My movies freeze while watching

Hello, the last two movies that I purchased on Apple TV continue to freeze while you watch it. You have to wait several minutes for it to continue playing but as soon as is starts it will freeze again, what can I do?

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*Further support for this:*
I recommend a disk image burned to Verbatim DVD-R at 4X or slower using Toast or Disk Utility.
David Pogue also recommends Verbatim on page 356 of his latest book:
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Since Lion I sometimes have a serious freeze while watching videos.
It does not occur very often, it happens every month or so.
After upgrade to Mountain Lion I thought it would not happen anymore but this problem still persists.
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I used the installation DVD to repair Disk Permission also
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Hi there,
this is my first post here and im happy to become a member in this great community.
Further sorry for my bad english.....
Now my problem and i hope you can give me some advice to solve my problem.
I have a problem to watch Flash Movie in Safari, after some minutes my MacBook freeze and i must shutdown the book.
The same problem is while i wachting movies with the VLC-Player....the OSX Lion is up-to date.
Thanks for help......
MacBook Pro early 2011 15,4" i7 CPU, ATI Radeon 6750, 8GB RAM

Maybe this thread here helps: After Installing OS X Lion iMac freezes while watching flash videos!
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