Netflix in Japan

[Coligny]

Available since today...

For those who always dreamed of having to pay a monthly fee to rewatch "the shining"

1 month free...

[wuchan]

Just get Amazon prime and watch Jeremy Clarkson complain about cars you could never afford. That and they have all the same movies.

[Coligny]

Been prime member for a few years, amazon prime video should start in september for japan... But not yet available it seems..

Soo, basically you are recomending the same shit but with a topping of unavailability...

Brilliant... Do you have a newsletter to subscribe to ?

[Grumpy Gramps]

Made a Netflix account today to cross-check against wifey's Hulu, as our WDTV-box has the app anyway and the app is currently in English. Haven't seen anything I'd want to watch, though. But then I am sure, wifey will want to keep it after the free month is over

[kurogane]

If the availability is like Netflix Canada vs. Netflix USA then the offerings will be slim, depending on your TV tastes: lots of B Run Horror/Sci-Fi/20dumbthing comedy films and TV series and brain searingly boring documentaries, and surprisingly little of what you would call normal movies and TV. I worked my way through Netflix Canada in a few months, but at $8 per month it's hardly worth cancelling, though I eventually did. My impression was one of overwhelming mediocrity, but friends that like whatever they are told to watch seem to like it, and for that price it does offer at least something on a cold wet night at home.

One bright point about a Netflix Japan would be they might dredge up some of the cool TV Dramas and movies from the late 80s and 90s, but I wouldn't bet on that given how pissy Japanese media companies get about broadcast rights.

[Coligny]

Hulu, finally found the chinglish wabsite...

Awww YESSSSSS Daß boot dubbed in Macedonian... Always wanted to pay for this...

Yurgen Prochnow is sooo hot when he shout in nazi uniform...

[dimwit]

I worked my way through Netflix Canada in a few months, but at $8 per month it's hardly worth cancelling, though I eventually did. My impression was one of overwhelming mediocrity, but friends that like whatever they are told to watch seem to like it, and for that price it does offer at least something on a cold wet night at home.

My brother back in Toronto loves Netflix, but I don't know how much of that is just a reflection of the how much he hated the old CRTC's bundling rules.

[kurogane]

It really depends on tastes in TV it seems. I just found the offerings limited enough that I wasn't getting all that much from it, but it seems lots of people like it well enough to pay $8 a month, as did I. $8 is pretty cheap, after all, especially if like your brother and I you've given up on cable and broadcast TV. BTW, the Cdn Netflix limits are also CRTC work: it's the cultural content firewall thingy, so you end up with 3 different versions of the Beachcombers, lots of badly dubbed Quebec movies, and a whole lot of US TV you don't get. I am not against cultural protection rules but it makes for pretty limited TV it seems. I pretty much just use the online streaming stuff these days, like Tubeplus.

[Coligny]

Wonder how many paypal complaint they will tally for pulling this shit...

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I really didn't care and planed to stay subscribed in case something intredasting came up...

But the little "also:fuck you and try to call us to cancel" from that email was a bit too much...

[Coligny]

PAYPAL CLAIM GRANTED...

Coligny: 1
Netflix: 0

I was expecting a "Shanna, they bought their tickets, they knew what they were getting into. I say, let 'em crash."