After pausing a purchased movie on apple tv unable to resume play

Paused a purchased movie which took four hours to download and now cannot resume it

This aspect of AppleTV2 is very frustrating for the many many users with slower internet.
By that I mean <6 Mbps for HD.
AppleTV2 has 8GB of solid state memory.
An average HD movie would be around 3-4GB.
It should be able to hold at least one HD movie rental until expiry and stream local content if it had a FIFO type buffer that emptied and prefilled as playback proceeded.
IMO it's badly designed - or at least there is the assumption everyone has unlimited fast internet - millions don't.
Please send feedback to Apple on this matter:
Apple - Apple TV - Feedback
They could if they wanted to quite easily implement a warning system to users with slow connections that a subsequent operation would delete a rental and ask permission to proceed - this could be a user selectable setting that could be turned on so as not to annoy those with fast/unlimited connections.  Even people with fast connections may get their connection throttled after using bandwidth quotas, and they may have monthly download quotas too.
AC

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