The country Netflix thinks you are in determines what programs are available to you due to licensing rights, and it won't show you shows that aren't available in that country.
Sometimes that causes odd things - like Canada had the latest seasons of Dr Who and Archer at least 2 months before the UK and USA did.
the_siobhan wants us to subscribe to it. Personally I think the old Bay and its cohorts are a more convenient way to get TV.
The frustrating thing is that it won't show some stuff that's already been on in the UK on the UK site. The Walking Dead, for example, is available on both the US and German versions of the site, but despite 5 seasons have been shown in the UK it's not available at all. Ditto Supernatural - 9 seasons, all shown in the UK, but not on the UK site. Which is what makes the option of using subterfuge to make the site think you're based Elsewhere so tempting.
In a related matter; a while back, we were accessing our watchy via a Wii as it was a hassle-free way to stream to the TV, and there were some things its iPlayer would not show us that our normal internet would. It transpired that these things were licensed for watchy on a computer but not on a Wii.
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Out of interest, for those of you on handy computers, what does the '?locale=' report if/when you sign out?
I guess I'd better generate an IP6 tunnel to the US and see what happens.
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Sometimes that causes odd things - like Canada had the latest seasons of Dr Who and Archer at least 2 months before the UK and USA did.
the_siobhan wants us to subscribe to it. Personally I think the old Bay and its cohorts are a more convenient way to get TV.
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