Apple TV - iTunes Performance - Thumbails Generation slowing everything dow

Hello all,
I've been wondering if I am the only one with an issue that has been completely diminishing my end-user experience regarding my Apple TV.
Whenever I hit the 'Movies' tab when browsing my Apple TV, iTunes will completely freeze for about 4-5 minutes (It will even stop to play music or videos). It's like approaching a black-hole
My choices are:
- Wait
- Kill iTunes (Activity Monitor)
It seems that my not so big Video Library (500 gig) is the issue here... It looks like iTunes is trying to generate on-the-fly thumbnails for all my videos.
Is there ANY way to configure iTunes to stop it's thumbnails generation?

I think it is just a bug, but it in very frustrating. I was using just now for about an hour and suddenly the correct artwork appeared for what was playing....but then all went wrong again!!
Apple, please, please issue a patch for this. It surely cannot be too complicated to correct.

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