Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

posted by janrinok on Friday July 17 2015, @04:59PM   Printer-friendly

Netflix has recently added Spanish-language shows on its service in the US. And the company says American subscribers are loving it.

"We've licensed a lot of programming from Latin America into the US, and are getting incredible viewing," Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos said in a call with shareholders today. "Shows that are successful for us in Mexico are now drawing huge numbers for us in the US."

Netflix has been able to reach a new demographic of users in the US, Sarandos says, by offering shows that originate in Latin America—and can assess what kinds of other content these users might find interesting. "We're getting hundreds of thousands of hours a day on single shows," Sarandos adds.

I started watching a Mexican program to keep up with my kids who are in dual-language kindergarten at school. Regrettably the plot advances at the snail's pace of all soap operas. Can any Soylentils recommend Spanish language shows on Netflix for our crowd?


Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 17 2015, @05:07PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 17 2015, @05:07PM (#210505)

    Never has any movies I want to watch and I really don't care about Orange is the new Black. We have it strictly for my wife. At least we still get DVDs...

  • (Score: 2) by tibman on Friday July 17 2015, @05:31PM

    by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 17 2015, @05:31PM (#210512)

    I'm enjoying Bobs Burgers (got better in season 3) and Knights of Sidonia. The last movie i saw on there was great, Robot and Frank. Isaac Asimov probably would have liked it. I wish they had more old sci-fi shows though.

    --
    SN won't survive on lurkers alone. Write comments.
  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 17 2015, @06:46PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 17 2015, @06:46PM (#210539)

    I am looking forward to 'not top gear'.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 17 2015, @07:20PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 17 2015, @07:20PM (#210548)

    I wish there was a way to filter the spanish shows out. I do not speak spanish, and I have no desire to use my free time to sort through the now trending to find English shows.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 17 2015, @08:56PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 17 2015, @08:56PM (#210590)

      I agree. I look through the listings, find one that looks interesting, start it... and it's in some greek/spanish/fucking who knows what launguage I don't care to learn. I set my preferences to english only but shit still shows up.

      • (Score: 2, Touché) by xvan on Saturday July 18 2015, @01:54AM

        by xvan (2416) on Saturday July 18 2015, @01:54AM (#210674)

        You know... there is somethig called subtitles/captions..
        It allows you to watch movies on languages in which you aren't proficient.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2015, @02:14AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2015, @02:14AM (#210675)

          Subtitles ruin the movie watching experience.

        • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Saturday July 18 2015, @03:07PM

          by Grishnakh (2831) on Saturday July 18 2015, @03:07PM (#210793)

          That's all fine and well, but I'd rather have more comprehensive search filters available. If I'm in the mood for a foreign movie, then I'd like to be able to search for that specifically; otherwise I'd like to be able to constrain my choices to English movies only.

          In addition, when I am in the mood for a foreign movie, I'd like to be able to narrow my search by region. Movies from Europe are very interesting to watch at times, but I can't imagine much from Latin America being worthwhile (which means I'd much rather watch a movie from Spain than a movie from Mexico). I just haven't seen much evidence of any worthwhile cultural output from the Latin American nations, unlike the European ones. I have seen some really idiotic Spanish soap operas that make the American ones look like high art.