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Netflix Streaming Now Available in 190 Countries

That happened quickly. During his CES keynote yesterday, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announced that the company had launched its streaming video service in 130 new countries yesterday, bringing the company's reach to 190 countries world wide. Netflix has yet to launch in China, but that's something the company's hard at work on, but could take significant time due to the country's censorship of "objectionable" material.

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Hastings added that Netflix streaming also "won't be available in Crimea, North Korea, and Syria due to US government restrictions on American companies."

The CEO also noted that most of Netflix's original content will be available in all countries, with the exception of countries where Netflix doesn't own the distribution rights to series like House of Cards or Orange is The New Black. Distribution of this content will of course lean heavily on Netflix's global Open Connect Content Delivery Network.

Hastings also reiterated Netflix's intention to continue pushing hard into original series. According to the CEO, the company is working on "31 new and returning original series, two dozen original feature films and documentaries, a wide range of stand-up comedy specials, and 30 original kids' series."

Netflix already has 70 million subscribers, a number that's certain to soar quickly with this week's launches.

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Jim_in_VA (banned)
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and the stock

got a huge bump to reflect that news ... oh, and fuck you North Korea
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70 Million Subscribers?

Wow. What a difference a few years makes. It doesn't seem that long ago that folks were fretting that Netflix wouldn't be able to survive content owner's licensing shenanigans and efforts from last mile operators to bleed them dry with interconnect fees.

Since there's a lot of account sharing, there could be 100M folks watching Netflix content. Kind of makes you wonder if Netflix will eventually become a monopolistic problem child.

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Re: 70 Million Subscribers?

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said by rradina:

...fretting that Netflix wouldn't be able to survive content owner's licensing shenanigans...

so that $5-600 million a month going in, with a large chunk going out to other content rights holders and creators, as well as building/filling their own content vaults.
The crunch will come when there aren't more potential customers in more new markets and old customers grow tired of increasing fees and stagnant libraries.
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There is still Amazon Prime, HBO and even Hulu.
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Re: 70 Million Subscribers?

I used to have an extensive playlist of Prime movies. I bet at least 70% of them are not Prime anymore ..... So much for Amazon ..
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Remember when Microsoft said that during the FTC/DOJ anti-trust trial? While that was true, Microsoft's overwhelming market share still gave them the ability to create barriers.
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Netflix Price Hikes Now Available in 190 Countries

Can't wait for the giant, global megacorp to start turning the screws on profit and abuse their market position.

I don't want my service provider to have a conflict of interest by offering their own services.

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Re: Netflix Price Hikes Now Available in 190 Countries

They have a lot of customers because they are a cheaper option to inflated sport subsidized broadcast tv. They start the same hike and people will drop them too. They add sports and raise prices for the same reason and I WILL drop them.
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Re: Netflix Price Hikes Now Available in 190 Countries

Economies of scale should help keep Netflix content costs down and improve profits. Yeah there are countless companies that only care about mega profits at the expense of improving service or keeping consumer costs reasonably low (airline industry) but Netflix so far hasn't demonstrated that. More streaming services are popping up and probably will globally too, keeping them in check.

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When Netflix releases content like "Making a Murderer", this is expected

Netflix sure seems to be knocking it out of the park on making quality content.... and delivering value for money.

No wonder they are growing.

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Good! So more people can watch the same crappy horror movies I watch

And talk about how bad they are on IMDB.
/Yes. I really do like watching crap
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Re: Good! So more people can watch the same crappy horror movies I watch

Netflix has decent indie/foreign/obscure content and a few hit originals. If you just want mainstream movies, PPV or HBO Now like services is about it (for more $).

Always thought Netflix should offer recent movies via PPV separately at a slightly lower price than other PPV services given their scale, especially now it's global. Am surprised they haven't even trialed it by now.
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Middleman content provider or content creator?

Netflix looks to be moving in to that super conglomerate category like Comcast, with the conflicts of interest making them untrustworthy moving forward.

Comcast gets hammered for both delivering(cable systems) and creating content(NBC & other content creators). Will Netflix be treated with the same suspicion and demands for being broken up?

Netflix acts as a 3rd party content aggregator for content created by others and now also as a content creator. Ultimately this leads to conflicts of interest as to who gets priority treatment.

Will any of the tech press start calling them out on this conflict going forward or will they continue to get a free pass as some poor victim of the cable companies?
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Re: Middleman content provider or content creator?

said by IluvMoney:

Netflix looks to be moving in to that super conglomerate category like Comcast, with the conflicts of interest making them untrustworthy moving forward.

Comcast gets hammered for both delivering(cable systems) and creating content(NBC & other content creators). Will Netflix be treated with the same suspicion and demands for being broken up?

Netflix acts as a 3rd party content aggregator for content created by others and now also as a content creator. Ultimately this leads to conflicts of interest as to who gets priority treatment.

Will any of the tech press start calling them out on this conflict going forward or will they continue to get a free pass as some poor victim of the cable companies?

What Netflix is doing was done by HBO way back in the 80s. There is no conflict of interest for a network that starts out buying 3rd party owned content, to then start ordering original productions. Every single pay tv service and basic cable channel has done this as well. Again, for years before there ever was a Netflix.

Netflix creating originals is due entirely to the studios (the ones that own, or are owned by, comglomerates that own cable & pay tv channels), selling recent theatricals to pay channels under exclusive licenses which block competitors from also acquiring the same. This is not a new phenomenom, selling exclusive pay tv rights to pay services has been done for decades. They (the studios) are also attacking NF by refusing to sell older programming to them that they place out on the market for other monthly subscription services to buy.

The hate Comcast gets is due entirely to how they treat their customers and run their systems, not because they own a studio that creates content for themselves. Netflix is an independent company that does 2 things, rent dvds thru the mail, and operates an internet streaming service. Comcast is a mega conglomerate owning multiple businesses.

The 2 are simply not analogous.
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North Korea

Seems like the US should encourage companies like Netflix to do business in North Korea. It can't hurt us to expose their people to Western content.

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Old news on being global

They were global when they were outside of the US.
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"global"

Yeah, and Canadian Netflix is still largely full of garbage when compared to the mothership.
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Did other subscribers get a bizarre marketing email from them yesterday?

I've been a Netflix subscriber forever (I even get a disc in the mail here and there because streaming doesn't cover everything), but yesterday when this news was announced I got an email with the subject line: "Netflix is now available in Bangladesh!" and offering me a 1-month free trial. Huh?