The Media Technology Monitor commissioned a telephone poll of 2,002 anglophone Canadians earlier this year and asked respondents about their tech habits and routines.
1 in 3 Canadian anglophones are Netflix subscribers
About 32 per cent said they were Netflix subscribers, which was up from the 25 per cent of respondents who said they used the streaming service when a similar poll was conducted in the spring of 2013.
A large majority, 88 per cent, said they were streaming content through Netflix every week.
Netflix, which is now operating in more than 40 countries, offers different content in each local market, depending on licensing agreements signed for the nation.
But according to the MTM survey, a significant number of Canadian Netflix users — 35 per cent — have stumbled upon a trick to access content available in other countries.
What is this “trick” ? Using a DNS subscription to access US serfvices like netlif, Pandora and HuluPlus.
Here are step by step easy instructions on on how to watch US Netflix in canada.
There are free and subscription-based online services that mask a user’s internet address to make it appear they actually reside elsewhere.
One of the most popular reasons for signing up for those services is the ability to access different catalogues of content through Netflix.