GOING NUTS WITH NETFLIX

After looking forward to Netflix' big rollout of service in Mexico..........after getting the necessary box to hook up to the TV...........after then reading about the company seppuku moves on the news.....and finally, looking at the site and hearing reports on TOB and elsewhere, it appears that the company decided that what primarily English speaking, somewhat deaf expats want is mostly movies with subtitles avaiable in Portuguese. Or so it seems.

Anybody out there having any luck with Netflix? Any techie suggestions?

Translation: Seppuku is the Japanese work for suicide.

David wrote:Translation: Seppuku is the Japanese work for suicide.

Yup. That's correct.......and that's what Netflix is doing, as a company.
Optimists might figure their stock is a "good buy" right now. I figure that Amazon might find the carcass tasty at some point.
LOL. .

Do you suppose if you have a Laredo address and your mail is then relayed down here, could you do the regular 'by mail" rentals thru Netflix?

Splashingcolor wrote: Do you suppose if you have a Laredo address and your mail is then relayed down here, could you do the regular 'by mail" rentals thru Netflix?

I tried that about three years ago using my MBE Laredo address with Netflix and had an agreement they would send me a few movies at a time to that MBE street address in Laredo. I got the first six or so movies forwarded from Laredo to my MBE P.O. Box here without a glitch and then new movies they mailed to the Laredo MBE address started disappearing without being forwarded here or even acknowledged as received by Laredo. I complained to the MBE people in San Antonio Tlayacapan and they disclaimed any responsibility. After some ten or so movies sent by Netflix in several different shipments to MBE Laredo disappeared from the face of the earth, I cancelled the service and have not done business with MBE since. The San Antonio people were absolutely no help at all.

Your experience may be different.

Ok, good feed back. I think I"ll pass on that route!
Gracis!

I used Netflix back in San Miguel where there was a private mail box service in which on of the owners muled back and forth about three times a week to Texas. Bliss. It all worked fine.
Then I moved to Ajijic and got MBE. Same experience as the Dawg. Bad. Went to Handymail and the movies quit disappearing, but the turnaround was so slow I gave up.

Recommendation: Find out how to go around the system so that you can get streamed movies from the U.S. from Netflix. Amazon has them also. I am quite incapable of explaining how that's done. I'll bet Lehrer knows, though.
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Supposedly one can get (either paid or for free a VPN (virtual provider network) that will give you a legitimate "address" in the US through which, with a Roku box, one can stream Netflix from the US directly to your TV. Or so those who know better than I have said... Lizzy

As an opening gambit, we bought the Roku box and have now enjoyed access to movies that are older than I am, and a few that aren't. Last night we enjoyed a Zorro from the 30's and a Japanese sci-fi involving a savior Starman whose cloak billowed behind him as he crossed space in a sort of swimming motion. Gave up on that one. Finally, it was "Born to Win" with Steven Segal and Karen Black. She was strange: he was GOOD.
Tonight? Who knows? Wish we could find a Fred and Ginger.

Are you using a VPN? L

There seems to be some confusion with Netflix. Netflix is now strictly (only) a streaming service that is now supposed to be legally available in Mexico. One should not need to use a VPN. I do understand that there have been some typical start up problems.

The DVD rental service was formerly the foundation for Netflix but it has been spun off to a separate operation called Qwickster: http://qwikster.com/

As I understand it, you would still have to use VPN's with services such as Hulu and others?

We discovered that what was available to Mexico users was not what we wanted. We have a semi-deaf person in the family and subtitles in Portuguese are not really useful. IMO, Netflix did not do their market research before rolling out service in Mexico.
Check out what's available with English subtitles and you'll see what I mean.

They are very canny about the normal ways to hide your location. They KNOW.

CG. VPN is necessary to stream US Netflix. They have different content. Lizzy

Still lovin' and usin' Graboid...download to computer...watch on the TV when we want to.

Is there a specific reason why others don't? If it wasn't for sports, we'd never use Shaw/Starchoice.

...and yes, you can download Fred and Ginger.

Whoa.....what are you downloading? Movies or TV? Are you able to get subtitles if you want them? How are you getting it to the TV?