Intermittently no picture playing movies in 2.3

Since upgrading to Apple TV 2.3 occasionally when I start playing a movie I can hear the sound but there is no image. Restarting the Apple TV fixes the problem. The first time I noticed it was when playing Wall-E (puchased from the iTunes Store), but it's also just happened for a DVD movie imported using Handbrake (which has always played fine in the past).
My Apple TV is set to auto-sync so I'm not sure whether these are being streamed or stored on the Apple TV. The connection is via ethernet.
All music, TV shows, podcasts, youtube etc are all functioning fine.

I have had similar sort of issue with playing video files on my AppleTV, whether it be movies, tv shows or music videos, and whether it be streamed or synced. It only usually affects the first few seconds, usually no more than 5, and then plays fine. If I jump back to the start of the video, it then plays fine from the beginning. I don't know if it is some kind of data issue with not being able to stream the data fast enough (either over the network or off local hard disc), but the AppleTV keeps going and catches up eventually with the picture.
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