Downloading Movie. Can I watch something else?

I have a new Apple TV 2 and have just rented my first movie. It is taking a long time to download. Can I watch something else while the download continues? I would like to watch something from Netflix.
Thanks.

AppleTV2 downloads rentals to it's solid state memory which is about 8GB split between various tasks (eg photos for streaming, movie rental, buffering local conetnt etc).
The trouble is there's no clear idea of how this memory is managed though from my experience and other reports it seems that a download is not necessarily 'protected' from being wiped by other actions.
I rented a small SD movie of about 1GB - watched it through, then next morning a relative who'd fallen asleep decided to watch again (well within the view period). The movie unfortunately had to be downloaded again from scratch, as something as simple as playing a few audio tracks seemed to have flushed it from memory. Maybe it wipes after a full view anyway, but this seems daft as to rewatch within the view period you end up wasting your bandwidth and Apple's which makes little sense.
So, while you could certainly watch something from Netflix i would not be surprised if that then forced a redownload of the rental.
AC

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