Netflix Is Now Available Around the World

Re:Netflix Is Now Available Around the World by tracker1 on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @01:47PM (#10852627)

How much is the TV license in the UK? If it's reasonable I'd be tempted to pay it for iPlayer access. Honestly, I'd rather just torrent everything, but I do pay for Amazon, Netflix, Hulu and often cable access that I don't use (guilt is a powerful driver).

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Re:Netflix Is Now Available Around the World by hellomc on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @02:13PM (#10852815)

The BBC is discouraged from producing its own content, so a lot of the content is made by third parties and the BBC doesn't have the rights to broadcast them outside the UK. That's why you get BBC branded channels in different countries because those channels have to compete to buy the rights. There's lots of other things too, like music rights, sports rights etc. Means the content has to be redone.

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Re:Netflix Is Now Available Around the World by smackfu on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @01:50PM (#10852642)

Around $18 per month, at current exchange rates.

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Re:Netflix Is Now Available Around the World by atonse on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @02:05PM (#10852757)

I'd happily pay even $25 a month for legal, good quality access to the BBC's programming.

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Re:Netflix Is Now Available Around the World by lucaspiller on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @02:15PM (#10852828)

A large chunk of that goes towards the broadcast infrastructure, so it could potentially be less for an Internet only version.

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