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Re:Netflix to expand to Germany, France and Switzerland by r00fus on Wednesday May 21, 2014 @04:56PM (#7780726)
I dunno - while there maybe French subscribers who would kill for US TV shows in english only, maybe there's the issue of either subtitling all their content for German and French at least, dubbing some or all of it, and likely adding French-specific content.

Just wondering whether I'll be able to get the French Netflix content without using VPN and a local CC.

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Re:Netflix to expand to Germany, France and Switzerland by jordigh on Wednesday May 21, 2014 @05:00PM (#7780750)
The subs or dubs (France prefers dubs, right?) typically already exist.

See this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7780650

As for needing local credit cards, hopefully some day bitcoins or something like it can truly enable international commerce.

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Re:Netflix to expand to Germany, France and Switzerland by Gmo on Wednesday May 21, 2014 @05:19PM (#7780854)
Well, France not so much prefers as is forced to listen to dubbed.

But this is (slowly) changing, you now start to have major TV channels broadcasting TV series and Films in both French dubbed version and Original Version with subtitles. Not all of the channels, and not all of the content, but this is progressing.

Same goes for movies at the cinema (which was already the case in Paris but less in smaller towns),

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