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Re: Netflix Is Now Available Around the World

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Post by smackfu »

rconti wrote: post #56
LoSboccacc wrote: post #26

In europe we just get netflix lite, with old and uninteresting stuff sparkled with some original content and random rares. I hope someday we'll get this netflix you all talk about.

Netflix's catalog(ue) is a shadow of its former self. I'm a Netflix subscriber, and can pretty much guarantee that any movie I attempt to watch will NOT be available on Netflix streaming. I have somewhat better luck with the previous episodes of American TV shows.

Well, they've certainly pivoted their focus from movies to TV shows. But most of their "good" movies were part of the Starz license, and that expired years ago now.

Re: Netflix Is Now Available Around the World

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Post by jedberg »

smackfu wrote: post #57
jedberg wrote: post #42

To everyone freaking out about the map not showing all the countries, it doesn't appear to be updated. If you read the press release it is available in every country in the world except Syria, Crimea, North Korea and China.

I'm surprised someone considers Crimea a country. I thought it was part of Ukraine, and now is part of Russia. Or if you dispute that, it is still a part of Ukraine.

Yeah the way they worded it was awkward but equally awkward would be "and the area of Ukraine known as Crimea"

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Post by Tunecrew »

In my experience, Netflix is horrid outside the US - a much more limited catalogue and a lot of mismatched foreign language content.

I live in Jamaica and had subscribed to the version that was legitimately available to us w/o using a VPN or proxy or similar service.

The result was twofold:

- less content than on the US version (but the same price)

- a whole lot of content available in overdubbed Spanish only or with baked-on subtitles.

Guess they don't realize that south of the border there are countries that speak English (as well as French, Dutch and Portuguese).

Our cable companies have the same problem trying to legitimately license content from US broadcast and cable networks - they want to dump the "Latin American" feed on us...

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Post by aritraghosh007 »

I have always wondered why couldn't YouTube dominate over Netflix's territory? Mostly what NFLX has is content which makes the barrier to entry not that hard but YouTube has more publishers/creators and with a wider reach it can easily reign over this market but quite surprisingly it doesn't.

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Post by devhxinc »

I wonder what the user experience will be since a good experience relies on content loading quickly through CDNs. Netflix mainly uses AWS, Akamai, Limelight and Level 3 along with its own CDN to deliver content. The majority of the new countries do not have local CDN edge nodes. (This is super frustrating when developing for African and some Asian countries)

It seems Netflix has an uphill battle ahead with regards to content licensing and content delivery.

Re: Netflix Is Now Available Around the World

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Post by tracker1 »

atonse wrote: post #5

This is awesome news. Now if only BBC's iPlayer would become global and allow us non-brits to pay for it (effectively subsidizing the TV license maybe?), that would be heaven.

How much is the TV license in the UK? If it's reasonable I'd be tempted to pay it for iPlayer access. Honestly, I'd rather just torrent everything, but I do pay for Amazon, Netflix, Hulu and often cable access that I don't use (guilt is a powerful driver).

Re: Netflix Is Now Available Around the World

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Post by smackfu »

sailfast wrote: post #43

What is missing in a lot of these comments is acknowledging that Netflix may become the largest global "television" network in the world as adoption increases. They have original content lined up and control those rights, and they will continue to expand their reach with that content. Whether they add the "same" streaming content as they have purchased from other providers in the US is not the point here - the big im…

Essentially NetFlix is paying their producer partners for worldwide rights, while conventional US networks only pay for US rights, and the producers sell the other country rights separately.

But I'm not sure any of the partners in the conventional setup have a reason to change. US networks don't care about worldwide rights. Producers don't care who is paying them for the rights. Other country networks like having content to license.

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Post by forcer »

Can someone confirm whether signing up to e.g. Netflix in UK and using VPN with USA ip will give US selection of the movies? I signed up in USA and regularly switching to UK netflix for some EU tv-series which are not available in USA. If that works, it would make the subscription quite interesting even for the new countries which just got released.

Re: Netflix Is Now Available Around the World

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Post by smackfu »

tracker1 wrote: post #66
atonse wrote: post #5

This is awesome news. Now if only BBC's iPlayer would become global and allow us non-brits to pay for it (effectively subsidizing the TV license maybe?), that would be heaven.

How much is the TV license in the UK? If it's reasonable I'd be tempted to pay it for iPlayer access. Honestly, I'd rather just torrent everything, but I do pay for Amazon, Netflix, Hulu and often cable access that I don't use (guilt is a powerful driver).

Around $18 per month, at current exchange rates.

Re: Netflix Is Now Available Around the World

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Post by davej »

LoSboccacc wrote: post #26

In europe we just get netflix lite, with old and uninteresting stuff sparkled with some original content and random rares. I hope someday we'll get this netflix you all talk about.

Yeah, considering switching to Netflix US + VPN. Only decent content here (Ireland) is the Netflix Originals stuff.
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