Jerky playback of content from US iTunes store

Hello,
I am experiencing a problem with the playback of content from the US iTunes store (in this case it's season 7 of "The Office").
When watching an episode, every so often (on average every 30-60 seconds) the framerate seems to drop just a little bit, but enough to notice. What I see is that faces appear to move more slowly than natural. This usually lasts for about a second or two for each occurrence of the problem. The audio is unaffected when that happens. The problems does not always occur at the same point in the episode, i.e. when I watch the episode I might experience it at 0:39, but if I start the playback again I might not experience it at 0:39 but only at 0:45.
I only seem to observe this with SD content, HD is not affected.
In my configuration I am using the ATV2 with a Samsung LE32A557 in Europe (ATV2 shipped from Germany). You could argue that some European TVs have problems with content with a framerate of 24fps but the same content plays fine with the original Apple TV on the same TV, so the problem is specific to the ATV2 and not the TV.
Is anyone seeing the same thing?
I have exchanged the HDMI cable, restored ATV2 to factory condition and upgraded the firmware of my TV, but all to no avail.
Any help is appreciated, I am already thinking of returning the ATV2.

I was having the same troubles over the weekend even though my internet signal is stellar. I called up apple and they had me do some trouble shooting aka make sure all of my versions were up to date and my signal was good. When all was said and done, they had me go to settings->general->reset on the appleTV and let it do its thing. It was about 20 minutes and it had reset itself (saved all my passwords and logins). Now it works without a problem and runs and smooth as can be. Hopefully this isn't something that needs to be done frequently.
Hope this works for you too!

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