How to prevent movies on Apple TV from disappearing?

I used to be able to see all of my movies on Apple TV via home sharing.  Lately, they keep disappearing.  The only remedy i have found is to go into iTunes and "get Info" one by one on each movie and then it reappears on Apple TV.  I don't change a thing.  The simple action of "get Info" is enough.  Anybody have a suggestion on a better way to resolve?  I don't think going throiugh several hundred movies one by one is a great solution.
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BTW - i dont think this has anything to do with it but i will share that all the movies reside on asynology NAS.  The reason i doubt that the NAS has anything to do with the issue, i can paly any of them on iTunes with no problems.  And yes, all of them are labeled with the media type = 'Movie'
Thanks in advance for any help offered.

Totem wrote:
The idea of storing songs, movies and photographs on the ATV is to allow the end-user to turn off their computer and just use the device like a stereo/video component.
Ah! Of course... I wasn't even considering this b/c I'm one of these people who almost never has his computer off b/c I work from home and also do a lot of web surfing, etc. but obviously many many people have the computer shut off much more often than it is on.
So, alright. I see why the hard drive is there... it just seems so tempting for it to be able to be more of a stand alone device, more like another computer with iTunes on it rather than like a big iPod that sits under my TV. I guess I'll file that away in my tech wish list...

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