I have this issue with vudu (fandango at home now since they bought vudu)- it’s the main source I buy my movies/tv that aren’t on streaming - so all my fav shows or movies that aren’t on streaming I just buy in vudu so I own them. The other app was Amazon prime, but that has seemed to resolve itself. Vudu is the only app I’m having a problem with, but it depends what mood it’s in lol. Sometimes it lets me scrub, but most times when I see the preview of what I’m trying to scrub to - doesn’t change and if I press the button on the Apple tv remote- it starts the movie or episode from the beginning. It’s highly annoying since I paid for all these movies/shows. I’m very tech advanced and I’ve tried using the Apple TV remote on my iPhone but like other people say you can only go back and forth 5 or 10 seconds- but when you try to scrub through a movie it would take forever. The best workaround I found for vudu is that if you scroll down while whatever is playing- there is a “chapters” tab. Kinda like old school dvd/blu ray players that allows you to pick a certain chapter in an episode or movie. Thats what I’m doing for now. I don’t know whether to contact apple or vudu- im assuming it’s apple cause that’s the device I’m playing it from. I haven’t tried streaming from my phone and seeing if it does that. I could do that and mirror my phone to my Apple TV but I’m afraid it will do what Netflix does when you try to do that- it will say play from your Apple TV in lieu of mirroring.
if anyone has another ideas other than force closing the app and restarting the Apple TV (which I did many time before I realized vudu added “chapters” cause that’s a new feature and possibly they did it was a temporary solution until Apple could figure this out. They either need to release a patch with their next public b*ta update or an official esp since we pay for stuff on this app