My downloaded films from iTunes are no longer viewable

My downloaded films from iTunes are no longer viewable.
I bought a lot of films from iTunes since ive had my Mac and now all of a sudden it wont let me view any of my movies, anyone got any ideas why ?

Hi Winston Churchill -
Nothing comes to mind, but lots of things could have happened between then and now. There are the obvious software updates that take place - either via Apple or other third party stuff - but I don't have anything installed that I know of that would be an 'enhancement' to iTunes or AppleTV.
That said, I ended up forcibly removing all movies from AppleTV by unmarking the sync boxes in iTunes, and then syncing with the Apple TV. I then broke the sync between AppleTV and iTunes, and then re-selected my iTunes library from AppleTV. Finally, in iTunes, I re-established the syncing with my movies and now they all play correctly.
A lot of gyrations for sure, but it made things start working again. I'm still curious why movies downloaded after 5/17/08 wouldn't play... perhaps a change in Apple's DRM that manifested itself in an unexpected way? Who knows? But at least it's working again.
Thanks everyone!
TRB

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