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I'm a German and want to say there is no real competition here. As far as I'm concerned we are waiting desperately for a reasonable streaming service! Even watching in English would not be a problem as long as we could have Netflix! There are people here paying VPN and Netflix, so money should not be an issue.

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I'm one of these people paying for VPN and Netflix and I just hope they don't break this as I can't imagine them bringing the same content to Germany. For the content they bring here I hope they make the undupped versions available too. These often have different licenses. Amazon Prime Video for example has an ok library but doesn't offer the undupped versions for a loot of stuff.

> Even watching in English would not be a problem

Actually, that would be the only reason why I would subscribe to Netflix. I completely and utterly despise the German dubbed American and English TV shows and movies. That's why Amazon Prime streams are useless to me.

It's true that there is a difference in quality. But I have to say compared to 90% of the other countries our dubbed versions are actually quite good. I remember watching some dubs on the russian VKontakte where random people (not even the gender seems to be equal) speak directly on the original audio. You have both Russian and English at the same time. Therefore I'm rather proud of the German dubs.

I can confirm that. If Netflix is able to offer as big of a selection as in the US then the mentioned services, then Netflix will quickly take over the market. I know of many people that would even prefer watching in English as dubbing is often not very natural.

Eh? There's at least two large video-on-demand streaming services by large companies like Vivendi and Amazon in Germany. Maybe you don't like what they offer (I don't), but saying there's no competition is far-fetched.

Please don't take it too literal.

What? This is hacker news!

Netflix will face no competition in Germany as long as they choose to offer the content in its original language. Those other services insist mostly on showing the ruined/dubbed versions.

Yep, I hope it's not the dubbed crap everybody else has. I wonder if this is a licensing issue or a service issue.

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