Among the new countries getting Netflix: Azerbijan, Vietnam, India, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Turkey and Indonesia.
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That means the service can now be accessed in nearly every country in the world besides China.
“Today you are witnessing the birth of a new global Internet TV network”, said Hastings in the company’s press release.
The company has also added Arabic, Korean and Chinese to its language options, that’s despite Hastings admitting that they aren’t actually live in China – yet.
Hastings spent the early part of the keynote offering a history lesson on the innovations that have driven TV over the years, recalling it was eight years ago that Netflix started streaming.
To get the job done, Netflix has been tackling technical and regulatory hurdles, issues with payments systems and questions about differing consumer tastes around the world.
Netflix says that its service “won’t be available in Crimea, North Korea and Syria due to USA government restrictions on American companies”.
The company doesn’t break out subscriber totals for countries besides the US, though it has said it has more than 5 million subscribers in South America. Netflix is live-streaming its own CES 2016 keynote, on its own website, in true Netflix style. Netflix will produce original series in French, Italian and Portuguese next year.
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For a full list of countries and territories where Netflix is now available, see here. A video showcasing Netflix original content is available here.
