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Anyone knows if the movies/tvshows have original sound and have additional subtitle languages ?
Yes, English is always available, plus localized sound and subtitles where available. E.g. Austria & Germany have English & German tracks, while Netherlands only have English audio and English and Dutch subtitles.
I'm French, and even though Netflix doesn't have as much contents as it does in the US, I really like using it. I feel that I am supporting something that will make media companies rethink their distribution and pricing means.
Things I like most about netflix so far: family profiles (not for parental control, but more because each one has their list, can resume a movie etc), I can force the quality to excellent (our satellite link has a big bandwidth but the latency often confuses the streaming services, ending up with big square pixels), current time in the movie is shared across devices, onboarding is good, recommendations so far have been excellent.
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/08/netflix-linux-html5-suppo...
Very curious about what's happening to their share price at the moment: http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=NFLX+Interactive#symbol=N... Sounds like a big multi-country European launch should be a good thing, but their stock's really nose dived this week. Anyone know why?
Very curious about what's happening to their share price at the moment: http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=NFLX+Interactive#symbol=N... Sounds like a big multi-country European launch should be a good thing, but their stock's really nose dived this week. Anyone know why?
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As an EU citizen aren't you allowed to register for the UK netflix service? Pretty sure they need to treat all EU citizens the same.
Not really, they still filter by country IP, so even if you register with the UK version you'll only see the local library without a VPN connection.
How will Europe's ISPs react to the bandwidth increase? Better than the USA? Or will they also pressure netflix for a cut?
Prices for ADSL/cabel are pretty much the same for the same speed regardless of provider, so I think the ISP have just found a pricing level that allows them to make a profit and not care about Netflix. If anything Netflix are most likely pushing customers to higher speeds, which costs a bit more.
The Danish version of RIAA/MPAA have tried to force the ISP to pay then money for carrying streaming services, but that doesn't seem to be going anywhere.
It seems that House of Cards is not available in Switzerland and France (at least French part) because a French TV channel got the rights. Pretty sad. Source : http://www.letemps.ch/Page/Uuid/7d197506-3ef1-11e4-a188-24a0... (in French and paywalled, just change your UA to Googlebot)
As an EU citizen aren't you allowed to register for the UK netflix service? Pretty sure they need to treat all EU citizens the same.
> ... the Treaty does not affect the existence of industrial property rights granted pursuant to the legislation of the Member States. Accordingly, national legislation on the acquisition, transfer and extinction of such rights is lawful.
So IPR can be restricted nationally. However:
> The second principle is that an industrial property right is exhausted when a product has been lawfully distributed in the market of a Member State by the owner of the right or with his or her consent. Thereafter the owner of the right may not oppose the importation of the product into any Member State where it was first marketed.
To me, this is clearly the case of VPNs: you are lawfully acquiring access to the content in the country where it is sold, and then consuming it in another country.
Very curious about what's happening to their share price at the moment: http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=NFLX+Interactive#symbol=N... Sounds like a big multi-country European launch should be a good thing, but their stock's really nose dived this week. Anyone know why?
Really though, it can be anything and if you look at the stock on a longer time period this really isn't all that big of a deal.