Home Sharing - no longer able to stream videos to iPads

I have an iMac running latest update to Snow Leopard ( 10.6.7 ), latest version of iTunes ( 10.2.2 ), an iPad 2 running 4.3.3, an iPad 1 running 4.3.2, and an Apple TV 2. Home Sharing is enabled for all of the devices.
I have no issues whatsoever with the ATV2 - works like a champ when streaming anything from the iMac.
However, I can no longer stream movies to either of the iPads and unfortunately am not sure when it stopped working. I am able to stream music through the iPod app without a problem though.
I launch the videos app, select Shared, selected my imac library, and browse the movies. I have noticed that some of the titles don't match the movie and when I select a movie to play, I just get a never-ending spinning wheel. This behavior occurs on both ipads.
Any help or suggestions would be very much appreciated as it is a bit annoying!
tia,
Bill

After more investigation, I found the issue.
I was able to stream ripped movies, but not movies that were purchased through iTunes. This led me to believe the issue was with DRM and authentication. So even though my Home Sharing credentials appeared to be okay on the iPads, re-entering the password on both fixed the problem!

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