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Since Monday, NetFlix has been unable to ship millions of movies to its subscribers, the company acknowledged Thursday, blaming the problem on “severe technical issues” but declining to describe the issue any further. Today’s (Friday) Los Angeles Times said that the problem came to light on Monday and resulted in all shipments being halted on Tuesday. On Wednesday it was only able to send out about half the discs subscribers had requested. On Thursday all shipments were halted again in the morning, then resumed in the afternoon. According to the Times the disks went out to about 2.8 million subscribers, about a third of the company’s total number. A company spokesman said that it hoped to have service restored by today. In a message posted on its website, NetFlix apologized and informed subscribers that they would be receiving credits.
