Watching rented movies on Apple TV - are they stored locally?

I've set up my new Apple TV and rented a movie. It said 20! hours to load - fine I left it over night and the next morning it was complete. I went to watch it in the evening and when I pressed play it started to load again!!
I'm confused - I thought the movies you rent are downloaded to the Apple TV and do not need to be re-loaded? If I need to re-load each time and it takes 20+ hours to do so, the ATV is a bit useless for me!
My internet speed is quite fast, and when I watch anything else online there's no issue. Why would it take so long to load on the Apple TV?
thanks.

I see this hasn't been answered yet. I've exactly the same problem and I'm not using Google DNS or OpenDNS.
My problem - I rent an SD movie from my 2nd gen Apple TV, leave it thinking it's downloading. Sit down the following evening to watch the film only to be told 'Loading... will be ready to watch in 3hrs...'. Darn. Decide, ok, I'll leave it till tomorrow night. Come the following night, sit down again to enjoy the movie, lo and behold I'm greeted this time with 'Loading... will be ready to watch in 1 hr 33 mins...'! What's going on???
I don't think this is good enough. I also own a 1st gen Apple TV and it never suffered from this - when you rented, it downloaded - none of this two day stop/start.
I read up on the Google DNS issue and I'm definitely not using it. So what's the problem?? At the moment, it pretty much makes the 2nd gen Apple TV fairly useless for me which is a real shame as I loved the old one.
Could we get an explanation of this issue or assistance on tracking the cause?
Thanks.

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