Netflix expanded its streaming service into the Netherlands,...
Netflix expanded its streaming service into the Netherlands, it said Wednesday. Dutch subscribers will get instant access to TV shows and movies for 7.99 euros a month ($10.64 at $1 = 0.75 euros), it said. Available content includes all episodes…
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of the company’s own four TV series that premiered this year and had not been shown before in the Netherlands: House of Cards, Hemlock Grove, season four of Arrested Development and Orange Is the New Black, it said. The “thousands” of hours of entertainment available at launch will also include full seasons of the American shows Dexter, Homeland, Lost, Modern Family, Pretty Little Liars, Spartacus and The Vampire Diaries, it said. Also available at launch are movies including The King’s Speech and The Expendables, it said. More TV shows and movies will be added “in the coming months,” it said. The many devices that support Netflix at launch in the Netherlands include Mac and Windows computers, iOS, Android and Windows Mobile smartphones and tablets, LG, Panasonic, Samsung, Sony, Toshiba and Yamaha Blu-ray players, TVs from LG, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, Sharp and Sony, and the current Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony videogame consoles, said Netflix. BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield, meanwhile, downgraded Netflix shares to “neutral” from “buy” Wednesday. Netflix is “becoming an increasingly appealing consumer proposition as wired/wireless bandwidth improves and we move toward a personalized entertainment world where everyone has their own device,” he said.