Oops Amazon broke Netflix streaming for Christmas Eve.

[Warren Stupidity]

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.

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. Lots of talk on Facebook about this.

Apparently it's working again?

[geckosfeet]

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

[NBachers]

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

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

[Speck Tater]

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

[Indykatie]

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

[adirondacker]

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

[ananda]

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

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

[Speck Tater]

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

[ananda]

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

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.