Still not it India or China, all of Asia (except for Japan) and Africa, isn't what I would call around the world...
Netflix Is Now Available Around the World
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#142What 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…
Amazon has a long way to go. As far as I can tell prime or Amazon Fire TV is only available in a few countries.
I think they needs to go global quick, or they will not survive against netflix.
As it is now, the internet is a rather segregated place. Many media sites are only available in the US. "This is not available in your country".
I wonder if a big reason why netflix decided to make original content in the first place, is that its a huge pain to go global with content with regional rights.
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#143Still not it India or China, all of Asia (except for Japan) and Africa, isn't what I would call around the world...
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#144enjoy Netflix original series including Marvel’s Daredevil and Marvel’s Jessica Jones, Narcos, Sense8, Grace and Frankie, and Marco Polo House of Cards notably missing. Lithuanian here, great that we have it now, but have no idea why House of Cards is not available.
Also Orange is the New Black.
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#145My Samsung TV still doesn't show me the Netflix app. As far as I understand they didn't show it in the countries where Netflix was not available. I hope that they will enable it now that it is.
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#146But you probably can't tell your friend that is from another country to watch what you watched last night because it is more then likely not available in their country.
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#147What 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…
Maybe a stupid questions but what if they disrupted not just TV but also cinema? I assume that the distribution of films around the world is more limited than we think. At some point when Netflix has a much larger subscriber base, it may make more sense for films to be released directly to Netflix for global consumption. They could even be clever about it and have it only open for "live showings" at specific hours or…
>Maybe a stupid questions but what if they disrupted not just TV but also cinema?
They are trying. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2 is being released simultaneously in theaters and on Netflix. Some chains complained and are refusing to show it.
But honestly, I don't see it. Cinema is $10-15/person/visit, and Netflix is $10/mo for an entire library of content. Profit margins for Hollywood aren't that great - so how do you bridge that price gap? How do you justify spending $200 million on Force Awakens and hope to recoup that from Netflix fees? You can't.
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't approach Netflix as "I want to see this movie so I go here," so much as "I want to watch something, so I'll pick from here." I'm never lacking a choice to watch, even with fairly specific criteria in mind. If I know exactly what I want to watch (and don't get lucky enough to find it on Amazon/Netflix/Hulu) I pay for PPV. I don't expect magic for <$10/mo, especially when the going rate for a one-off viewing is…
I don't approach Netflix as "I want to see this movie so I go here," so much as "I want to watch something, so I'll pick from here." I'm never lacking a choice to watch, even with fairly specific criteria in mind. Yeah. My main beef with Netflix is that I'd like to just sort content based on the 5-star rating. I'll rarely want to watch something that is less than a 2.0. And I'll consider just about anything that is 4…
Same here. I also want Steam to let me see the average reviews of games that it shows me on the main screen. I only buy games that are "Mostly Positive" and above, and it's very grating to have to click every title to see that information.
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#149In 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.
I wish it was "in europe", but it looks like "western europe" :(
works well in Greece (east-southern?) but the available content is dated, a disappointment really.
Re: Netflix Is Now Available Around the World
#150What 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…
Amazon has a long way to go. As far as I can tell prime or Amazon Fire TV is only available in a few countries. I think they needs to go global quick, or they will not survive against netflix. As it is now, the internet is a rather segregated place. Many media sites are only available in the US. "This is not available in your country". I wonder if a big reason why netflix decided to make original content in the first…
>Amazon has a long way to go.
Indeed. Its OK at the moment given that its piggy-backing off the Prime subscription. Without that I doubt I'd subscribe.