Netflix is a service that provides
DVD content via the Internet in
The United States,
Canada, parts of
Latin America, the
United Kingdom and
Ireland; and via the U.S. Postal Service
in the United States. Their streamed content ("Instant Play" or "Netflix Instant Play") can be viewed via computers, internet-connected game consoles (including the
PlayStation 3,
Nintendo Wii, and
XBox 360), and specialty set-top boxes (such as the Netflix-specific "Roku Box").
Available content includes both television shows (including animation) and movies.
See also
Hulu.
Netflix provides examples of:
- Digital Distribution: The Client-Server model.
- No Export for You: Literally. Because of licensing concerns, Netflix offers streamed content throughout the American continents, but because of their method of distribution, they only offer DVD subscriptions to U.S. residents, and the streaming libraries available to residents outside of the US are much different than the one within it.
- Offer Void In Nebraska: A variation: Some episodes of shows and special non-episode DVD releases are only available on DVD. These episodes are typically grouped by disc, but some episodes are available for streaming while other episodes on the disc are DVD-only.
- Too Dumb to Live: They, for some reason, didn't realize that hiking up their prices by 60% would mean pretty much half their customers would leave.
- Thirty-Day Free Trial: Netflix offers free trials of various lengths, mostly thirty days.
- Vanilla Edition: Some of Netflix's DVDs and all of their streamed movies and shows omit special features. Bonus Discs are not included with shipped DVDs, few Instant Play releases have Closed Captioning or alternate-language subtitles (a fact which resulted in a lawsuit from the National Association for the Deaf), and even fewer have alternate language tracks.
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