Netflix engineer here.<p>To the commenters above who are disappointed with their country&#x27;s catalog and plan to cancel their trial:  sorry to see you go, but we did the best we could for launch.  We make sure canceling is easy, just go to the account page on the website.<p>As you can imagine, buying the rights for titles in a new region is expensive, so we start off with a giant loss on the balance sheet.  But as we get more members we&#x27;ll be able to buy more content in each country.  Here&#x27;s a list of a few dozen big-name titles that are coming later this year [1].  So we hope you come back soon.<p>About the patchwork availability - that&#x27;s not what we want, it&#x27;s just what was for sale.  In the recent past the only buyers of TV shows were just buying for their own country - like country-wide TV networks.  For each show, that left a random set of regions where the license was still available.  We&#x27;re trying to get global licenses for everything, so it&#x27;ll gradually become consistent country-by-country.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pr.netflix.com&#x2F;WebClient&#x2F;loginPageSalesNetWorksAction.do?contentGroupId=10571&amp;contentGroup=Premiere%20Dates" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pr.netflix.com&#x2F;WebClient&#x2F;loginPageSalesNetWorksActio...</a>
(sorry for the PR link but it&#x27;s the most complete list of 2016 releases I could find)