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I'm using the German Netflix without a VPN or proxy, so I'm unfamiliar with the differences between the German and US offerings? Would you care to tell me more? What are you watching on US Netflix that is not available on German Netflix?

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If you checkout https://flixsearch.io/ you can see the number of shows by country. Germany has 1808 and USA has 5750 shows available. I'm in Australia and there's the extremely ridiculous situation where a Netflix created show "Better Call Saul" isn't available to Australian Netflix users because Netflix sold the show's rights to a local competitor before they had a presence in Australia.

Acoording to Wikipedia, Better Call Saul is produced by Sony for AMC, not Netflix:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Call_Saul#Development_h...

> Netflix was one of many interested distributors, but ultimately a deal was made between AMC and Breaking Bad production company Sony Pictures Television.

A better example would be maybe House of Cards. In many countries new episodes are only available with a delay. For example, in Germany they are put online six months after the US start, because they sold the rights to Sky.

Interesting, I'm pretty sure it has the little "Netflix" logo for being a Netflix Original series on Netflix Germany.

Follow up: Yes it has.

Probably because they are the original publisher in germany. I've seen that for a few series.

> where a Netflix created show "Better Call Saul" isn't available to Australian Netflix users because Netflix sold the show's rights to a local competitor before they had a presence in Australia.

Netflix had nothing to do with creating Better Call Saul, and Netflix definitely was aware of it's plans to expand to Australia during the same timeframe as Better Call Saul being developed and sold to Stan.

I use it from the Netherlands but have had American subscriptions in the past. I can say that, approximately, the American Netflix library is at least 10 times as large, in my memory and guessing. Sure I get some Dutch shows in the Dutch subscription that probably aren't in the American version (though I wouldn't be surprised if they were!), but in general, it's missing a huge range of content that only Americans get access to (and maybe some other countries too, but not us).

Does the content you get from the American version while in the Netherlands come with Dutch subtitles just as if it were the Dutch version (I mean in the cases where some content is available in both versions)? I'm asking because some memebers of my family need the subtitles, so I keep using the local version instead of the American one.

The Dutch don't rely on subtitles or dubs the way the Germans do (in fact, Germany has the largest overdub market in the world!) since the Netherlands is essentially a bilingual nation, so I've found that nearly all shows that are in English in the Dutch subscription (and most of the content is) have a Dutch subtitle option that does nothing... no subtitles.

I have not tried to connect to Netflix from NL using an American proxy, so can't comment on that.

http://unogs.com/

Gives you a search which also tells you where the content is available. You will see, that Germany is hardly ever included. In my (subjective) view, Germany has one of the thinnest catalogs.

My girlfriend started watching Reign on Netflix when we were visiting the US. She is able to watch it when she visits me in the UK. At her home in Germany it is unavailable.

As my girlfriend watches it as well, I can tell you that at least Reign is now available on Netflix Germany. With respect to the other shows: interesting - let's me question my non-use of a VPN as well.

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