Itunes 11 cannot connect to apple tv in standby

I'm running a Windows 8 PC with iTunes 11. When I launch iTunes it hangs on the Airplay dialogue box attempting to connect to the Apple TV, which happens to be in standby - sleep.
If I wake up the Apple TV, iTunes still doesn't connect but if I kill iTunes and restart it, Airplay connects straight away.
I recently upgraded to Windows 8 from Windows 7 so I am not sure if this is a result of this? I never had the problem on the previous version of Windows.
It's a pain because when the dialogue box is there you cannot access the rest of the iTunes application, for example when I just wish to administer the library not necessarily play any music.
I wonder if anyone has any thoughts?

Have you got any custom firewall settings or security software set up?
As you probably know Airplay from a Mac is only avaialble from iTunes.
It usually works for me, unless AppleTV is busy doing something else.
I would rarely need to Airplay stuff from the computer, but if you need to achieve the same thing from a different room consider the Remote app from apple on an iPhone or iPad.
AC

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