Missing movies on Apple Tv

I am having problems with my new Apple TV. I initally set it up and all my movies from my itunes library on my MacBook were shown on the Apple TV. I just went back on for the second time using it and some of my movies were missing on my Apple TV yet they are still in my Itunes library. I reset Apple TV, reset the router and all updates are updated. Not sure what can be the problem.

I had the same problem. Only some of my movies from iTunes were showing up on my Apple TV. Here's what fixed it for me: Make sure you have a "Genre" selected for EVERY movie. In list view in iTunes you can see any number of list items you want (from the View menu, view options). View the Genre item and make sure all movies have a genre. If you don't want to put "comedy," "romance," etc., simply put "movie" in the genre spot for every movie. Then restart your iTunes, restart your Apple TV (from the Apple TV settings menu, find restart), then try again. Worked for me.
Turns out some changes Apple has made in the last few updates has made "genre" more important to movies than it used to be. Go figure.

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I have two Apple TVs - a 2nd gen one and a 3rd gen one. I also have about 30 movies in my iTunes movies library which, when I connect with that computer on either Apple TVs brings all the content across.
However, since the update, most of that content has vanished from the Apple TV 3rd gen. I haven't updated the 2nd gen ATV and all the content is still there when I link to the computer.
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I'd first check that you haven't labeled your missing content as home video and it hasn't simply been moved into this category as a result of it being introduced in the latest software.

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I am missing the "movie" list on my apple tv after it comes back from standby.
The main menu only shows internet, computer, settings.... the movie menu is completly missing.
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i tried this and it works for me.
- Reset your Apple TV
- Update your Apple TV software to the latest one.
- Sign in Sign out your account.
- Unplug your Apple TV for 30 to 50 seconds
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Hi there
We've rented a movie thru apple tv - am receing a message to download the movie but we can't seem to find a spot to download it from. Usually it just does this automatically
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i tried this and it works for me.
- Reset your Apple TV
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- Sign in Sign out your account.
- Unplug your Apple TV for 30 to 50 seconds
To find your missing movie rental :
Go to settings > General > iTunes Store > Check For Rentals.

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I purchased a movie via Apple TV. My understanding is I can watch the movie on other IOS devices as well as in iTunes. The purchased movie shows up on Apple TV, but I can't find it available on my iPad or in iTunes. Am I missing something obvious here on how to play the movie on the other devices. I have Home Sharing set up. Streaming any content, purchased or otherwise from OS X iTunes to Apple TV works fine.

I did a quick search to, just to check my assumption that they should show up in the iTunes Store on the mobile device, and they should.
Another thought I had is that not all movie studios have signed up for the re-download deal, although I would have thought that any movies that were not re-downloadable would not be offered for sale on the Apple TV. I do think however that since it is under the purchased section on the Apple TV that this is probably not the case here.
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I have created a movie in imovie. When I share it with idvd everything is fine and I can burn a dvd (the 1st time). The next time I try to open that dvd project I get a message saying "missing movie file clip 01.dv. Would you like to search for it?" I can't seem to find it anywhere. It says the dvd won't play properly with out it, then idvd usually ends up freezing up. That movie name isn't even part of my original movie. So everytime I want to make a change or burn another dvd of this project, I have to go back into imovie and export to idvd again.
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If you get a good first burn every time that you initially export your iMovie project to iDVD, try saving the iDVD as a disk image instead of burning a DVD disk. When you save as a disk image iDVD goes through the same encoding process as if you were burning to a DVD disk. Once you have burned a disk image you then can open and close the disk image multiple times to burn multiple DVD disks from the disk image, using Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility, without again going through the encoding process. So, if the first burn is good, all the other burns will be good.
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Always a good idea to archive your iDVD project rather than just doing an ordinary save. Takes up more disk space, but an archive bundles all of the project assets with it so everything is intact if you move it off to an external drive or another computer. Otherwise, you can get broken links.
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Looking on the Apple TV I am missing movies that were added by codes that came with purchases of Blu Ray versions. Examples would be Hunger Games, Madigascar 3, Star Trek.
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Actually, I just went into my iTunes account and right clicked on it, there is no option to play it as with other movies or if I double click them they don't play. But they show up in my iTunes account.

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I bought a couple of iTunes LP albums a few years ago - one of those is no longer available.
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There were complaint some months ago when Disney removed titles from teh store/cloud though cloud access was restored later.
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With the newest Airport firmware (7.6.1), it seems I should be able to do this.
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