AppleTV + NAS = :-(

Bought a DLINK DNS-323 NAS storage device (which claims to have a built-in iTunes & UPnP AV Server). AppleTV does not recognize the device on the network and it cannot be paired with AppleTV. (Just thoought I'd put that out there for the Google search enginge)
Also, just mounting the NAS drive/Volume on my Mac and trying to serve up movies through iTunes 7.4.x doesn't work. It comlains about not being able to read the file (which is most likely a misreported error due to excessive latency).
Basically, what I'm say to Apple is, put in a software upgrade so I can mount external NAS drives without having to hack the ATV. FYI. I don't care about voiding a warranty on a $300 piece of electronics that can barely be used at this point. I shouldn't have to bootup my computer every time I want to watch a movie.

Actually, I'm saying more than that.
 doesn't support what you are trying to do so far as your original intentions are concerned. If I was abrupt it is because you took the initial stance that this was something that  should support despite them saying they don't, just because you went ahead with your purchase despite their advice.
If you are having problems using your NAS in conjunction with a properly installed itunes, then this is another issue, but you are unlikely to get a much better response while you continue to make unsupported statements about lame software and abuse those that are trying to help you.
As confirmed by another poster NAS works perfectly well as a network drive for a library associated with itunes in a supported location, you clearly have other issues which are nothing to do with itunes or the tv, blaming something entirely unrelated just irritates most of us on these forums and tends to illustrate a lack of judgement when matters are put into perspective.

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    Ignoring the movie rental aspects, would I be right in believing the new AppleTV is essentially an Airport Express with video, up to 720p, that feeds off other devices on the network - computers, NAS, etc ... so don't have to rent, could load own copies onto NAS (*) and use the new AppleTV to watch them ... ???
    (*) perhaps bought with the cost-saving the new one brings ...
    Message was edited by: Christopher John Hunter

    Well, I for one really hope a NAS solution with the new AppleTV will work. Having to leave a computer running iTunes for AppleTV (old or new one) is just not 2010.
    I am willing to buy the new AppleTV, sometime in 2011, if that issue has been sorted and confirmed to be working. After so much dropped connections (my AppleTV needs to have the power plug pulled and put back in once a day, it just disappears over night and won't show up in iTunes after a computer has been shut off for any number of hours.
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