Itunes visualizer on music playback with apple tv

Do any of you clever people out there know if it's possible to have the itunes visualizer playing on the TV instead of a photo slide show? I can get it working if I wired the TV directly to my macbook pro but not when I link it through the apple tv. Fantastic bit of kit apart from that.

Frankly I find it quite astounding this isn't possible..? Right now I'm using Air Parrot to stream my audio en video of my Mac to the Apple tv. It works ok, but this isn't what I expect from Apple.
I want to be able to do this out of the box.
Music visualization is very inspirational, it should be part of Apple. Next to that I think there's tons of people who would buy an Apple TV just for this one option. Talking about finding your niches. You could convince a very enthusiastic group of people with just this feature.
Mountain Lion will also feature this kind of mirroring possibility, so that would make it a lettle better. But still, it wouldn't benefit someone streaming from theor iPhone, iPad, iPod or listening to a radio stream.
I'd like a feature where I can choose to activate visualizations whenever I want and use different, community created visualizations, just like I can in iTunes.
Apple please fix this?!

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