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It is worse in India. You see a lot of popular and lesser known titles on Prime and Netflix, and buy subscriptions to those only to realise the content isn't available in your country.

I basically feel Netflix to be a rip off, and Prime's value proposition is faster deliveries, better discounts and a few free Kindle books.

And despite trying to use these services for a long time, I am still a fan and a proponent of torrents for such consumption as I get all the content, on time, on my terms and can consume it in a way I like.

Music, is sorted. TV and Movies isn't.




I subscribed to prime once here in New Zealand and discovered that the UI (at least on PS4) displays everything, and only tells you that it's not available in your country when you try to play something.

As a pretty large portion of the stuff seemed to not be available here this made it basically unusable.


I just got Prime free with a new 2Degrees account, I haven’t struck that so maybe they’re hiding the inaccessible content now. In saying that though, the content that is accessible is fairly terrible compared to Netflix’s offerings.


In smaller European countries it's even worse:

- Even though the minimum wage here is half that of the UK, for some reason Netflix is more expensive, and has less selection.

- They have no content in the official language of the country, not even subtitles. When you go to the cinema, movies are dubbed or have subtitles.

- They push a lot of Russian language content, even though most people under 35 don't speak it, and it is not even a semi official language.

Amazon don't have operations here, you can sign up to Amazon Prime for video in another country, but it only shows their own content.


sounds like Baltic states?




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