Netflix DVD shipments might be late
So I was talking to my Work Spouse Gus (the Rising Sun and cop reporter extraordinaire) and he said he's been having trouble getting his Netflix movies lately.
I don't use Netflix (I used to use the other DVD delivery, which rhymes with Flockmuster, but canceled them when they raised the prices on me. Now I just visit their stores occasionally to rent a movie) and I've been buried up to my ears trying to finish my Sunday and Tuesday columns, so I have to confess I wasn't aware of the problems.
But apparently, the 3-day Netflix glitch is fixed now, according to the AP. The outage held up shipments for about a third of the company's 8.4 million subscribers.
Netflix won't say what caused the problem, but half of Netflix's distribution centers were down, according to this story from appscout.com.
According to the story:
Technical issues continued to plague Netflix Thursday afternoon as engineers worked "around the clock" to fix an e-mail glitch that took many of the DVD rental company's distribution centers offline.
"We were able to ship some DVDs from about half of our distribution centers yesterday but we haven't yet been able to resume shipping this morning," Andy Rendich, head of operations for Netflix, wrote in a Thursday blog post.
"Our engineers continue to work around the clock to restore normal operations," he said. "In the meantime, we're notifying affected customers via personal email and we've posted a notice on the Netflix Web site."
What say you out there? Are you a Netflixer and have you gotten your movies yet or do you think it's going to take the online rental company some time to sort it all out?
Categories: Cable/Satellite/TV/Comcast/FiOS, Technology
Comments
They must have shipped them all last night from Gaithersburg, because I have as many at home now as I pay for.
Posted by: Cheap Jim | August 16, 2008 5:10 PM