Apple TV is useless for watching rented movies in english

Numerous discussions on this forum, absolutely no reaction from apple and itunes on this.
Problem? If you want to rent original soundtrack movie i.e. In Switzerland you cant. Only with dubbing in local languages.
Not only annoying foreigners, but locals as well - people enjoy watching movies with original language version!!!
APPLE ARE YOU GOING TO DO SOMETHING WITH THIS??? Or just continue to ignore your users?

http://www.apple.com/feedback/appletv.html
Apple don't really read anything here.
Use the link to tell them.
I guess it's more an iTunes Store problem than an AppleTV one per se.
AC

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