Using DLNA to view movies from iTunes

I'm running iTunes on a Windows 7 PC and purchasing digital movies from Amazon, Blockbuster and a few other sites.  Converting them to M4V is not a problem and I can view all movies on my PC thru iTunes.  I haven't gotten Apple TV yet and use my Blue-Ray unit with DLNA to view them on my TV  Problem is that I can only see 60~70% of the movies on iTunes. Is there a limit on how many movies can be listed???  Help please

Multiple AppleTVs are the options I use.
If you want to go a non-Apple route you'd probably have a DLNA compliant central server (often an off the shelf box) but it would either need additional AppleTV like boxes to hook up to the TV, client capability in the TV to access the network or a games console/BluRay player or similar which could access content from the server.
http://www.dlna.org
Apple's system is not DLNA compliant - my experience using DLNA has been a very mixed bag using a PS3 and Sony Blu Ray player to try to play stuff from a WD NAS (or PS3 media center software on a computer which requires java or at least used to).
I tried a few WD boxes a few years ago but was less than impressed.  I stopped buying them just before the WD Live came out which may have been the one that nailed things I wanted but by then I didn't want another unused box.
AC

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