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Re: Netflix launches in Germany, Austria and Switzerland within 3 days

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Post by newoneyeah »

For those looking for a solution that will allow them to watch e.g. the American version of Netflix (which has the largest selection), check out https://unlocator.com/ or http://www.unblock-us.com/. The latter was a bit unreliable for me, whereas the former works well.

To save money, create an American Netflix account instead of a Netflix account in your native country. The way to sign up for the American account is to use one of the VPN services above, change your DNS settings as explained on the VPN service's website, and then go to netflix.com. You should then see the American version and be able to create an account there.

Re: Netflix launches in Germany, Austria and Switzerland within 3 days

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Post by newoneyeah »

staffan wrote: post #35
davedx wrote: post #28

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?

News got out today that contentowners are pressing Netflix to stop people from using VPN to get other regions content.

Do you have a link to that story?

Re: Netflix launches in Germany, Austria and Switzerland within 3 days

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Post by junto »

tmrmn wrote: post #12
lmedinas wrote: post #3

Anyone knows if the movies/tvshows have original sound and have additional subtitle languages ?

So far i've only watched a few shows and one movie. They all had the _original_ audio track and german subtitles as an option, but not necessarily an english audio track.

As long as I can watch English movies in English, rather than being forced to watch English movies in dubbed German I'll be a happy camper.

Hopefully this gives the German terrestrial channels a kick up the butt. ARD, ZDF, RTL and ProSieben still are too lazy to broadcast both audio tracks (original English and the dubbed German) over cable.

I should get a discount on my TV license. In fact everyone should get a discount, just because German TV is so bad. It's like torture. Except for Tatort. They get a free pass.

Re: Netflix launches in Germany, Austria and Switzerland within 3 days

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Post by newoneyeah »

manmal wrote: post #5
lmedinas wrote: post #3

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.

> English is always available

Not in the Danish version of Netflix, AFAIK. There you can typically choose between three or four (horribly translated) Nordic languages.

If you want English subtitles, one solution could be to use a VPN service such as Unlocator.

Re: Netflix launches in Germany, Austria and Switzerland within 3 days

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Post by MrBuddyCasino »

German copycat portals for whatever usually suck, so I was pretty psyched to hear Netflix was launching, only to then find out that their selection in Germany is mediocre at best. Here is a comparison (in german):

http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/apps/netflix-test-information...

I'm seriously considering a US VPN, guess thats the country with the best catalogue. Any experience regarding potential bandwidth issues?

Re: Netflix launches in Germany, Austria and Switzerland within 3 days

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Post by junto »

Spiegel Online has a comparison of online video providers (In German):

http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/apps/netflix-alternative-maxd...

I welcome these video services here in German. I'm extremely happy to get original audio versions (OV), which the terrestrial channels butcher with German dubbing (with no original audio track offered).

I'll be voting with my cash and the next time Kabel Deutschland contact me again about their shitty cable TV service I'll tell them again why I don't want it. I really don't want to watch Pulp Fiction in German, however funny it sounds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELLL_qIl80Q

Re: Netflix launches in Germany, Austria and Switzerland within 3 days

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Post by newoneyeah »

hackerboos wrote: post #24
jre wrote: post #20

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.

Use a VPN service (see my comment elsewhere on this page), register for the American service, and then, on the VPN service's website, change your Netflix region to UK or another region.

Re: Netflix launches in Germany, Austria and Switzerland within 3 days

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Post by Quequau »

manmal wrote: post #4

Austrian here. We suffer from a severely restricted library on Netflix, but there is a loophole: If you connect via a VPN in another country (e.g. US, Switzerland, Netherlands, Germany,..), you can view the country's respective content. Very clever of them :)

Did you run into any trouble with payment?

I tried and was unable to use my credit because of some security restriction configuration. As I have never changed anything in that regard, I concluded that this must be a default setting.

Re: Netflix launches in Germany, Austria and Switzerland within 3 days

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Post by Quequau »

newoneyeah wrote: post #47
hackerboos wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Use a VPN service (see my comment elsewhere on this page), register for the American service, and then, on the VPN service's website, change your Netflix region to UK or another region.

Netflix support straight out told me to do this... and I wonder about it.

I'm sort of at the point where I don't see a whole lot of difference between just torrenting whatever it is I want to watch and using a VPN to circumvent copyright restrictions... except using bittorrent is cheaper and more amenable to my crappy unreliable Internet service.

Re: Netflix launches in Germany, Austria and Switzerland within 3 days

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Post by alfet »

MrBuddyCasino wrote: post #45

German copycat portals for whatever usually suck, so I was pretty psyched to hear Netflix was launching, only to then find out that their selection in Germany is mediocre at best. Here is a comparison (in german): http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/apps/netflix-test-information... I'm seriously considering a US VPN, guess thats the country with the best catalogue. Any experience regarding potential bandwidth issues?

I'd just use something like ProxMate, I use it from Argentina and it works wonders. I'd use a VPN por privacy reasons but for now i just enable the extension when I want to use it.
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