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Netflix outage prevents streaming to some devices

2011-07-21 07:46 by
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Netflix suffered an outage last night that prevented some devices from connecting to the company's servers to stream movies. A Netflix help line recording told subscribers that the movie-rental service was aware of the issue and was working to resolve it.

"We are currently experiencing issues streaming movies on Netflix-ready devices, however you might be able to stream on your PC or Mac," the recording said. "We are working to resolve the problem."

According to customer service representative, the streaming issue appeared to have been affecting Samsung Blu- ray players for several hours and engineers were working to fix the problem. Netflix users expressed their dissatisfaction about the recent outages on Twitter:

"netflix you really shouldn't constantly have website issues for those of us who stream... esp. with your new price hike," said GingerLemonGirl, an apparent Netflix subscriber in North Carolina.

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