Marking videos as "watched"

I have the new Apple TV. It works great. However, today I noticed something odd. I have TV shows on my computer in iTunes and both devices use Home Sharing. Everything works great and I watch the TVs from the Computer on the Apple TV. However, when a show concludes, my old Apple TV will mark the show as "Watched" on the computer there by allowing my other devices (iPads, iPods etc) to see the show as watched and not sync them. The new Apple TV does not mark shows as watched.
If I hold down the remote button and get the pop up dialog to manually mark the show as watched, the new Apple TV crashes and reboots.
Anyone else having this issue? I have 2 new apple tvs, in different rooms and I have confirmed that this happens on both. Manually marking a show as "watched" causes the new Apple TV to crash and reboot.

Chenks wrote:
that's because it's not an itunes issue. it's an appletv software issue, and won't be resolved until there is an update to the appletv software.
I was attempting to verify this problem and test a hypothesis. Above in the thread, someone suggested that they had success with a restore. It can be safely assumed that it is a bug in the AppleTV software, but since iTunes does have a hand in the operation, it is also plausible that iTunes 10 might be causing the issue. I was trying to replicate and verify that a restore might fix the problem. Add this been the case, then it would suggest that the OS shipped on the ATV is different than the one obtained through a restore. This is however, not the case.
After restoring my AppleTV, it still crashes and restarts when trying to mark shows as "Watched." It also does not correctly mark a show as "Watched" when the end of a show is reached.
Hopefully, Apple reps read these and report the issues.

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