TS3623 "An error occurred while downloading this content, try again later."

I have received this error message for over a week. I have tried resetting, restoring, unplugging, checked WiFi, connections, everything I've seen mentioned in other articles. Previews for ATV movies work, Netflix works, but newer purchases and rentals receive the error message. I recently upgraded my software and that seems to be when the trouble started. Airplay from my MacBook Pro to my ATV works. Any ideas?

I really wish it were. However, having read many of the hundreds of threads on this site devoted to this topic, I see that there are infinite workarounds that one can try, which may or may not resolve problems, there is no actual solution to the overall problem.
If you know differently, I invite you to provide the solution. But from what I gather, there is no solution to provide.

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    A number of people have reported similar issues recently, many appear to have found a discrepancy of some kind in their account settings and making changes to these settings or simply resetting them has resolved the matter.
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    2) It will be set to Auto , for some reason the DNS is being set to you router , not your service provider ...
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    http://www.charter.com
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    This error started appearing out of the blue today. And I'm nearly at my wits end with this, because no solution I could possibly think of makes any difference. I would get this error intermittently once a month or so, but unplugging ATV2 and doing a cold start would usually resolve this.
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    You are definitely NOT the only one here with this MAJOR issue: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2615363
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