Syncing video across several Apple TV units

Hi,
I want to use a NAS and several AppleTV units as a audio/video distribution system at home. I know that you can sync audio between different units but is it possible to do the same with video? What I want to be able to do, for example, is to be watching a film in the living room (streamed from the NAS) and go into the kitchen and carry on watching the film in there. Can this be done by just syncing streams with the iTunes playlist? If so would this cause the film to restart from the beginning?
Thanks in anticipation,
Leo

Youc can do this with a MAC Pro as a server and sync audio, video, photos, podcasts etc for whole house. I have 4 ATV1 and 1 ATV2 doing this now. I can watch a different movie on every ATV simultaneously or any combination of audio or video.
You just need to make sure to have the horse to drive this depending on how far your going to take it, I use Quad Core Mac Pro which eats it all without struggling at all. The other thing that I found is don't try to put more than 2 ATV with streaming video on each access point (I have3) and make sure they are set to N Only (allowing 802.11g on the same access point reduces performance.. I make all the 802.11b/g stuff connect to another access point. I only have one ATV2 and don't know if it handles the performance better most likely will just keep my setup the same as I eventually replace ATV1s
You can still use the NAS as Network storage and tell iTunes on the MAC that the NAS is where the library lives.
You could do it with any MAC, I just chose to use MAC Pro desktop as home PC/Media Server. It has to be on all the time which mine is, reboots once daily. I also have it serving up home automation.

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