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House of Cards may not be Netflix’s first stab at original content, but it’s by far its most important. Whether people turn to the streaming service for shows they can’t find anywhere else will define the company’s chance at future success. Which is why, starting today, House of Cards is free to watch even if you’re not a Netflix member.
The Kevin Spacey political series will be free-for-all for a month, after which it gets closed up behind Netflix’s £6/month moat. Which is smart! Non-members don’t have to decide blind whether the original shows are worth tacking on yet another streaming service, and Netflix gets to build hype for a show it clearly has a lot of confidence in. And honestly, it should be a mortal sin to keep Kevin Spacey behind a paywall for any reason. [Netflix]
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The problem with Netflix here in the UK is everything is years old, it would be a great service if they updated the shows more. I’m still waiting for Mythbusters to have more than 4 series lol….
They’ve got ten now! Recently updated, same with Top Gear, Doctor Who and a load of other big series
Seriously, dude, don’t do that to me. I was about to jump on Netflix and run round screaming like an excited child there. Talk about let-downs
Haha, when I saw the ‘Episodes recently added’ banner, I thought they would have updated with loads of new series, I was so sad when it was only one extra series.
5, my bad.
There are relatively easy ways to access the US side.
Unfortunately the university network gets in the way of any VPN-like connections, so it doesn’t work here :’(
What about changing your DNS? thats what I do using unodns. they have a free trial, might as well check it out.
Mucks up my connections to the Wifi, no idea how.
Thanks anyway though! Works when I jack in to the ethernet.
No need for a vpn
Please, do enlighten me. Though that Chrome plugin on Giz UK a few months back works, so it’s no big deal.
Yep that was what I meant the chrome plugin
Really don’t understand the use of the term ‘original content’ (!).
This is a series based on the great 90′s series (of the same name) with Ian Richardson.
Really, you don’t understand? They mean that it has been produced specifically for Netflix, unlike absolutely everything else on the service which has aired or been otherwise released by other means in the past. It’s quite clear what they mean from down here, off the high horse
Ah, I didn’t know it was Netflix’s own. Ok, well it’s original content of an unoriginal series.
Agreed?
Actually, it should be ‘but an unoriginal series’. I made it sound like the UK version was unoriginal.
Only the first episode is available to watch without registering, you need to register with a US based card to watch the other episodes.