Choppy and pausing video still

The sound is good but videos and TV shows have a choppy,pausing playback. I've only purchased one TV show so far but it is so choppy it's unwatchable. I had this problem in 2007 and used the Troubleshooting iTunes for Windows playback performance issues and that worked. The same fix doesn't work now. It started about a year ago with one of the newer versions of iTunes. Is there a new fix?

I also have the same exact problem. It originally started with the initial release of Itunes 9.0 I have not found any fix for the problem except to downgrade back to 8.9.2. I was hoping that Itunes 9.1.? would fix it.

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