"Netflix is currently unavailable. Please try again later."

You're not suspecting; you're concluding.

You sign out of Netflix on your Apple TV. When you launch the Netflix app on your Apple TV you'll see "sign out" at the bottom.

Did you change the DNS on your Apple TV to get Netflix content in a country in which you do not reside? Probably not, but if you have Netflix have closed that loophole.

You might try contacting Netflix. They are the ones who have the most to lose. They might have some ideas.

One time I had no sound on Netflix. Then I discovered I had no sound at all on the Apple TV, not even the clicks and boops in the user interface. I tried qutting and restarting iTunes, resetting the Apple TV, unplugging the HDMI and plugging it back in, disconnecting the power from the Apple TV and reconnecting it; everything.

Then I realized that I had just been watching cable TV, something I rarely do. Perhaps when I switched from the cable input to the HDMI input, the audio didn't get the memo. So I turned the TV off and on again, and that fixed it.

Now who would have thought it was the TV?

My point is that the problem may be in some unexpected place. Expand the scope. Check even the things that seem to be unrelated to the problem.

If Netflix can't send you a TV program, then they can't tell you that their service is unavailable. (If they can't talk to you, they can't talk to you.) The message is coming from the Netflix app in the Apple TV, not from Netflix itself.

Apple TV bad, Computer bad

If neither your Apple TV nor your web browser can get Netflix, then the problem is with something they have in common, like a router, a modem, or your ISP. Maybe the ISP is blocking it.

Apple TV bad, Computer good

If you can't get anything at all on your Apple TV, but you can get it all on your computer, then there is no problem with anything that the Apple TV and the computer have in common. The router, modem, and network are okay. Your Apple TV is messed up. Have a fresh pair of eyes check the configuration. If the settings are okay but the Apple TV still doesn't work, and iOS is current, take the Apple TV back or buy a new one.

Apple TV good, Computer good, only Netflix is bad

If you can get everything BUT Netflix on your Apple TV, and you can get everything including Netflix on your computer, make sure your Apple TV has been updated to the current version of iOS. If it still doesn't work, contact Netflix.

The reason for updating iOS is that there might have been changes in the Netflex app to accommodate changes in Netflix. You might have a mismatch; an older version of the app that isn't compatible with the way Netflix is streaming these days.

I guess so.. its been 2 years without much for issues and then the last week has been nothing.

thank you Joe. if the loophole was closed in the last week.. then that would be why its gone away. its funny, my 3 year old gets better programs in the US than in canada.. so.. the crtc probably doesnt like that.

I'll have to get someone to change the DNS back.. I dont know what the original numbers were.

thanks again.

thanks Kenneth.

I have the netflix working on everything BUT the apple TV.. so.. I'm not so sure its anything other than the apple box.. BUT..

I will try some outside ideas.

Hi again Joe.

You sign out of Netflix on your Apple TV. When you launch the Netflix app on your Apple TV you'll see "sign out" at the bottom.

I see the icon on the main screen and then when I click on it.. I get the issue at hand.. so I cant even get to the screen that lets me sign out/in.

Settings > General > Reset > Reset All Settings

Choose automatic and they switch back for you.

reset all settings... and now its been a black screen for about 10 minutes.. so far.

light on apple box is still on

Now you are concluding not me. 😉

now its been a steady flashing light for almost 2 hours and black screen.

it says that the updates can take awhile.. this long?

thanks again