Apple TV - Authorizing hanging on rental

I've been having a problem with my Apple TV 3 in the last few days.
I'm trying to play a paid for rented movie and it hangs at the 'Authorizing' point when trying to play back the movie. I've not been able to watch any rented movies.
I've checked my apple ID and password in both I-Tunes and on the Apple TV box and they're fine.
This isn't an internet connectivity problem as I have 100mb fibre optic broadband with no connectivity problems and my Apple TV box is plugged into an ethernet cable.

I too am having this issue. I had a heck of a time just trying to get it to let me rent it, it took maybe a half dozen attempts. Now it's half way downloaded and stuck on "Authoriing". My Apple TV 3 is on ios 5.1 (5201) and connected with Ethernet to my DSL router. I concur this blows chunks.

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