Apple TV: Movie Lag, Stutter, Misses Frames

I have been backing up some of my home movies that are on dvd so that I can sync them with my new Apple TV using handbrake. I have tried alot of the different settings (apple tv preset, default, etc) but every movie that I watch plays for a bit then either stutters, misses a frame or 6 or moves slowly through a frame sequence. I do not know what to do. Has anyone else had this problem? If so how did you fix it. I read that the apple tv only supports 24fps and that is what I have tried encoding at and no luck. I have tried these same movies on a friends apple tv without a problem. I have tried harddrive syc and wireless play with the same results.

I was assuming it was NTSC rate which is 29.97 fps or thereabouts, but if changed to 29fps might definitely look odd.
The more I think about it, if the videos look great on a friend's AppleTV and presumably different TV, then presumably either the OP's AppleTV is struggling due to an impending hardware fault or perhaps less efficient hard drive, or the friend's TV has fantastic video processing circuitry rendering far smoother frame to frame transitions. The same hardware device will not necessarily produce the same video playback experience on different TV's some having vastly superior processing circuitry.
In fact the OP should consider if he has any playback enhancement features switched on on his TV as such features can occasionally give more problems when siwtched on than without them. I was reading the tech details of newest Panasonic plasmas, and one of the frame intrepolation methods seemed bizarre to say the least in that it almost never reproduced the original frames, giving interpolated versions of the majority.
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