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Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts) Mon Dec 24, 2012, 11:26 PM Dec 2012

Oops Amazon broke Netflix streaming for Christmas Eve.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/24/netflix-outage/

Has an evening with National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation become an annual holiday tradition? Or perhaps you enjoy a pre-present thrill, courtesy of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas. Whatever the flick, there's a good chance you won't be watching it on Netflix Instant Streaming tonight, reportedly due to an outage over at Amazon Web Services. Netflix cloud architect Adrian Cockroft is on the case, explaining on Twitter that the interruption will affect only certain devices -- while we're not quite sure which gadgets are currently down, we have received reports that gaming consoles and connected TVs have gone offline. Netflix, for its part, has also taken to Twitter to apologize for the outage, suggesting that you follow the as-yet-silent @Netflixhelps account for updates.

We were about to stream sunny in Philadelphia sunny Christmas, no dice no Netflix.

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Oops Amazon broke Netflix streaming for Christmas Eve. (Original Post) Warren Stupidity Dec 2012 OP

Lots of talk on Facebook about this. proud2BlibKansan Dec 2012 #1

Oh dear. The streaming media wars are getting geared up. geckosfeet Dec 2012 #2

Favorite comment: "The Mayans predicted this . . . " NBachers Dec 2012 #3

Hmmm. Can't even watch old episodes of "Cheers" on Netflix streaming. nt Speck Tater Dec 2012 #4

I've Been Watching Netflix Streaming Movies All Afternoon and Evening No Problems n/t Indykatie Dec 2012 #5

It may be a regional/server issue. Mine was working until about an hour ago. n/t adirondacker Dec 2012 #7

It's Amazon's AWS in northern Virginia. ananda Dec 2012 #8

OK. Mine started working too. Everything is OK now. nt Speck Tater Dec 2012 #9

I managed to find my next episode of Frasier online. ananda Dec 2012 #6

proud2BlibKansan

(96,793 posts)

1. Lots of talk on Facebook about this.

Reply to Warren Stupidity (Original post)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 11:30 PM

Dec 2012

Apparently it's working again?

geckosfeet

(9,644 posts)

2. Oh dear. The streaming media wars are getting geared up.

Reply to Warren Stupidity (Original post)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 11:35 PM

Dec 2012

NBachers

(17,141 posts)

3. Favorite comment: "The Mayans predicted this . . . "

Reply to Warren Stupidity (Original post)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 11:47 PM

Dec 2012

It's down on my Roku in San Francisco. I can get Amazon OK. Hmmmm . . .

Speck Tater

(10,618 posts)

4. Hmmm. Can't even watch old episodes of "Cheers" on Netflix streaming. nt

Reply to Warren Stupidity (Original post)

Tue Dec 25, 2012, 12:44 AM

Dec 2012

Indykatie

(3,697 posts)

5. I've Been Watching Netflix Streaming Movies All Afternoon and Evening No Problems n/t

Reply to Speck Tater (Reply #4)

Tue Dec 25, 2012, 01:13 AM

Dec 2012

adirondacker

(2,921 posts)

7. It may be a regional/server issue. Mine was working until about an hour ago. n/t

Reply to Indykatie (Reply #5)

Tue Dec 25, 2012, 01:19 AM

Dec 2012

ananda

(28,876 posts)

8. It's Amazon's AWS in northern Virginia.

Reply to adirondacker (Reply #7)

Tue Dec 25, 2012, 01:20 AM

Dec 2012

They're sure taking their time fixing it, too.

Speck Tater

(10,618 posts)

9. OK. Mine started working too. Everything is OK now. nt

Reply to Indykatie (Reply #5)

Tue Dec 25, 2012, 02:06 AM

Dec 2012

ananda

(28,876 posts)

6. I managed to find my next episode of Frasier online.

Reply to Speck Tater (Reply #4)

Tue Dec 25, 2012, 01:18 AM

Dec 2012

It was a good one, a takeoff of Tennessee Williams.

I'd rather watch it streaming on Netfix with subtitles, though.

In the meantime, I'm going through Spiral withdrawal. I so want to see the next episode to see how that killer manages to get set free, along with all the internecine ins and outs of the corrupt French political system and the poor goodlooking lawyer just looking for a fair deal. This show is SO good.

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