Television giant Netflix comes to Pakistan

[Moon]

A location-spoofing VPN can bypass that restriction easily, or subscribing with a US-ased credit card.

Netflix is cashing in on its popularity but with restrictions. Without the same content as the US, it's heading for the same raod as BBM for Android: Downhill.

I'll be checking Netflix service starting next month, I'm too busy to watch TV shows right now.

 

[KAL-EL]

Glad you guys have finally gotten it

For me, it's not worth paying for year round. I do however get it for a few months at a time to binge watch older TV shows and some movies. Well worth the $9.99 USD in my opinion. HD quality is pretty good too (most of the time)

Currently re-watching season one of The Flash.

lolz with crap speeds in Pakistan it will be waste of money.

What are the average speeds in most Pakistani households?

 

[Moon]

Glad you guys have finally gotten it

For me, it's not worth paying for year round. I do however get it for a few months at a time to binge watch older TV shows and some movies. Well worth the $9.99 USD in my opinion. HD quality is pretty good too (most of the time)

Currently re-watching season one of The Flash.



What are the average speeds in most Pakistani households?

Probably around 128kbps, I get a download speed of around 2-3 mbps, on good days nearly 5 mbps,
But as you know, the submarine cable has been damaged, so yeah.

 

[Djinn]

lolz with crap speeds in Pakistan it will be waste of money.

True and some people are gloating that they will be using 2K & 4K streaming, When even 720p doesn't stream with ease. People are excited over something they got no idea about.

Glad you guys have finally gotten it

For me, it's not worth paying for year round. I do however get it for a few months at a time to binge watch older TV shows and some movies. Well worth the $9.99 USD in my opinion. HD quality is pretty good too (most of the time)

Currently re-watching season one of The Flash.



What are the average speeds in most Pakistani households?

Ahh you are a flash fan? I like Arrow a lot. Currently the download speed i am getting is 3.91 Mbps to be exact.

 

[KAL-EL]

Ahh you are a flash fan? I like Arrow a lot. Currently the download speed i am getting is 3.91 Mbps to be exact.

Yeah, big fan of the show. Really like the fact they introduced the original flash from Earth-2 Jay Garrick into the show.

also like Arrow too. Although I don't like how he's sometimes written like a poor mans Batman.

Regarding speeds, I inquired about them because I'm always curious as to what kind people get in other countries.

 

[mr42O]

True and some people are gloating that they will be using 2K & 4K streaming, When even 720p doesn't stream with ease. People are excited over something they got no idea about.


Ahh you are a flash fan? I like Arrow a lot. Currently the download speed i am getting is 3.91 Mbps to be exact.

ppl are buying streaming boxes like Jadoo box , real tv etc and call it FULL HD just because it has hdmi lolz...

Glad you guys have finally gotten it

For me, it's not worth paying for year round. I do however get it for a few months at a time to binge watch older TV shows and some movies. Well worth the $9.99 USD in my opinion. HD quality is pretty good too (most of the time)

Currently re-watching season one of The Flash.



What are the average speeds in most Pakistani households?

Dont know m8 many years ago i bought 2mbit adsl line and it worked "OK" but now its slow as hell since many of my neighbours got ADSL connection !!! 3g 4g service is also crap. Pakistanis are ripped off by internet providers and telecom gaints. Noting to brag about.

I live not far from Islamabad and tried 3GG service in Rawalpindi Islamabad to. ITS CRAP

I live in Norway and enjoying 50/50mbit fiber

 

[KAL-EL]

Dont know m8 many years ago i bought 2mbit adsl line and it worked "OK" but now its slow as hell since many of my neighbours got ADSL connection !!! 3g 4g service is also crap. Pakistanis are ripped off by internet providers and telecom gaints. Noting to brag about.

I live not far from Islamabad and tried 3GG service in Rawalpi an American TV shondi Islamabad to. ITS CRAP

I live in Norway and enjoying 50/50mbit fiber

Ahh so you currently reside in Norway, birthplace of the original vampires. lol sorry, just a silly nerdy reference to an American TV show "The Vampire Diaries."

As far as speeds go, I have to admit, I still get a bit shocked when I see what very slow speeds some here still unfortunately get. I guess I sometimes take my connection for granted.

 

[mr42O]

Ahh so you currently reside in Norway, birthplace of the original vampires. lol sorry, just a silly nerdy reference to an American TV show "The Vampire Diaries."

As far as speeds go, I have to admit, I still get a bit shocked when I see what very slow speeds some here still unfortunately get. I guess I sometimes take my connection for granted.

Never heared about original birthplace of vampires here in Norway I think its Romania not Norway

 

[KAL-EL]

Never heared about original birthplace of vampires here in Norway I think its Romania not Norway

Yes, mighty Count Dracula originated from Romania. One of the TV shows I'm referring to however, the original vamps were a family who resided in Norway roughly 1000 years ago.

