Strange Streaming service behavior of late

[BarkingGhostar]

The other night I went looking for a Netflix movie called Wasp Network but Netflix search had nothing on it. While I was in Amazon Prime, on the Amazon Fire Stick TV, it found the name but when I tried to select it nothing would happen. Last night I happen to turn on the Amazon Fire Stick TV and repeat the search from there--not loading any streaming service) and it found it, stated it was on Netflix and offered to start playing it since Fire Stick TV knew I had a Netflix app installed. It played just fine. Now, why would Amazon's own search engine fail to find a Netflix movie property but a competing platform does?

And now this evening I decided to Sky Captain on Amazon Prime on the same Fire Stick. I had previously tagged it for my Watchlist but this evening it would not play at all. I select the Play button and get a black screen with a continuous busy widget and nothing ever loads. OK, let the strange behavior continue and let's try something else other than the Fire Stick TV. I go up and turn on the Xbox One S with the many streaming apps installed and I get the same results I have been getting on the Fire Stick TV. Literally the exact same behavior, but different hardware and operating platforms.

As such I left to believe that it is the apps. BTW, this is all over a non-VPN local environment.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

OK, this gets even stranger. I log into Amazon from the computer, go into Prime, start and successfully play Sky Captain just fine. I then turn on the Xbox One S again and now it is playing there. Same for the Fire Stick TV 4K as well. Anyway, the Search functionality for Netflix is still hit and miss.

 

[sdifox]

Your AI overlord is trying to keep you from watching that horribad movie

 

[BarkingGhostar]

OK, but what about Wasp network, it wasn't that bad. And seeing Ana's amazing chest is always welcomed.