AppleTV autostart and autorun a movie

I want my AppleTV to start and automatically run a looped movie.
How do I do this?
Also, can I set the AppleTV to autostart on "power interruption"?
Thanks!

AppleTV has no on/off siwtch or full software power off.
Unpluggibg/replugging the power restarts it - a power interruption would therefore have the same effect and make it restart.
You can loop a single movie but not a playlist.
You cannot however get it to play a particular movie automatically at startup.
Not sure if you could mod it and replace the stock AppleTV startup clip with your movie with looping flage set in Quicktime to achieve this.
AC

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I have been using AppleTV for years now and have loved it...till now!
I've purchased lots (over 200) of movies through iTunes and watch them on my AppleTV. The movies are streaming from the iTunes service (via Internet), NOT from a computer running iTunes.
Recently, I cannot watch any of my movies. AppleTV says "Movie will be available in X.xx hours". It ranges everywhere from 4 hours to over 22 hours. Once it was less than an hour, so I let it sit. It never changed and never played the movie.
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