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Netflix Everywhere: Now streaming (almost) worldwide

Netflix's plan for world streaming domination revealed.

Richard Lawler , @Rjcc
1h ago in AV
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Today during a keynote speech (watch live here) at CES 2016, we learned the company is working with LG to extend its streaming service throughout the Middle East, Asia and Europe. In a press release, LG said the two will "combine efforts" to provide prepaid access. Last year Netflix mentioned how it was working with partners to make it easier to tune into streaming, and it appears that LG is an ideal partner for that with its newly upgraded webOS 3.0 that puts streaming video on par with other sources. Content exec Ted Sarandos said Netflix will offer 600 hours of original programming in 2016, before previewing trailers from upcoming series The Crown, and Baz Luhrmann's The Get Down.

Reed Hastings closed the speech with one big update: As he was talking, Netflix flipped the switch in 130 countries, and he says the service is available "around the world." The press reveals the last holdouts are Netflix -- where Reed says he hopes to provide service soon -- as well as North Korea and Crimea.

Netflix will not yet be available in China, though the company continues to explore options for providing the service. It also won't be available in Crimea, North Korea and Syria due to U.S. government restrictions on American companies.

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