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Re:Netflix to expand to Germany, France and Switzerland by ardemue on Wednesday May 21, 2014 @01:45PM (#7779610)
Where do you get this impression? I've lived in France my whole life and most people I know try to avoid subtitles as much as possible. Most of the foreign TV contents are dubbed anyway, except on a few channels (Arte).

This may be less true for the new generation accustomed to watching subtitled TV shows on the internet, instead of waiting for a few years to get them in French on TV.

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Re:Netflix to expand to Germany, France and Switzerland by philjohn on Wednesday May 21, 2014 @01:52PM (#7779667)
This.

I grew up in Belgium, and there were two versions of films on - V.O. (Version Originale) which had two sets of subtitles (Flemish and French) and V.F. (Version Francaise).

The cinema usually had far more Flemish speaking people in the VO screenings than French speaking, so I assume they went to the VF ones.

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Re:Netflix to expand to Germany, France and Switzerland by Gmo on Wednesday May 21, 2014 @05:22PM (#7780867)
This is definitely changing, but slowly, yes.
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