My ATV2 works again!
Here is what I did. I took it to the Apple Store / Genius Bar. He advised me that the restore on the Apple TV2 is not the same as a restore if connected directly to the Mac/iTunes. He reloaded it through the USB connection. We tested it at the Apple Store and it was playing content again.
I took it home and plugged it in and - same error message. How can this be!😠
I do have two ATV2 in my home (one upstairs and one downstairs). The ATV2 downstairs was working fine.
Now get this - when I swapped ATV2 - meaning plugged the "downstairs ATV2" into the upstairs cable-hookup and the "upstairs ATV2" into the downstairs cable-hookup they both worked fine. How do you make sense of that?!?!?
It worked at the Apple Store and it works downstairs but not upstairs. Yet my other ATV2 works in both locations. Very Strange. The only thing that is different is the HDMI cable - different brand at each location. But why would my other ATV2 work in either place?
Have I confused you all???
Anyway for the moment both my ATV2s are working again but fear the day of another dreaded error message.