Netflix blamed Tuesday night's problems with the service on a "rare technical issue".

Tuesday night, . AlertSite, a site monitoring service, said that it discovered issues with the Web site for about an hour and 40 minutes.

While the Web site was functional at 8 PM PT, newer device interfaces such as those used by the Logitech Revue were unable to connect. Other users reported that Netflix streaming was still down via the Roku box and the PlayStation 3.

"We are aware that the website may not work for everyone at this time. We're working to get it fixed as quickly as we can," the NetflixHelps account tweeted about 4 PM Pacific time.

The cause of the outage remains unknown.

"A rare technical issue that our engineers fixed," a Netflix spokesman said in an email message, when asked about the cause. He did not say what the duration of the outage was, whether it was confined to certain platforms, and didn't provide further explanation as to what the technical issue actually was.

At about midnight Pacific time, the NetFlixHelps account issued its latest tweet: "RESOLVED: The website and devices are back up and running. Thanks again for your patience while we worked to get this fixed!"

AlertSite, which monitors site performance for about 2,300 customers, said it noticed problems with the site from about 6:22 p.m. EST and 7:59 p.m. EST, when the service checked the site's home page 20 times. Of those times, 18 attempts failed to load the home page, 14 captured low-level errors that indicated that the site was not responding, and there were 4 times when the Netflix home page partially loaded. On two occasions, the home page loaded perfectly, AlertSite said.

"While I can't say that the site was completely down, I can say that for most users during the time period, the site was unavailable," Ken Godskind, chief strategy officer for AlertSite, said in a blog post.

Netflix also that will take shows that are currently airing, like Dexter, off of the Netflix streaming service and replace them with shows that are not currently airing, such as The Tudors.