AppleTV v1.1 - AppleTV YouTube Streams Blocked in China

Hi,
I'm living in China on an assignment for a few years and picked up an AppleTV recently.
After upgrading to 1.1, I was thrilled to discover the YouTube feature but my happiness did not last long. I'm able to browse through the videos; however, when I play one, I get the full-screen playback display with the progress bar at the bottom, the gray YouTube logo in the background but the video never begins. The progress wheel spins forever and ever.
Like most things here in China, I suspect that the big Chinese firewall is blocking these streams. It's strange because YouTube is not blocked and I can watch YouTube videos on my laptop without issue. There just seems to be a problem with the AppleTV streams.
Have the guys at Apple heard other reports of this? Is there anything that can be done to get this feature to work?
Thanks...

The theatrical trailers stream with no problem. Actually, every other function on AppleTV works perfectly.
I think you're right in that the YouTube streams for AppleTV (transcoded H.264?) come from a different server than the streams that play through their Flash interface on youtube.com.
It seems strange that the GFoC would block these streams and not the youtube.com website and website streams so perhaps it is some sort of capacity issue.
Interestingly, the GFoC recently started blocking the flickr photo server but not the site itself. You can still get to flickr but all of the photos show up as broken image icons.
Anyway, let me know if you guys learn anything concrete.
Thanks...

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