Latin America to receive streaming from Netflix

7/6/2011
BLADE STAFF AND NEWS SERVICES

LOS GATOS, Calif. — Netflix Inc. is expanding its movie and TV show streaming service into 43 countries throughout Latin America in the online movie rental company’s largest international expansion yet.

Subscribers in Mexico, South and Central America, and the Caribbean will be able to watch TV shows and movies on a wide range of gadgets starting this year. The company did not state pricing or specifically when the service will be available.

In the United States, a streaming subscription costs $8 a month and customers can pay slightly more to get DVDs in the mail.