Moving a Movie between Apple TVs

Started an iTunes rented movie on my ATV. Shortly thereafter I wanted to transfer it to another ATV in another room. The second ATV would not complete the transfer because it was necessary to stop the playback on the first ATV. I understand that, and stopped playing the movie, but could not find a specific "stop" or "delete" control. After putting the first ATV to sleep and turning the Television off, I returned to the second ATV. After restarting it, the movie in question was recognized and available, but I continued to receive the same message and was unable to start the playback of the movie. So I started a different movie without difficulty, only to lose the cost of the first movie.
How can one stop and delete a rented iTunes movie on ATV, freeing the playback for another ATV?
Thank you.

A rental purchased through one Apple TV cannot be played on another device. In order to play it on multiple devices you would rent it through iTunes on your computer and Home Share it to the Apple TV(s).
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The iTunes Store Movie Rental FAQ states that "You can move the movie between devices as many times as you wish during the rental period, but the movie can only be viewed on one device at a time." I moved a rented movie from my Mac to my iPhone, but I can't figure out how to move the movie back to the Mac, even while the rental period is still valid.
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Unfortunately that isn't what I wanted to hear, but had a bad feeling that was the answer. My ATV's are synced from an external hard drive where all my music resides. I maintain a different library on my MB.
It would not be worth the time to link to another library for 1 movie. I guess I'll have to rent movies to that library and then I could move them to another computer or ATV is that correct?
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I'm having a problem moving rented movies back from my ATV to my iMac.
The scenario is I rent a movie in iTunes on the Mac, move it to the ATV, and after watching it I then try to move them back to the Mac before the rental expires. It won't transfer back even though I'm connected to the Internet.
The "move" option exists in iTunes (I can select either "move" or "delete") in the ATV box. If I select "move" the movie graphic moves over to the Rented Movies field. The problem is that after I click on Sync the movie flips back to the ATV box as soon as it completes syncing so it doesn't become available to watch on the Mac.
I've tried this on several occasions and with different movies. No luck. It looks like it should work but never has successfully transferred back. The iTunes & ATV software are all up to date.
Any ideas?

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Perhaps it's easier to understand my situation. We have a number of young adults in the house. They often want to watch the same movies we rent if we tell them if it's worthwhile. The ATV is in our bedroom and my wife & I don't fancy having a half-dozen twenty-somethings piling on the bed to watch a rented movie. The Mac is in my home office. I would like to transfer movies back to it where they can watch or even transfer movies to an iPod & plug into a dock connected to the TV in our family room. I can't get the movie to transfer back (even though it originated on the Mac).
Normally any rented movies are in the ATV field (in my case called "Dad's Apple TV") and there's "move" & "delete" buttons. What I have been doing is to click on Move and then Sync. The movie icon does initially move to the Rented Movies field but it pops back the ATV field just as it finishes syncing.
Now an interesting thing has turned up this morning. We had rented a movie ("Date Night"...thumbs down) last Friday, watched it last night (Monday), and went to iTunes this morning to try once again to transfer it back to our Mac. This time the movie does not show up in the "Dad's Apple TV" field in iTunes even though it's been less than 24 hours since we first started watching it. The only thing that may be different is we fell asleep watching the movie and woke up hours later with the screen saver on. I can't say we've ever left a movie running through the credits to the very end before now.
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Michele,
Thanks for giving me an idea to try. I may set up manual addresses and see if that helps. But that'll have to wait until I can be bothered!, Thanks.
Mr Churchill,
From your post, I suspect you are thinking along the lines of something generating interference on my wireless network.... I've not added anything or changed my configuration in any way - but there's always the neighbours I suppose.
When I first moved to my current flat, it took some time to find a good spot for the Time Capsule and select the right channel, but when I was having problems, my internet access was badly affected and network transfer speeds were ropey - this isn't the case with this problem.
I'll monitor the situation for a while and see if anything changes. I'll post back if I find anything conclusive.
Thanks again.
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