Netflix announced this week that Paramount Pictures Canada will provide movie content in a multi year agreement. Netflix now has the rights to show all of the studio’s new releases in Canada before any television channels. It’s the first exclusive deal for newer content on the streaming-video subscription service, best known for showing movies and television shows well past their initial airing date. The addition of this deal makes Netflix and even stronger competitor to the cable and satellite operators in Canada. With new titles like Iron Man 2 more Canadians will join Netflix and with more subscribers comes better content.
The other news from Netflix Canada is the ability to change video quality setting. In an effort to combat bandwidth caps in Canada there is now a setting to reduce picture quality. This will allow more hours of video playback without going over bandwidth caps.
The service keeps expanding and this year Netflix will be available in even more countries. As Netflix grows and keeps buying and creating original content it looks like they are here to stay.
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