Repeat Function for Video?

Just got my ATV. Very cool. With an 8mb connection can watch the trailers in rediculously high quality playing on a 1080i monitor with no waiting. I'm really surprised. This is going to be big.
I was wondering if I am missing something or if there is no repeat function for video. Like, if you wanted to just have music videos playing in the background like you would music? Or, do you have to physically choose each show?

Anyone figured out if this is possible? Would be nice for kiosk, roadshow, window display type use if you could:
1) Set a piece of video content to loop or repeat.
2) Create a playlist of videos that would play one after the other without human interaction.
3) Randomly play videos from a playlist of videos without human interaction. (Similar to an audio shuffle function)
So far, trying a playlist in iTunes with video in it doesn't seem to work. The only place you can get at it in the Apple TV menu is through Music and then it errors saying there's no music in that playlist.
This would be great for digital signage applications too. You could set up the content you wanted in a particular playlist via iTunes and have the Apple TV sync/stream that particular content without having someone use the remote.
Doesn't look like there is any of this functionality built in at this point.
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