Is the Oz Netflix in agreement with US Netflix?
If not,the way payTV in Oz with it's monthly packages that only included a handful of decent titles if your lucky,should be used as a rule of thumb.
As mentioned earlier,there more services coming out.And one of them is a streaming service by Hoyts.
Besides,you wait that long the libraries of those distributors would have grown substantially,and by then,I assume one or two of them might fold.
Once people get wise to which site has the best content,there will be casualties.
I still like buying blu-ray movies from the stores and going to the picture theatre.
Also,I'd rather wait till the end of the year or into the new year until the anticipated bugs get ironed out in the optic fiber network.
So sitting on my hands on this one.
EDIT: Just in..
Netflix Australia - Quick Impressions
Here's what we think of the service at first glance.
By
Lucy O'Brien
After months of anticipation,
Netflix has finally launched in Australia and New Zealand, and the service looks good, albeit with a predictably slim library.
Signing up is easy. I picked the one month trial - which defaults to the $11.99 HD streaming plan - entered my credit card details (which will roll over, but can be cancelled at any time) and let Netflix know the devices I'd be watching on.
Like the U.S. service, Netflix Australia personalises your library to your tastes. It prompted me to choose three titles I "would want to watch or like" - I chose The Fall, The Godfather, and American Horror Story - then offered me recommendations based on those choices.
It's a neat trick, but right now it's relatively ineffective considering the size of Netflix AU's library.
Similar to Netflix U.K. when it launched in 2012, Netflix AU offers a significantly smaller content library than Netflix U.S. Sydney software developer Kenneth Tsang is estimating
there are approximately 1116 film and television titles available on the service at launch, in comparison to the whopping 8499 in the United States.
It's unsurprising. Various licencing agreements unique to our country, and more, different national tastes, meant Netflix AU was never going to be a replica of Netflix U.S. What we have instead is a small but decent clutch of TV shows and movies that will grow with each passing month.
Looking at what's available from the get go, I can immediately see the gaps. Shows are currently categorised into 'US and UK TV' rather than split into more detailed sub-genres of each, and there's a conspicuous absence of some of Netflix US' more popular TV offerings, like The X-Files, 30 Rock and Breaking Bad. A food and lifestyle category seem to be missing entirely, and for horror fans, Netflix AU's starting lineup is also quite poor, with 50 odd titles offering not a hell of a lot in terms of quality.
But there's still a lot of good stuff here. Netflix Originals House of Cards, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Orange is the New Black are present and accounted for, and a couple of cult favorites like '90s darling Freaks and Geeks and Canadian sci-fi Orphan Black are pleasant surprises.
Like the U.S. service, the movies included here tend to be older releases, but offer a fair selection across action & adventure, children, comedy, crime movies, documentaries, dramas, horror, independent, romance, sci-fi and fantasy, thrillers and world cinema. I'm also pleased to see there's an Australian cinema selection, which I hope will be continually tended to.
For a list of everything available on the service so far, check out Tsang's
content spreadsheet.
For the price ($8.99 for SD, $11.99 for HD, $14.99 for 4K), Netflix Australia still offers great bang for your buck (plus it's ad-free!), and customers of iiNet will be able to stream the service without it affecting their data cap, which is a fantastic bonus. As it grows, we'll be updating you with content coming to the service each month.
Be sure to keep your eye on the site in the near future, as we'll offer you a more in-depth comparison of all streaming services currently available in Australia.
http://au.ign.com/articles/2015/03/24/netflix-australia-quick-impressions
