1-2 hr. Load time for previously purchased iTunes TV shows

I just bought my Apple Tv and it is taking 1-2 hrs. to load my TV episodes that have already been purchased and downloaded to my iTunes library. Why? It doesn't have any trouble loading my Netflix movies, just the iTunes TV shows. I have already decreased the resolution down to SD. Netflix movies are Finished loading and play within a minute or two max but the iTunes videos take forever! Please help.

Netflix is a rate adaptive stream and adjusts to the prevailing internet connection speed.  It always looks pretty good to me.
AppleTV 'streams' however are fixed size so if you're playing from the cloud and you do not have adequate internet bandwidth to stream 'realtime', a degree of buffering takes place to supposedly ensure things will play through without interruption.  If you use AppleTV for something else while waiting it has to restart the bufferings.
As a guide SD needs 2.5Mbps for 'near instant playback', 720p HD 6 Mbps and 8 Mbps for 1080p.
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