For movies, ATV2 is junk...

OK, I'm convinced.  After reading all the rants about ATV2 continually pausing during playback of movies, it happened to me for the last 2 movies I ordereed.  I should state that in the past, I ONLY ordered and downloaded movies on my ATV1.  Works great.  I should probably also state that I almost NEVER watch a movie on my ATV1 immediately, but instead download for later viewing (sometimes 2 weeks or more).  When I'm ready, the movie is ready also.
Well, for some reason (brain disconnect), I ordered 2 movies on my ATV2.  I realize the onboard SSM (8 GB or whatever) is not large enough for 2 movies.  So, I expected to have to wait for a redownload when viewing these movies.  Within a short period of time (about a minute or less), my ATV2 flashed a message that the movie was ready for viewing.  The first one ran all the way to the one hour point where it stopped for several seconds and then stopped and started several times again before the movie finished.
Later, I tried to run the 2nd one and this time I got the "start and stop" routine after only about 10 minutes into the movie.  For my money, the ATV2 is a piece of junk for watching movies.  I will say I've had good luck with it watching 1/2 hour TV shows and MLB.
I am streaming via wifi.  I may try it with an ethernet connection to see if it streams better in that mode.  I'm also running my ATV1 on the same wifi network as the ATV2, but that shouldn't be a problem as I had the ATV1 in standby mode when I had the above problem.

Maybe I or more correctly, my ATV2 had a bad hair day yesterday.  I DID switch to ethernet, but that didn't seem to help (still WAY too many pauses while spooling.  Basically I gave up on it.  Today was a different story.  I selected a different film ("Safe House").  I immediately got a popup saying it would take 55 minutes to download. I let it go and came back to it after 30 minutes, expecting to see the 55 minute message again.
Low and behold, instead I got a popup saying the movie was ready to roll.   When I started it, the "gas guage" showed that the length of the file was just over 2 hours, but the "white" space was totally full, indicating the movie was fully downloaded.  I watched the entire film without one pause.
Still, I can't give the ATV2 a thumbs up because it doesn't deliver EVERYTIME.  When someone wants to watch a film, they don't want to have to guess whether they will have to twiddle their thumbs for an hour or so or crack open a beer and enjoy the movie.
For me, I'm going back to my ATV1 for ALL future film rentals.  It's never failed me.

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