Playlist organizing for Movies

I've created new folders and added playlists within the folders labeled as such: Drama, Children's Classics, Horror, Adventure... etc (Genre stuff)
I've placed my home brew movies in corresponding genre playlists. But Apple TV says that I can not hvae movies within music playlists, is there a way for me to organize my movies?
Thanks!
NYDUDE

Unfortunately organising movies in itunes/tv has not yet reached the levels that are possible with audio.
My work around has been to use symbols within the name of the movie to identify the grouping and to keep them together in the tv movie list:
For example: " ✈ Lady Churchill visits the pyramids. "
Which tells me it is a home movie in the vacation group. (The picture is actually an aeroplane, it shows up much better on the tv)
Not the best solution, but it's all I could think of to avoid a very long list of movies that were difficult to browse.

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The subject line pretty much sums it up but does anyone know why they took it away? It was seriously the greatest thing ever with my kid's tv shows. I could just turn on the playlist and they could watch a few episodes back to back without having to mess with the remote.

I don't think they have.
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Check AppleTV Setting menus and enable playlists for all not just music.
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Make sure the XP box is upgraded to the latest version of itunes. Also make sure it's using the itunes media folder layout as explained here, because that's what the W7 is going to be using.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3847
Install itunes on the new W7 PC.
Get these folders from the XP machine
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I have a lot of TV series that I have ripped into ipad compatible format. I want to be able to put them into a folder like a playlist for movies so I don't have to scroll forever to find them. If I need to use genre how do I tag the movies so they get sorted?

Use MetaZ to tag the files as TV Shows and the correct series and all other info.
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A. Use iTunes. Just as you would build a playlist with songs, do it with movies. Just drop movies inside iTunes Videos source (left column), then create a playlist and populate it with those videos. Then play it in fullscreen !
-- or --
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