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The content is one thing, but I could live with country based restrictions. What I'm afraid is the availability of subtitles.

I'm from a country in Northern Europe and live in a country in Central Europe. I want my movies and series without dubbing, and with English subtitles. US Netflix has been a perfect solution for this.

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Same here. I switched from Amazon Prime to NetFlix for the better subtitles.

NetFlix Germany is already better than Amazon Germany, but NetFlix USA is the best.

I wonder why it is sooo hard to provide original subtitles and original language for all movies. Is that also a licensing issue or just laziness?

As I understand the subtitles are usually licensed from different people than the producers of the shows, so yes it is probably licensing issues too.

As an example on Netflix Italy you can watch Lie To Me with Italian or English audio, but the subtitles are only available in Italian. If you switch to a UK proxy you get English subtitles...

> Is that also a licensing issue or just laziness?

The subtitles are licensed from a different company than the dubs, which are licensed from a different company than the original show.

And each of these companies has exclusive deals, sometimes even allowing only one TV channel to show one show at all.

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