zif wrote:"My sister hooked me up with Netflix from the US."
Is Netflix US now working again from overseas? I subscribed a few years ago, but then they started blocking access if you were overseas, even if you used a VPN, so I cancelled my subscription. (There's local Netflix in Hungary and many other countries, but it offers nothing like the choice of Netflix US.)
Would start up again, at least for the next couple of months, if they've decided to unblock overseas access again. (Supposedly overseas access was blocked for copyright reasons: films on Netflix US are only licensed for viewing in the US.)
I use UK Netflix here. No VPN required.
Possibly they detect via geolocation and block some movies but I've not noticed that as I don't see any messages telling me it's blocked. Maybe we only see what is available to us at that moment. Obviously we are able to see all their own produced content without restrictions.
I do see blocking restrictions on say, the BBC Iplayer. Then I have to use a VPN to download within their application and watch from within that Iplayer application.
Possibly in the future, the BBC will become available on a subscription basis. I'd probably pay for it, maybe £100 a year but maybe not. The quality there is becoming dire one has to wonder if it's worth it. Netflix/Amazon etc are producing some of the best content these days but it's a shame there isn't a crossover between them.
One can download I suppose if one was inclined to do that.