AppleTV- how to keep the screen saver going indefinitely...

..or at least until it puts itself to sleep.
I have a lovely AppleTV whose floating picture gallery kinda makes me (and my in-laws) happy.
But for some reason it goes away after 15minutes (+/-).
It does not bear any relation to the sleep time of the device (1 hour).
There doesn't seem to be any setting that accounts for this.
I'm totally bewildered!

It just goes dark. It just...goes away.
It's like it sleeps but it's not set to sleep for 1 hour.
Weird.
(AppleTV2 btw)

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