How do i send a rented movie from my computer to apple tv?

I rented a movie from iTunes on my computer, but I want to watch it on my Apple TV. The rental shows up in my "rentals" category on my computer, and is finished downloading. The Apple TV is linked to the same Apple ID as my computer, and Home Sharing is enabled (and works just fine for music, movies, etc that I own and have saved in my iTunes library).
This is a 2nd gen Apple TV (fully updated), and my computer is running OS X 10.6.8 (ie. also fully updated) with iTunes 10.4.1.

I expected that it would show up in Rentals, but there was no such category.
Eventually I figured it out. The rental had not actually finished downloading to my computer because, right at the end, error 5103 occurred. A quick Google search pointed me to http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1597, and I followed those directions. From there, the download immediately finished, and showed up promptly in Rentals on the Apple TV.
So, for future reference, a movie rented on a computer cannot be streamed to an Apple TV until it is finished downloading. Learn something new every day, I guess.

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