Rented film on Mac won't play on ATV

Hi can someone help me pls. I have just brought ATV and I am having problems watching rented films from my Mac to ATV. I live on a boat so my broadband is slower than what you get in a house. I was hoping to go to my mums and download a few films each week on to my Mac so I can playback on to ATV. My problem is it's not showing on ATV my rented films. Please can someone help me out thanks.

Search the iTunes help files on the Apple support pages as I am sure there is lots of info about authorzing other computers.
But off the top of my head, one work around to this issue is to simply burn an audio CD on your PC with a playlist of your purchased songs or how ever many CDs you need to do it (CD-RW discs might be a good tool for this). You can then put those CDs into your Mac and import the tunes and now the "authorization" info/protection will have been stripped from them and you won't have that issue with them anymore.
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This rental problem is a serious bug in Apple TV and it should be fixed. Rentals should play seamlessly and smoothly but playing doesn't work at all in some cases, and only after tons of troubleshooting in other cases. Why is this such a problem, Apple? I feel like asking for a refund not only for the movie but for the Apple TV. If I didn't hate my cable company more, I'd probably do that.
What do other people do when this happens? I have read numerous threads on this here and none of the advice works for my situation. Maybe someone else has done the secret magic trick to get it to work. Waiting to hear from the wizard.
And may I respectfully add, the Apple tech speak here that is used in trying to help people with this problem is amazing. "Istumbler and netstumbler check for interference on the network. Also check for ISP throttling" -- let me assure you Apple help, most people have no effing idea what that means. Whatever happened to Apple products being EASY to use?

I'd report the problem to the iTunes Store.
Log in to the Store. Click on "Account" in your Quick Links. When you're in your Account information screen, go down to Purchase History and click "See all".
Find the item that is not playing properly. If you can't see "Report a Problem" next to the item, click the "Report a problem" button. Now click the "Report a Problem" link next to the item.

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No idea what's going on here. I posted a question which I will paste below. Someone posted some suggestions for me (Dave Sawyer if I remember the name correctly, thanks again!) which lead me to ask wheter I was or was not supposed to have a file named cd info.cidb in a certain folder.
Now all of a sudden my thread is gone and I find the following mail in my inbox:
NoName posted "Re: brand new mac won't play/recognise/mount audio-cd's" in "brand new mac won't play/recognise/mount audio-cd's" on Aug 1, 2008 4:21:01 PM.
You wouldn't have that file unless you used iTunes to get CD metadata from Gracenote. I hate Gracenote, therefore I have never had that file on my system
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The origial question post was the following:
Hi all!
I am totally new to the macbussines (got one for a month now) and not using cd's much I never tried importing one untill today... and it simply won't. I think it's supposed to show the audio-cd on the desktop and give me an 'import cd' button in itunes whenever I insert an audioCD right?
It won't do... it'll take it in, turn it a few times and slide it right out again.
What I tried so far:
* toying with itunes settings for importing (import cd & eject, show CD, ask to import cd etc)
* toying with the cd&dvd preferences under system preferences
* click the mount 'button' in disk utility as was suggested in all those threads regarding cd's not mounting first time (my cd's won't mount the second or 30th time either)
* resetting the PRAM
Nothing so far.
It does recognise DVD's but no audio cd's whatsoever, originals, burned ones. You name it. As I don't use CD's a lot the newest CD dates from 2003, but that can't be it, can it?
Any suggestions would be highly appreciated...
o/
Am I going para? Where did my post go? It's totally gone, not even under 'my posts' or anywhere...
Still no solution either... suggestions still welcome therefor

My guess is that someone didn't like that I said I didn't like Gracenote.
Anyway, I Googled for your thread and luckily found it intact in the iTunes for Windows forum and posted a condensed reply there for you.

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Thanks for the question. I understand you are having issues with Authorizing your computer to play content. The following articles may help to resolve this issue:
iTunes repeatedly prompts to authorize computer to play iTunes Store purchases
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1389
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1277
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Every time I try to use Airplay to stream the movie from my Ipad the Apple TV 2 returns the message that is not authorize to play the content from the iPad.
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MickCharles wrote:
It is supposed to function as i described (true/false?)
False, per the link provided above:
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MickCharles wrote:
i'm renting SD movies from iT so copyright issues are in the full control of AAPL on all AAPL devices
I don't know the legal agreements between Apple and movie studios, but with a rental you don't own the material so I suspect that is the difference. With a purchase you're given some leeway that you don't have with a rental.
MickCharles wrote:
It has functioned as described; rented iT movies on iP and played through ATV to Video Monitor on many occasions in the past - as recent as 8 days ago.
Your original post mentioned that purchases worked, not rentals. Have you ever seen a rental stream from your i-device to Apple TV? I wouldn't think so, given Apple's statement above.
MickCharles wrote:
All other streaming functions from iP and iPh to ATV; music, photos, and home-made video function
These would not be subject to the same copyright issues as a movie.
You can try taking this up with Apple, and depending on who you communicate with (and your approach) may determine your success to get a refund. Apple does state that you can't stream a movie from your device to ATV, but perhaps not clearly enough (which you might use to your advantage).

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