Time Capsule (Dual Band), iTunes and tv

Here is my little story.
I had an airport extreme, with a usb disk holding my iTunes library. I run two tv's (wirelessly) and things were fine. At times iTunes would give me a spinning beach ball, but streaming tv shows and movies to the tv,s worked well.
Then came 7.4.1 (airport extreme)
Streaming tv or movies became impossible with tv re buffering every 30 secs.
Downgrading to 7.3.x fixed the problem.
Being an apple tragic and living 650 klm's from my wife and children, I convinced myself that I needed a new toy, so of to the apple shop (150 klm's away) to get the new dual band extreme. I didn't even think of the firmware issue, thinking the new one would just work!!!
Somehow I left the store with a shiny new 1TB TC (blast apple)
Well of course after waiting 6 hours for my itunes library to transfer to TC, I fired up the tv and set about watching an episode of Damages.
Unfortunately the TC and firmware version 7.4 (shipping firmware) was as bad as the external disc and the airport extreme on 7.4.1
I upgraded the TC firmware to 7.4.1, there is no before 7.4, blindly think this might fix things, but no luck.
I reverted to plugging in the usb disk and running iTunes via the TC to the usb drive, again no luck, stop start streaming.
I then plugged the usb disk into my laptop and surprises surprise, streaming via network to tv was flawless, like my good old days.
Not a long term solution, I have spent two days reading all the posts on 7.4.1, TC and tv.
Tonight I hooked up the extreme, connected it via cable to the TC, turned off the extreme radio and plugged the usb disk in to the extreme. the extreme is running 7.3.x.
Pointed iTunes to the library on the usb disk, sat down and watched the episode of Damages.
Amazingly this arrangement works, and streaming is smooth.
Now I am no tech wizard, but something is clearly amiss with 7.4.1 and disks.
If anyone knows away to get the TC playing nice with streaming to the tv then it would be nice to hear, otherwise ebay will have to wait for the old extreme!
Anyway just wanted to share, after many frustrating hours.

Good post thanks for that. I agree something is wrong with 7.4.1 on both extreme and express as well. I had a lot of problems extending my network and only managed to fix things by reverting back to 7.3.x
I'm planning no getting TC and appletv soon, so l'm hoping the a revised software update emerges before then. It looks like you've had some real dramas.
Good luck.

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