Ready to play in 1 hour forever.... no solutions!

Bloody Flaming Heck!
What is going wrong? Every time we try rent a movie from iTunes we get part of the way through it - from 5 minutes to 45 minutes - and the film freezes and we get the message "Ready to play in 1 hour and..." the length of time goes up and down, but wait for an hour and it stays an hour, may go down to 40 mins then back and by that time I lose patience and give up on the whole thing. I have even started to load the film up before we watch it, leaving the thing for an hour, which gets us going, then the whole thing happens again. This was not the case when we first bought the ATV, everything was fine.
Details are:
ATV2
Ethernet at 4Mbps
720 resolution
50hz
Other devices work fine
Netflix works fine
The ATV GUI is fast
I have search the forums etc far and wide and tried these remedies:
Unplug and reset the Modem/Router
Unplug and reset the ATV
Restarted the ATV
Reset the ATV
Changed Ethernet cables
Tried Wifi
Speedtested the connection online to verify an actual 4Mbps
Done the six second reset menu + down key
Changed the DNS to different things including google etc
NOTHING WORKS! To top it off the whole family get frustrated and Dad is left as the troubleshooter under fire!!
I am sick and tired of all this and can't believe there is no solution to this anywhere online...
Help me Obi Wan, you're my only hope!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do you mean iTunes rentals not stuff from your iTunes library?
Commonest issue is a slow internet connection.
Test your rates somewhere like speedtest.net.

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