Netflix down? You may be eligible for a discount on your Netflix bill.
Netflix was down. Netflix was back up again. And now, Netflix is reaching out to its fan base, offering a 3 percent discount on the next billing statement to any customer affected by the slow-down. The news came late this week in an email message, which included a link allowing users to instantly apply the 3 percent credit. The discount can only be applied once.
Exact numbers about the outage were hard to find, but apparently Netflix.com went down on Thursday 鈥� not at night, as Mashable noted, when most consumers are plugged into their streaming feeds, but in the middle of the . Users trying to load up streaming videos were greeted with the following message: 鈥淪ite Error 鈥� We were unable to process your request.鈥�
Netflix has not issued a precise explanation about the slow-down, but it's more than likely it's just server or service issues for an increasingly popular site.
Last week, Netflix announced that subscribers with a Nintendo Wii or Sony PlayStation 3 console will be able to stream video directly from the Netflix library 鈥� without the hassle of inserting that pesky Netflix disc. The process is meant to be pretty simple: Fire up your console, navigate to the online marketplace 鈥� the Wii Shop channel on the Wii and the PlayStation Store on the PS3 鈥� and download the Netflix application.
Although the streaming market video is getting busier 鈥� HBO GO and Hulu are both edging into Netflix territory 鈥� Netflix has managed to post strong sales month and after month. On Oct. 21, Netflix revealed that it had ended Q3 with 16.9 million subscribers for its DVD-by-mail and streaming video service, a jump of 52 percent from the same time last year. Stock prices .
