IPhone 4S (iOS 6) + Desktop PC (iTunes 11) + Home Sharing Videos

Last night I turned on Home Sharing on my desktop (PC), iPhone 4S and first-generation iPad. Started watching on my iPhone TV show episodes saved on my desktop...well, for a couple of minutes I did. The iPhone suddenly terminated my viewing and kicked me out of the Videos environment. I selected the Videos icon again and no longer found the "Shared" option there. I also noted that the same environment gave me a new error message saying something like "The iTunes Store Cannot be Accessed," even though it appeared that I could still access the iTunes Store. I noted that, when selecting the iPhone Music icon, I was still able to access a Shared link and view (and play) music on my desktop. I tried rebooting both iPhone and desktop. I tried signing out and signing back in with my Apple ID on both machines. I tried turning Home Sharing off and back on. In fact I tried just about everything that I could think of shy of the involved uninstall of the PC's iTunes, loading an older version, etc., such as I have seen attempted by others encountering similar problems. I thought I'd first write to this forum before getting into anything more involved and time-consuming. Hopefully one or more of you out there can confirm what the likely best approach to this issue would be. Boiled down to a single question: "Why am I still able to access shared music but not videos on my iPhone 4S?"

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