Apple TV2 slow to play

I hate to add to this chorus of compaints regarding the Apple TV2, but I too just purchased an Apple TV2 for Christmas.  All my movies are already loaded on my Mac Pro and exist in iTunes.  It is not a problem with downloading or streaming from Apple.  They play fine on the MacPro.  The regular definition movies play almost instantly on my Apple TV2.
The Problem is that I cannot get it to play an HD movie.  I purchased my first HD movie from the iTunes store last night.  It downloaded from the iTunes store to my Mac Pro  in approximately 20 minutes along with what appears as a regular definition version of the movie and "extras".  I have been watching over 20 minutes of spinning beachballs waiting for it to begin playing on the Apple TV2.  The Airport Utility says that Apple TV2 connection to my Airport Extreme is "Excellent" with a data rate of 65 MB/s, an RSSI (whatever that is) of -49, and a Mode of 802.11 b/g/n
Can anyone help?  Otherwise this device is useless for me to watch HD video.  My Mac Pro is running the latest version of Snow Leapord (10.6.8) and all other software is up to date with the latest version.
Is there a reset that I need to push?  Anything?

Just got off the phone with Apple Support.  There procedure was the following:
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After going through these steps, when I select an HD movie from my iTunes library the movie comes up after about a 5 second delay.
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