The streaming video pioneer had launched a US$7-per-month option with commercials last November in 12 markets, including the US, as an alternative to ad-free plans.

Netflix and Amazon have become hugely popular in India, which is set to grow into a US$7 billion market for the sector by 2027, reports say.

A walkout by actors would stop all production of film and scripted television shows in the US, except for independent productions that are not covered by labor contracts with unions.

While film and television certification bodies already moderate public content in India, its laws have few provisions to censor content on popular online platforms.

'A Netflix account is for use by one household,' the company says.

The company's theme parks kept humming with visitors, with growth at its Shanghai Disney Resort, Disneyland Paris and Hong Kong Disneyland Resort helping lift operating income to US$2.2 billion.

The streaming television giant reported a quarterly profit of US$1.3 billion, in line with expectations.

Like thousands of other elephant owners around the country, the Sapmak family had to return to their home village as the pandemic decimated elephant camps and foreign tourism ground to a virtual halt.

It says it will study the utility of the new model in three countries before making changes anywhere else.

Amazon says the outage was related to network devices and linked to application programming interface, or API, which is a set of protocols for building and integrating application software.

Moviegoing for the year remains well below pre-pandemic levels.

Disney+ subscriptions in the recently ended quarter more than doubled from the same period a year earlier to 116 million.