Rented Movies On Apple TV Will Not Play.

I rented an HD movie today and it has taken about 3 hours to download 21%.
It will not allow me to watch the movie at all.
I thought there was instant viewing after only a couple of seconds?
Is anyone else having this problem?

I just downloaded the Apple TV last night and decided to rent a HD movie.
After abot 20 mins or so the box still was not ready to play the movie and re-booted mid download. Once it was back up and running I went to the downloads, checked for downloads and found the movie. Since it was now to late to watch a movie I left it and checked in the AM. Movie was "ready to watch" but I was not ready to watch a movie over breakfast. Now when I look for it in my movies it is not there. Am I looking in the correct place?
Called Apple to ask them but they could not tell me because my Apple care support had expired. Happy to charge me $40 to get my $4.00 movie though...Hope this is not the experience others are having.

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