The Originals (TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[ghazi52]

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'Why use Netflix Pakistan when you can VPN to the US?'



KHIZR I. TAJAMMUL

courtesy of Techcrunch
Television, as we know it, is dying.

I remember the nine ‘o clock news days, when we huddled around our television sets, and PTV headlines were consumed with the utmost attention, and boisterous, trouble-making children were silenced or sent to bed.

Today, nobody needs to wait for nine ‘o clock anymore – the news is instant, around the clock, on our cell phones and often times, more accurate and honest compared to the scoops of a broadcasting station.

Courtesy constant connectivity, major news channels like the BBC areanticipating major losses in dwindling licensing fees options and are already downsizing to meet impending fiscal pressures.

Similarly, in the world of movies and TV shows, Netflix has already emerged as a viable alternative to traditional satellite, antenna and cable television channels in the US and other parts of the world. Moving forward, Netflix CEO, Reed Hastings wants the entire world to have equal access to quality content within a decade.

For a monthly subscription of 7.99 USD and a minimum bandwidth requirement of 0.3GB an hour, Netflix is all set to scale in Pakistan. The vision, to many, is inevitable, but a decade is still quite ambitious.

The challenges Netflix faces in countries like Pakistan help explain why.

What Pakistanis want and when they want it

Firstly, content distribution dynamics are highly fragmented across the globe – there is no single industry standard to organise licensing and that means Netflix will have to structure a series of unique launch and growth strategies for the many countries they have very recently, officially entered.

In Pakistan for instance, where Netflix offers around 500 titles (read movies and shows), consumers are opting to use Virtual Private Networks. Users can mask their locations through these networks and find access to the Netflix platform based in the US, offering thousands of shows and movies currently still unavailable in Pakistan.

Bypassing the Pakistani portal is not a downside in terms of loss in revenue because consumers still have to subscribe for the service, but there’s another downside. Netflix algorithms — that are designed to tailor content to specific consumer tastes, and in turn help determine future investments in securing new content — create data that is prone to error.

Ultimately, skewed data means inefficient investment.

Piracy poison
A second major challenge for Netflix in Pakistan is to somehow break customers from the country’s massive black market. As piracy reigns supreme through DVDs and digital ********, a monthly subscription will sound attractive to a handful few who want to either watch on the go or are running out of precious disk space.

An even smaller group of hi-definition, surround sound loving people will perhaps subscribe for the ultra Netflix package that offers the sharpest images and sounds to its customers. In a country of 200 million people, and 30 million internet users, the aforementioned demographic is almost non-existent.

Despite the many foreseeable obstacles, including changing consumption habits, which involves pitching an alternative viewing experience to compulsive news bugs and the couch-hugging, soap opera brigade, the Netflix business model is a promising one.

The future is undoubtedly about watching your choice entertainment program in the palm of your hand, when you want, and for as long as you want.

And Pakistan’s future (approximately 100 million individuals under 25 years of age) are more open to new mediums, channels and programs than the generations before them.

To successfully capture the market in Pakistan, Netflix will need patience, deep pockets, unique content generation, a mechanism to either develop or secure that content.
Netflix will also have to hope for higher bandwidth at cheaper subscription rates. And most importantly, public sector leadership that can effectively criminalise piracy, which includes being able to stomach the economic ripples of a nationwide clampdown on illegal distribution.

The list alone is a tiring one and it seems Reed Hastings is giving himself and Netflix 10 years to run through it. If Hastings does indeed make all of the above happen, he will create a series of precedents.

At the current point in time though, Netflix Pakistan has little to offer.

As a start, Netflix will have to put in serious money behind new production endeavours and create its own renditions of Pakistani television hits likeHumsafar and so on.

Until that happens, my neighbours and I will most likely continue to chew on black market entertainment, and at the very most, if we are desperately itching to spend some money, we would rather spend on Netflix US, not Pakistan.

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[Jf Thunder]

Same here buddy...
Main ap k gham main barabar ka shareek hn.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
torrent zindabad

 

[Ray_of_Hope]

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
torrent zindabad

Kickass and piratesbay paindabad

 

[SirHatesALot]

I dont know about Pakistan but Netflix wont work in India due to its pathetic broadband infrastructure and ridiculous FUP that ISP have on their plans, I have a 16 mbps 160gb FUP plan which doesn't even last a month if i start using Netflix.

 

[GoldenRatio1618]

they came to earn on your people your talent and on your content with copy rights and in future will miss use your identity your content, as a solid prof. why not Pakistani Media under govt they should established one joint company providing same like things and earning will not go to other countries.