Apple TV Screensaver Interrupts Movies

I've had my Apple TV2 for over a year now, and this behavior only just started happening. I'll be watching a movie streaming from Netflix, and suddenly the screen fades to black, making me think the scene has done this intentionally, but if I leave it long enough, I'll see the default Apple TV screensaver photo slide show start. Meanwhile, the audio of the movie is still playing. If I hit the "play/pause" button on the remote, the movie picture returns.
I just "Restored" it a few days ago because it got stuck on the screen where it's trying to set the date & time but can't, and I found instructions here to "Restore" when that happens. This screensaver-interrupt behavior started then.
Thanks in advance for any help on how to fix this annoying bug!

Liked the humor, lets use the word copied to my external drive, would not want to destroy my new 3 TB drive!
I followed all of the directions and it did not resolve my issue of Apple TV being able to recognize the movie and listing it for viewing.
I have not changed the process of copying my movies to my hard drive since I starting converting over to Apple TV. I thought is was possibly a recent software update on my Wondershare program and I actually reverted back to older version and recopied the movie and it still would not work.
I compared the properties of the 3 movies that I recently copied having the problems, to various movies in my library and there seems to be no difference between any of the movies.
Is there a way to revert to an older version of ITunes and test that?

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