iTunes store is currently unavailable

Re: New episodes available for download - The Blacklist, Season 2 AND Shark Tank, Season 6

WILL NOT PLAY...AGAIN. BOTH NEW EPISODES SHOW UP ON APPLE TV, but:

"THE ITUNES STORE IS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE. TRY AGAIN LATER" ...AGAIN! (as of now: for two hours).

Can you imagine turning on "normal" TV to see a show or sporting event or BREAKING NEWS

and seeing a message that says, "Try again later".

iTunes store is UP and store PLAYS older episodes, but not the new ones.

THIS IS A BUG!

REBOOTED the Apple TV. (Unreliable crap, requiring frequent rebooting. I have 4.)

NO HELP.

I had always hesitated to PURCHASE TV episodes and especially MOVIES for fear that I would someday NOT BE ABLE to access them...if, for example, Apple went out of business. BUT here we are and Apple is still (sort of) in business, BUT NOT AVAILABLE AND NOT RELIABLE. I WILL NOT PURCHASE ANY MORE TV OR MOVIES FROM APPLE TV.

NO WONDER "Tim" lowered the price on Apple TV.

NOTE, However, that I WAS able to download the new Blacklist episode to my iPhone (using up valuable real estate, so I'll have to delete it) AND play it through AirPlay (one of the RARE TIMES AIRPLAY WORKED).

Apple is really screwed and screwed up. TIM HAS FAILED US.

Apple died when Steve jObs was fired years ago, and now that he's dead, it will fail again.

Back to ROKU! (I have two, never had a problem with them, never had to reboot.)

And… ON TO SAMSUNG GALAXY phones! (We currently have 3 iphone 6+, not to mention past iPhone 5s's and 5's. Never 4...thought an Apple Phone was a bad idea. I was right... So MANY things don't work with the iPhone 6+ and iOS 8, and , strangely, NO ONE is reporting them to us ONLINE.)

(A friend just texted a picture from her Galaxy 5. The clarity was so outstanding, it was blinding.

Our iPhone 6 PLUS's (and 5s) make the pictures look like they have the photoshop painted "Sprayed Strokes" effect applied. Very bad.)

Not working on a movie here in Aus for us. 2/3 way through a rental movie. All at work tomorrow when it runs out. What happens when Apple can't provide the service paid for in a situation like this? Do they extend the rental time automatically, or refund the price paid, or do we just head to a different movie provider "next time"?

Rod Hagen wrote:

Not working on a movie here in Aus for us. 2/3 way through a rental movie. All at work tomorrow when it runs out. What happens when Apple can't provide the service paid for in a situation like this? Do they extend the rental time automatically, or refund the price paid, or do we just head to a different movie provider "next time"?

Contact iTunes Store support for the purchase/rental in question - I would hope that they would provide credit/refund for the movie you've not been able to view properly.

applecrisp56 wrote:

Instead of clicking on the show under purchased, go to search and type in the name of the tv show episode, it should then work

Such workarounds have worked in some instances in the past, and while this should at least let people view things, Apple needs to sort this out as naturally you are going to try to play your purchases from the Purchased section….

There seem to be a few posts with similar issues - could be a server problem in which case time will tell.

Check country/location settings are correct in Settings.

Instead of clicking on the show under purchased, go to search and type in the name of the tv show episode, it should then work

Perfect- this works very well- THANK YOU! Hopefully Apple will get this fixed shortly.