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Anyone knows if the movies/tvshows have original sound and have additional subtitle languages ?

So far i've only watched a few shows and one movie. They all had the _original_ audio track and german subtitles as an option, but not necessarily an english audio track.

As long as I can watch English movies in English, rather than being forced to watch English movies in dubbed German I'll be a happy camper.

Hopefully this gives the German terrestrial channels a kick up the butt. ARD, ZDF, RTL and ProSieben still are too lazy to broadcast both audio tracks (original English and the dubbed German) over cable.

I should get a discount on my TV license. In fact everyone should get a discount, just because German TV is so bad. It's like torture. Except for Tatort. They get a free pass.

Tatort also seams to get worse every year. I like that we at least also have a german version of Shark Tank now. Although it is not as good at least for now.

Yes, English is always available, plus localized sound and subtitles where available. E.g. Austria & Germany have English & German tracks, while Netherlands only have English audio and English and Dutch subtitles.

Cool! is also possible somehow to had additional subtitles languages ?

Just sign up and try it out. The first month is for free...

Almost always. At least in Sweden I've seen some kids movies that where only available with Swedish dubbing, and I had to do the whole VPN thing to get them with English.

> English is always available

Not in the Danish version of Netflix, AFAIK. There you can typically choose between three or four (horribly translated) Nordic languages.

If you want English subtitles, one solution could be to use a VPN service such as Unlocator.

Sound is both Original Version + German dub while subs unfortunately seem to be German only (Netflix Germany).

I've seen English sub options on one or two movies, so fingers crossed it's an ever improving library.

I checked Netflix when it was released in Germany (been using it for quite some time via VPN) and there were English subs for Penny Dreadful at least.

while there's the original language available, the video stream itself seems to be the localized version, i.e. burnt in screen texts are german.

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