Rented iTune movies over ATV gives only buzzing sound - no other audio

Purchased a movie for the first time on Apple TV 2 over iTunes. Picture is OK, sound is a loud buzzing. No other audio. Everything else sounds fine on ATV. I have watched Netflix movies, podcasts, and owned material with no problem. HDMI connection from ATV directly to TV. Changed the audio settings to 16 bit and to Auto. Same result.

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I followed your procedure and did some testing. By setting the volume slider to +100%, the movie was louder on my Mac.
I then transferred the movie to my iPad and took my equipment to the facility where I play movies. I didn't have a pristine rental copy to test against, so I used my own DVD copy of the movie. This is what I found:
A) The best and strongest sound was when the the T40 speakers were directly connected to the DVD player's RCA sound jacks and the video was coming thru the hdmi to the projector.
B) The worst (quietest) sound was when the speakers took their input from the mini-stereo jack of the projector, with the video and sound coming from the dvd player thru hdmi.
C) I compared this with the +100% sound-increased movie rental running on my iPad, with hdmi connection to the projector and sound coming from the mini-stereo jack of the projector to the T40 speakers. This was definitely much louder than "B" above. So I can safely say that the sound boost performed on the rental movie on my Mac did copy over to the iPad.
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Rented iTune movies over ATV gives only buzzing sound - no other audio

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