Apple TV 2 screen saver during mixed audio video playlists

With the Apple TV 2nd gen, at some point after an upgrade, the behavior of the screen saver during playing a mixed audio video playlist changed.  It used to be that while songs were playing the screen saver would start, and then as soon as a video item was encountered in the playlist, the screen saver would stop and the video would play. Now the video doesn't play and instead you just get the audio. Pressing menu interrupts the screen saver and then the video plays. What changed? And I want it back to the old functionality. 

Same here. It's just started doing this during NetFlix.
Turned screen saver off now...

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