Home Sharing - Purchased movies aren't crossing over?

I just got a new laptop, installed itunes and enabled Home Sharing. I was then able to share all my songs from my old computer over to the new system - so far, so good. Most of the movies I had transferred to the new system no problem. However, some of them give me an "The Download of "movie" was interupted. Please shoose "check for available downloads" from the Store menu to resume the download". When I do that, it says all purchases have been downloaded.
These are movies that I've purchased from itunes and are my other computer, so what gives? Any ideas? Help?

Doh! My mistake!
I just read - straight from iTunes that some films from Fox and a few other studios aren't available in the Cloud!
I'll just leave this here in case someone else missed that too..
It's movies from Fox, MGM, and Universal so I'll just go ahead and not purchase their content.

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I set up the home sharing on my Mac Itunes.
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Jason Browdy wrote:
does home sharing physically move the files to the other machines on the home sharing if we set it up to automatically transfer new purchases?
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iTunes: Setting up Home Sharing on your computer
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Itunes match is one solution. You must use the same apple ID on all computers.
Start match on one computer and once match has completed its process, add match to the second computer. Match will scan for music in that computers itunes library and once complete you will see all the music in cloud from first computer - this will be available to download on second computer.
When you go back to the first computer, you will now have second computers music avalable for download. Continue process on other computers.
Alternatively to could use home sharing to move music from one computer to another by using "Not on this Computer Option" when viewing shared libraries.
Jim

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Ive read the tutorials on Home Sharing and am still unclear as to how to move content between two spousal computers, each authorised on separate Ipods/Iphones
We can see each others' Itunes accounts on our network and play content accordingly. 90% of our content is the same (why we are happily married for 25 years) but the 10% that is different is the issue. We cant drag and drop music from one to the other currently.
The tutorial says we have to login to the same Itunes account to move content, but when we do this, it warns us that this will deactivate the Ipod on the other machine - which we dont want of course. We want to move the few songs from one Itunes account to the other while keeping our Ipods/Iphones authorised on our separate machines.
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Hello. I am attempting to utilize the home sharing functionality in iTunes. Here are some details:
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2 different Apple IDs
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