Apple TV & LoveFilm - UK Streaming Service

After the official announcement from LoveFilm in the UK regarding the streaming service being available on the Sony PS3, where does this leave Apple TV owners in the UK? We don't have any streaming or rental content such as NetFlix, LoveFilm was the only service available. Does anyone know if LoveFilm is to come to Apple TV in the UK, or are we stuck with the overpriced iTunes rentals for now? In addition, where are our 99p rentals?

Lovefilm streaming (which is included as part of my Lovefilm subscription) is also available on newer Sony Bravia TVs and Sony Blu-ray players.
My £119 Sony Blu-ray player supports BBC iPlayer - inc HD, Demand Five, Lovefilm, Eurosport and quite a few other streaming services. It also streams video and audio content using DLNA/UPnp from my PC. It also plays Blu-rays and DVDs rather well.
My £99 AppleTV v2 does a MUCH better job of streaming locally stored content than the Blu-ray player - but doesn't play Blu-rays... Or access BBC iPlayer or Lovefilm. The UI is great, the implementation of the iTunes store is great. The set-up experience was massively better (Sony make you go to websites and register your device and then do all sorts of password stuff...)
At the moment the Sony Blu-ray player does look better value. And it does 1080p. But the Apple TV is so much more user friendly.
If Apple added iPlayer support to the Apple TV it would fly off the shelves in the UK. But wouldn't make any money for Apple in rentals I guess, and the BBC wouldn't (and shouldn't) pay Apple for this... (AIUI the BBC now have a standard API for accessing iPlayer - though you may have to do some approval stuff?) Lovefilm would be nice - though their video quality is still far from great. (iPlayer looks much better than Lovefilm on my Sony player)
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