Apple TV not listing rented movies purchased from iMac - Temp solution !

Fastest and easiest solution that has been working for me.
Simply restart your iMac while your Apple TV is is powered OFF. Once iMac is restarted and powered on , power on Apple TV. Your rentals should then show up in the computers section.

I don't recall rentals made on an iPad ever also being available on AppleTV direct - they're not supposed to be:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1657?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
It's a long time since I rented on an iPad so that's not to say it never happened I just don't recall that you werer supposed to be able do to this.
Airplay however should work.
Funnily enough I tried Airplaying a movie my kids had started to watch on teh AppleTV2 yesterday and got audio only.  This was from a local iTunes library so easy to do direct on the unit - I'd only tried Airplay as it should have continued from where they were watching rather than ahving to manually naviagte to there.
AC

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    I don't recall rentals made on an iPad ever also being available on AppleTV direct - they're not supposed to be:
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1657?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
    It's a long time since I rented on an iPad so that's not to say it never happened I just don't recall that you werer supposed to be able do to this.
    Airplay however should work.
    Funnily enough I tried Airplaying a movie my kids had started to watch on teh AppleTV2 yesterday and got audio only.  This was from a local iTunes library so easy to do direct on the unit - I'd only tried Airplay as it should have continued from where they were watching rather than ahving to manually naviagte to there.
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