The popular DVD-by-mail rental service Netflix is now also an online rental service. If you are a Netflix subscriber and have the Netflix App installed on your iPad, you can watch as many online movies as you like, as often as you like, as part of your subscription. But because the movies stream, rather than download, you have to be connected to the internet while watching. So if you have a long plane flight and wanted to be able to watch movies on iPad, or what if there is a weak Wi-Fi only? Is it possible to download movies from Netflix for watching offline? Here you can get some help.

The iTube Studio for Mac from iSkysoft is a great no-nonsense alternative solution. This app runs on Mac OS (Lion included), and allows you to download any web video from Netfilx, YouTube, Google Video, Facebook, Hulu and more.

After the installation of the iTube Studio for Mac, you then can see the download button once you play a Netflix movie on Safari, so you can just click it to download whenever you find a funny video story or some other videos.

Most of the Netflix movie may not the format iPad supported. So, you need convert the downloaded netflix movies to iPad format. Go  to the library of the iTube Studio and check the movies. Click convert at the bottom of the interface. The iTube Studio specailly provides iPad preset to make the output video look good on your iPad screen after the conversion.

After the conversion, you can transfer the output files to your Apple device via iTunes and watch the converted Netflix on iPad as you wish. Have fun.