ATV3 drops Home Sharing

Hello,
Today I received my ATV3.  Unplugged my ATV2, power and HDMI, and plugged in the ATV3.  Everything worked great for several hours, then all of a sudden, home sharing disappeared.  I have tried closing out of my iTunes, turning home sharing off and on again - on my iMac.  In addition, I have turned off and turned on home sharing on ATV3, and even restarted (not reset) ATV3, and still cannot get home sharing to come back.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks in advance!
Jim

Home sharing with the new Apple TV / iTunes update is just broke.  Only works for a bit unless you restart iTunes or disable / re-enable Home Sharing.  Use to work great until the last updates.  This is not a network (router, firewall, ...) issue - just a (bad) regression in Apples software.  Hopefully they fix this soon, hard to believe its been broke this long already.  The Remote app update also fails to connect to Apple TVs (but does connect to iTunes) for many people as well.  Poor QA all around. :(
I have yet to see any suggestion that actually works other than reverting to previous versions of fwr / iTunes - which is a pain / joke to do.
There are a *ton* of posts about this:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18078180#18078180
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18078351#18078351
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18078326#18078326
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18078599#18078599
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18078600#18078600
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18070923#18070923
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18070924#18070924
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18070925#18070925
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18072554#18072554
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