Netflix is on its way to Canada

By on Jul 19, 2010 at 8:31 AM
Services July 19, 2010

Netflix Canada Tweet

By way of the tweet, Netflix has announced that it will be offering its services in Canada beginning “this fall.” If you’re located in Canada, and would like more information, you can head on over to www.netflix.ca and register to receive more information when it becomes available. No word yet on pricing or availability. Pretty cool, eh?

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  • JMR

    I’ve been waiting for this day for a longgg time! Good work on the “eh”, BGR ;)

    • Mr.Bill

      No Doubt.

    • umaluver

      silly canadians

      • Baester

        every time an american says something of the sort, i know we’re doing something right in this country.

  • http://www.helixzone.net helix2301

    This is a company that has really grown over the years. They have came a long way from just mailing videos to your house.

  • Chut Pata

    I was in Canada once. Due to extremely cold weather, retired and handicapped people used to call taxi companies to deliver movies. When I told them in USA we can get them by mail, they were jealous. Good for them now, bad for cab companies and pay per view channels I guess.

    • what?

      I used to use netflix to deliver DVDs to my house in Canada 5 years ago.

    • Baester

      download them, pup

  • Schlomoe Goldberg

    Isn’t Canada a commonwealth of the U.S.? Do Canadians even have TV?

  • Jeeverz

    Best news I have heard all day.

    Also where is Bettiol to break my Canadian News?

    No offense Andrew/Kelly

  • iMiiTH

    Too bad you’d probably need to pay $100 a month for enough bandwidth.
    Ditto on mobile viewing..

    • Brandon

      That’s definitely the big downside to this. I’ve been wishing Netflix and the like (Hulu, ESPN3, etc.) would come to Canada forever so that I could stop paying for cable, but bandwidth limits here are so ridiculous.

      For example, in Ottawa (the country’s capital city), the best consumer-level internet service available is 10bmps down, 1 mbps up, capped at 95 GB. You pay $1.50 for every gig over that, up to $50.

      Therefore, I pay $110 per month plus tax for my internet, which by the way is throttled at peak hours on top of everything.

      • philcloh2o

        For Atlantic Canada we do have Eastlink, which for cable + internet (15mbps down) is 81.95/mo…. no cap.

        For $10 you can double that speed to 30mbps but there is a cap at 250GB.

  • thebluetoothkid

    This is old. Canada has had a service like netflix for years. But up in Canada we call it ThePiratesBay.

  • Tdot34

    Great news! As long as I can use their streaming service I will be stoked! I wonder how long until Shaw, Rogers, Bell and TELUS go crying the CRTC and Netflix gets blocked. They are trying to do it with the networks streaming TV on their websites, probably will do it for Netflix streaming as well.

    Dissolve the CRTC

  • anonymous-x

    Yea that’s cool but if you don’t have a valid credit card it’s of no use. My pay gets dumped into an account & I get it out w/a MC. So Netflix is like the phone I need it just ain’t there.

  • Mkoz44

    Wait…did you hear that?? Blockbuster Canada just had a death rattle

  • Gabriel

    Canada already has similar services, e.g. zip.ca.

  • Tomas

    My experience with canadian mail service has been thats its pretty slow. I wonder what the turnaround time will be for a movie.

  • Matt

    Took long enough! Zip.ca desperately needs some competition.

  • BritGal

    rogersvideodirect.com They deliver DVDs direct to home on a monthly subscription and the service is pretty good (including good selection). They don’t offer a download service though (yet). There are about 5 services in Canada that do this.

  • Sherry

    So far i have discovered that if your ISP is eastlink, you have no access to netflix. Eastlink has reported that both parties are aware of the issue and are working to fix it, but when i spoke with netflix canada, that were not aware of the issue and are NOW investigating.
    its not live streem tv and movies have been released in stores for 28 days before netflix is aloud to post them for download so i think cable/satelite companies are just going to have to suck it unless they can provide better competition with a better movie selection and not 300 channels of the same movie/show

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