Encourage AppleTV to Pre-Download?

After purchasing a season pass for a TV show, is there a way to get Apple TV to pre-download the first show or two so that even if the connection is slow there are no pauses in playback? And so that after finising one show it immediately starts downloading the next? My connection seems to be fast enough to simply stream video most of the time, but in watching a 1-hr. show there are often several pauses of a few seconds each.

DoonerMPM wrote:
The Apple TV has 8GB internal flash storage used for caching media files; it certainly can and does store data there. The question is whether there is a way to prompt it to do so before you start watching a particular show.
Yes, but its not permanent and using AppleTV for other functions easily overwrites that solid state memory - it seems a bit better than it used to be but you may be far better off allowing iTunes to download stuff and then using Home Sharing via Computers icon to playback the content, especially for HD movie rentals which can be 4-8GB or more - itunes will keep them until they expire whereas AppleTV may download and then flush memory if you watch a trailer or something on YouTube.

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