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Netflix Is Now Available Around the World

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Re: Netflix Is Now Available Around the World

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Post by foldor »

forcer wrote: post #68

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.

I can confirm it from a different perspective. I'm in Canada, and use VPN's to get Netflix shows from the US/UK depending on what I want to watch, and where it's located.

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Post by cguess »

forcer wrote: post #68

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.

It does. I have a US account and can VPN into any country to get their catalogue.

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Post by Shebanator »

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…

youtube?

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Post by fernandotakai »

davej wrote: post #70
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.

hah, that's actually interesting: i've been switching to netflix ireland for the past weeks because it has some unique stuff (like the last season of Archer).

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Post by Pxtl »

forcer wrote: post #68

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.

Yes. I used to use unblock-us to access American Netflix content in Canada.

They don't care where you pay your bill, they care where your IP address is.

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Post by jfroma »

devhxinc wrote: post #65

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…

As far as I know netflix has an open appliance for ISP [1] (internet service providers). I think most of the ISP will care about this when the usage increase, because it will reduce the upstream bandwitch usage.

I haven't dig into it but I am pretty sure that even here in Argentina, ISP are using this thing, because it works incredible fast for HD content. Youtube might use something similar.

[1]: https://openconnect.netflix.com/

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Post by hellomc »

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.

I doubt it will change. Content producers don't want to give away content to an all-you-can-eat service. It's expensive to produce the material, so they need to milk it at every level.

In terms of content quality, Netflix (and their competitors) are the equivalent of a free-to-air TV channel with occasional big ticket titles that they likely blow their budget on.

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