Mike
Movie Rentals/Purchasing is one area where I have experienced problems on a couple of occasions. I originally thought it was something at my end but after a quick search, I found a thread on Whirlpool where it seems several people reported similar issues.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread...art=0&tstart=0
As I said, we power everything off every evening and so it might be related to the system having to re-establish some process related to iTunes, my Library on the PC and the Apple TV Unit.
This was quite embarrassing the 1st time because we had friends around to watch a movie and already had the movie downloaded, paid for and had watched it ourselves previously, but when we wanted to watch it as a group it seems that downloaded movies require some form of re-authentication every time you play them, so the full infrastructure of iTunes on the PC, the Library on the PC and the network connection to the Apple TV needs to be fully functional.
It’s a minor point, but it is niggly and so we have not found the Apple TV experience as seamless as it could be.
Movies that we have purchased/rented ranged in price from 7.99 to 24.99 to buy and 4.99 to 12.99 to rent. IIRC, once you have begun to PLAY a RENTED movie, you only have 48 hours to watch it before I presume some in-built code prevents it from being played again.
We are on Optus Cable Broadband and download speeds are not a problem and we never get close to our 120GB limit.
Cheers
Dennis