 🚀flights, I’d prefer to play a movie straight from my phone without needing an online signal, like some video application programs promise.

Not all of them have worked 🔇offline, though…

M-GO (e.g., 💃🏻Selena🎤)

• Pros: can play online
• Cons: loads⏳ and returns to 🏡home🏠 screen without playing at all offline 👎

 Vimeo (e.g., Everything Before Us)

• Pros: sometimes plays online and offline
• Cons: load delays or no-plays from some computer browsers (I have 🌎Internet🌎 🌏Explorer, Mozilla🔥 🐺Firefox, Google Chrome, 🍎Apple🍏 Safari) and phone☎️ app 😁

Amazon Instant Video (e.g., 👙Toned Up)

• Pros: always plays = 😅happy camper⛺️ (hey, maybe I even can watch while camping without wireless connection!)
• Cons: none whatsoever … Sharp, beautiful motion pictures on the screen every single time ~ no loading shown!  👏🏽

After several attempts for the first two apps, I’m still not satisfied with them. Fortunately, Amazon‘s app has consistently come to not disappoint! 👊🏽