Netflix - Canada...possible?
#1
You lucky American bastards...screw our Canadian health care system, I want services such as Netflix. Why would our stupid CRTC (Canadian Radio & Telecommunications Committee) ever agree to let us have anything like that? As a result, even our Xbox's don't let us subscribe to Netflix; we have to instead use the Zune marketplace, which forces us to purchase episodes of shows individually (at about $4.00 an episode for regularly aired shows, full seasons of 20+ episodes can cost upwards of double what a dvd box set would cost). They will not allow us a monthly subscription service such as Netflix. Netflix originally planned to launch in Canada, until it became such an ordeal to try and work something out with the CRTC, that they just gave up and now say they have no plans to bring their service here.

So, anyone have any ideas on how I could possibly sign up for this service while living in Canada?
If I were to use an American address for billing purposes, would I even be able to view the streaming content, or would Netflix pick up my location based on my IP and block the service anyways (such as NBC.com or Zulu.com does)?
My parents have a place in Florida, and I was almost thinking of getting them to pick up an Xbox for me and registering it while they are there, hoping that when they bring it up I will be using the American dashboard with all of it's features. Will that work?
Fretty
Guild Wars 2: Fretty The Charming - Mesmer(currently inactive)
Rift: Nico - Cleric Extraordinaire // Fretty - Radical Rogue(currently inactive)
Eve: Fret V2 - EW Master of the Universe (currently inactive)
Your head, my lap. 'Nuff said.
Reply


Messages In This Thread

Forum Jump:


Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)