It bothers me to no end that audio tracks and subtitles aren't available globally on Netflix. I live in the Netherlands but my kids are half Danish. It's difficult to keep them exposed to Danish when not in Denmark.
Netflix has nearly all children's cartoons dubbed in both Dutch and Danish but we can't access the Danish audio tracks from the Netherlands.
I had really hoped that a global service like Netflix would allow global access to languages. I understand that show/movie licensing is per country, but subtitles and audio tracks? why? :-(
IMHO, this whole idea of "you live in $COUNTRY so you only get to communicate in $MAIN_LANGUAGE_OF_COUNTRY" doesn't belong on the internet. Taking an IP-based guess, sure, many websites do that too. But at least most websites allow you to pick a different language if you wish. Netflix, not so much.
Netflix has nearly all children's cartoons dubbed in both Dutch and Danish but we can't access the Danish audio tracks from the Netherlands.
I had really hoped that a global service like Netflix would allow global access to languages. I understand that show/movie licensing is per country, but subtitles and audio tracks? why? :-(
IMHO, this whole idea of "you live in $COUNTRY so you only get to communicate in $MAIN_LANGUAGE_OF_COUNTRY" doesn't belong on the internet. Taking an IP-based guess, sure, many websites do that too. But at least most websites allow you to pick a different language if you wish. Netflix, not so much.