ATV3 frame rate on HD movies from iTunes store

I bought the ATV3 recently, and I've rented two movies off the iTunes store. Both play very smoothly most of the time, but in patches it just looks like it's missing a few frames. Like it's 20fps instead of 30 (I actually don't know what it's supposed to be, this is just an example). It's still watchable, but it's noticeably worse. I might get 20 seconds of smooth followed by 5 seconds of jitter, followed by 30 seconds of smooth. It can be very hard to detect depending on what's happening on screen, but you can definitely see it during action scenes or scrolling credits.
Both movies I have rented were HD (not sure, maybe they all are). My internet connection is sufficient that it isn't pausing to buffer. I paused the movie halfway through and it had already buffered the entire movie.
Any ideas why the frame rate would be dropping? I expect the CPU to be able to play a HD movie at 1080p at full frame rate: this is what the product is designed to do. So I want to know why it doesn't. Is it defective and should be returned? Am I doing something wrong? A setting is incorrect? All settings are still default apart from unit name & apple ID type settings. Video settings haven't been changed.
Any assistance/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Ian

Thanks a million Alley_Cat, looks like that was it. I have a Samsung Plasma (PS50A750), and they have a mode called "Movie Plus". Looks like it does some sort of motion smoothing algorithm, and was set to "Low" by default. When set to High I saw the problem more often, and when set to Off it has disappeared.
Unfortunately the motion generally looks much smoother with this turned on (which is what it's designed to do). In particular it has a demo mode (what they'd use in a store display), and with any panning camera or scrolling text (credits) you can see it makes a huge difference. Switched on the motion is ultra-smooth, off it is very very slighly jerky. Unfortunately with it switched on it has patches of real jerkiness (how's the technical jargon?!). But I accept this is a problem with my TV processing software, and unfortunately they never released any firmware updates for it.
Maybe time for a new TV
Thanks for the help, and especially the speedy response!
Regards,
Ian

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