I am having this exact same issue with the WEIRD AL movie on my Fire Stick. All the other content in the Roku Channel app plays without an issue. I've uninstalled, rebooted, and reinstalled. Has a fix been found?
I've been trying to watch the Weird Al movie since it premiered, but have never been able to get past the intro where he introduces himself. Playback error reads "Unfortunately, we were unable to play this content. Please try again later." This is day six of trying
I am not a regular Roku user, and am only using the app through my Fire stick, but am not having issues attempting to play other programs.
I am having the same issue dont know what to do
I'm having the same issue on our Fire Stick. Other movies and TV shows in the Roku Channel app play fine. I've tried uninstalling, rebooting, and reinstalling the app, and Weird Al still won't play. Roku has been no help on Twitter.
I had been trying for 3 days for the same problem. I even ended up trying and being able to install
the Roku app on my Chromebook and my android phone, so I was figuring there has to be an
answer to watch on tv. In my own case, not that this would work for anyone else, I had to let the
entire movie play to the end on my Chromebook, and had the sound turned down and didn't watch
it, just let it play to the end. I had noticed that if I held the home button down while trying to watch
on my tv that some of the scenes looked like they were downloading as they were being played
on my Chromebook. So the whole movie played to it's ending, I then went back after unplugging
and reattaching the firestick and plugging in the tv (I just unplugged all the equipment while
I was "downloading" the movie onto the Chromebook), I then could view the movie on my tv.
Hope this helps. It is pretty annoying to know that the channel is free and you can't watch it!
As I see it..they want non roku device users to keep clicking/selecting shows and movies that are not playable. We get the intro and they get clicks/hits, that produces $$$$$ for roku without actually having to deliver.
This means less use of their systems and resources with people just clicking/selecting a show or movie and it goes to “error”, this is an incredible mile stone for an app driven **bleep** device company.
