MsParanoid
Well-Known Member
I'm not (yet)?) a subscriber. First I'd like to know what they're offering but I've not been able to figure out how to extract that information. So here are a few questions to people who might know the answers.
I'm looking at the page https://media.netflix.com/en/only-on-netflix#/new?page=1
1. There's a link at the top named "Only On Netflix" (which is what loads the page we're on). Are the items listed below available only on Netflix, in other words not available through streaming via any other service?
2. Is there therefore a separate list of items available on Netflix which are also available via a different streaming service? It would perhaps be called "On Netflix and Elsewhere" or something similar. I don't see anything like that on their site.
3. How do I search to see whether or not a movie or series is available on their service? There's a search link at the top right-hand corner of the page but if I enter, say, "Gone Girl" as the search string (I picked it because a MBB article said it was available on Netflix) it returns seven Press Releases, none of which contains the words Gone or Girl in the title.
4. I understand that in South Africa we have a (very?) reduced list of items available, compared to a USA subscription. I'd like to be able to identify which of the items in their lists are available here. There is a column heading "Distribution" under which one of a few possible entries could be listed per item:
a) Global Original
b) First Run Non-US
c) Original
d) First Run
(there might be more)
Some of these have additional qualifiers, such as "Global ex. UK/IE" or "All territories except Canada" which are self explanatory as far as those countries are concerned but I don't know whether "All territories" or "Global" specifically includes South Africa. So my question is: which of these "Distribution" identifiers include South Africa as a distribution country?
TIA
I'm looking at the page https://media.netflix.com/en/only-on-netflix#/new?page=1
1. There's a link at the top named "Only On Netflix" (which is what loads the page we're on). Are the items listed below available only on Netflix, in other words not available through streaming via any other service?
2. Is there therefore a separate list of items available on Netflix which are also available via a different streaming service? It would perhaps be called "On Netflix and Elsewhere" or something similar. I don't see anything like that on their site.
3. How do I search to see whether or not a movie or series is available on their service? There's a search link at the top right-hand corner of the page but if I enter, say, "Gone Girl" as the search string (I picked it because a MBB article said it was available on Netflix) it returns seven Press Releases, none of which contains the words Gone or Girl in the title.
4. I understand that in South Africa we have a (very?) reduced list of items available, compared to a USA subscription. I'd like to be able to identify which of the items in their lists are available here. There is a column heading "Distribution" under which one of a few possible entries could be listed per item:
a) Global Original
b) First Run Non-US
c) Original
d) First Run
(there might be more)
Some of these have additional qualifiers, such as "Global ex. UK/IE" or "All territories except Canada" which are self explanatory as far as those countries are concerned but I don't know whether "All territories" or "Global" specifically includes South Africa. So my question is: which of these "Distribution" identifiers include South Africa as a distribution country?
TIA
