Can I have two separate iTunes accounts on my first gen apple tv?

When I buy a movie on the apple tv, it sometimes doesn't download, and i hear from my daughters in another state that its downloaded there. To avoid paying for something that i didn't get, i would like to create a separate account for the apple tv use, so i can have movies I buy on that, and my daughters can buy their music on my first account.
I would still like to have my original iTunes account authorized on the apple tv - is it possible for me to have two iTunes accounts authorized on the Apple TV?
thanks in advance 

For a few reasons I prefer to refer to these libraries as primary and secondary libraries.
A primary library is a library that can sync content to the Apple TVs hard drive as well as stream content to it. The advantage of this is that you are able to turn off your computer and still watch the content on the Apple TV's hard drive.
The primary library will also let the Apple TV transfer any content you purchase on the Apple TV back to the iTunes library on the computer for safe keeping.
Unfortunately you can only have one primary library.
A secondary library can only stream content to an Apple TV and obviously when that computer is turned off the content is no longer available. You can however connect up to 5 secondary libraries to an Apple TV in addition to a primary library.
There's a little more about seeing which type of library you have and how to set up each on this page.
In your case the primary library would be your new library since you want to keep content you purchase on the Apple TV in it. Your older library would need to be a secondary library.
For the next part I'm assuming that you only have one computer. iTunes can work with more than one library, but you need to switch the libraries it works with and you can't use more than one at once. This wouldn't work very well for you, since you'd always need to ensure it was using the right library when you purchased from the Apple TV.
There is another way though, and that is to create two user accounts on your computer and run a library in each, one as the primary and one as a secondary.
If you have a mac you can have both user accounts running and the Apple TV will be able to see and use both.
If you have a PC the PC will only keep one user account active at a time, and the Apple TV will only be able to see and use that library. It's a little more awkward with a PC but not overly awkward. You'd need to keep switching users depending on which library you wanted to watch, but unlike switching libraries in a single user set up, the Apple TV wont transfer the purchases to the wrong library. Instead it will wait until until you have the correct user account active and then transfer the purchased content.

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