Playing movies on Apple TV after buying them with my laptop vs my desktop

Ok, I have learned something about iTunes/Apple TV and purchasing media content at the iTunes store. This may help someone. I bought the movie Push using my Mac laptop and with the latest version of iTunes that allows you to share libraries so you can copy from one computer to the other one I copied the movie back to my desktop PC. Then, I synced the movie to the Apple TV. Well, last night I wanted to watch the movie on my TV using my Apple TV and guess what? It wouldn’t let me! It said that my Apple TV was not authorized to play that movie, and I went huh? Why not!?
Well I learned that the movies I purchase using another computer and not my PC (main computer) cannot play on Apple TV unless I add the other computer’s library to the Apple TV. So basically I went to the menu on the Apple TV and under settings I added the new library. I had to open iTunes on my Mac and under devices I clicked on the Apple TV and entered the code that the Apple TV gave me. And then I could watch the movie I bought using my Mac!
I still have a problem with this though, in order to watch the movie or movies I buy using my Mac, I actually have to have the Mac on, otherwise the option “Shared Movies” on the Apple TV menu is gone.
Does anyone know how to go around this? I want to be able to watch movies without turning on my laptop. I know one solution will be to download them to my PC, but when I am traveling I could download a movie or 2 and watch them when I come home.
Thanks!

Victor Romero1 wrote:
I will try that, however, it seems to me that the only way I will be able to do this is by having my Mac turned on. I don’t know I just have the funny feeling, we’ll see.
you'd need the mac on to put the movie on to the appletv anyway surely.

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