Netflix and Chill everyone! The internet TV service goes live globally (albeit with a handful of exceptions)
Congrats world! Netflix is finally here, wherever you are (except for a few countries)! Probably the most important announcement made at CES this year and it is finally allowing the entire world to Netflix and Chill!
The renowned internet TV service finally managed to increase its support from 87 countries and territories to 242. The service will NOT be allowed in China, North Korea, Crimea and Syria. But China could get it in the future since the company expressed interest in providing its service there.
The full list of supported countries includes the most populated areas in the world, suchn as India, Pakistan or Russia, but it also includes some of the smallest pieces fo land:
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Angola
- Armenia
- Australian Antarctica
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Belarus
- Benin (Dahomey)
- Bhutan
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- British Indian Ocean Territory
- Brunei Darussalam
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso (Upper Volta)
- Burundi
- Cambodia (Kampuchea)
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde Islands (Cabo Verde)
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Christmas Island
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- Comoros
- Cook Islands
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- Djibouti Republic
- East Timor (Timor-Leste)
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Estonia
- Ethiopia
- Falkland Islands
- Fijian Islands
- French Polynesia
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Ghana
- Gibraltar
- Greece
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Heard Island and McDonald Islands
- Hong Kong
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Ivory Coast (Cote d’Ivoire)
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Lao People’s Democratic Republic
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Macao
- Macedonia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mali
- Malta
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Mayotte
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Myanmar (Burma)
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- Netherlands Antilles
- New Caledonia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Niue
- Norfolk Island
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palestine
- Papua New Guinea
- Philippines
- Pitcairn Islands
- Poland
- Qatar
- Republic of the Congo
- Réunion
- Romania
- Russian Federation
- Rwanda
- Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Samoa
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- South Korea (Republic of Korea)
- South Sudan
- Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Sudan
- Swaziland
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Togo
- Tokelau Islands
- Tonga
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Tuvalu
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United States Minor Outlying Islands (Baker Island, Midway Atoll, Wake Island)
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu (New Hebrides)
- Vietnam
- Wallis and Futuna
- Western Sahara
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
If you live in any of these countries, you can be happy, now you too can choose one of the three different monthly plans starting at $9.99. You can get the Netflix app on your tablet or smartphone too and you get a test month where you can check out everything the service has to offer for free, before engaging in a long and expensive relationship with it.
You don’t get regional restrictions on content, which means that you can access anything the US gets, for example. You will be able to browse through thousands of hours of licensed series and content and original Netflix content, and more will be added in 2016 as well.
Source: Netflix