Itunes unavailable on apple tv

iTunes currently unavailable on my apple tv. I've tried restarting, restoring, fiddling with my internet (that works on my laptop and phone fine) and nothing works. This has been happening frequently until now, when it won't work at all. HELP ME!!!! I'm about to hurl it out the window!!!

I have this exact same problem, ever since the last major update in September.
I have tried tons of so-called "fixes" posted in these forums such as turning Dolby off (which makes no sense at all), turning Airplay off, rebooting constantly. Nothing works. Tonight I tried to change the Airplay setting that controls whether it plays content directly from the cloud (I have a Apple TV 2), thinking that perhaps Airplay is interrupting the stream in some way. Airplay being "on" in general was a problem before September but the symptom then was that the picture would freeze for a few minutes and audio remained on. Now the symptom is that whatever is playing just drops dead and "iTunes unavailable" displays. Whatever I was playing then starts right back up when I restart the feature (press play again), but give me a break!! For what iTunes charges for their content, this is unacceptable. We'll see if my latest fiddle improves anything, but I have little hope.
As I said before, this never happened (maybe once or twice in years) before last month's awesome upgrade. The one consistent thing I have seen, however, is this problem never shows up if ALL the content is COMPLETELY buffered into the ATV memory. Then it plays back flawlessly. So, to me, it seems that something is disrupting the data download and that something MUST BE due to a change in the software (or it's just a really strange coincidence that happens every time I use ATV). My network/router settings did not change (and yes, I rebooted my router a few times too).
The only thing Apple seems good at any more is consistently releasing upgrades (to iOS, iTunes, and Apple TV) that spur endless functionality regressions and are poorly tested (if at all) before release. Software has never been Apple's strong suit but it's only been getting worse year after year. Only now I'm stuck with a boatload of content on their servers and crappy glitch-filled software to "attempt" to play it with. It just *****.

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