Netflix In Canada

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Netflix is also working to improve its content offerings in Canada, which have been roundly criticized as worse than what’s available in the United States. The situation is complicated by having to negotiate with an extra layer of rights holders in Canada, some of whom also offer online video and are therefore competitors to the company.
If you access netflix on any device where you can manually input a DNS server (Playstation, Xbox, Blu Ray player) , you can access the US content by including a US DNS server instead of the default or automatic DNS server. Also, there are many VPN services, which for a small monthly free, will provide you a US IP address from which you can access US content.,.
From low monthly usage allowances to poorer selection than in the United States, Netflix has become something of a poster child for internet and media issues in Canada.
With a host of announcements at the Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas, it appears that’s not going to get any better.
Netflix subscribers are now able to access a new category of video – super high-definition – which features sharper resolution than regular HD offerings. The super HD content is made possible through better encoding on the company’s end.
Netflix also announced that it is now streaming 3D video to subscribers, but only in the U.S.
The problem with both options is that they will result in subscribers using up more of their monthly data allowance, since the streaming files are considerably bigger than standard resolution.
One hour of standard resolution video at the best quality eats up about one gigabyte of data, while HD uses up 2.3 GB. The lowest-quality option uses up only about a third of a gigabyte.



 

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