Why do I have to reboot my Apple TV2 to watch rented movies?

When I rent a movie from iTunes on my ATV2, I do not get the option to watch it, it just offers the option to rent the film again.
When I reboot the ATV2, the 'play' option appears, but I don't really want to do this each time.
Has anyone else had similar?

The Apple TV may be getting confused by connection issues, this may be HDMI, but may be more likely to be a network issue, have you tried another wifi channel to try to eliminate interference.

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Here's a problem which I've discovered since the latest software update for the appleTV:
I regularly rent movies via the iTunes store on my iPad2. Usually in standard def. I've had no trouble in the past viewing said videos on AppleTV - appearing in the top left of the Apple TV home screen under 'Purchased' or 'Rented' items.
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d.

I don't recall rentals made on an iPad ever also being available on AppleTV direct - they're not supposed to be:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1657?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
It's a long time since I rented on an iPad so that's not to say it never happened I just don't recall that you werer supposed to be able do to this.
Airplay however should work.
Funnily enough I tried Airplaying a movie my kids had started to watch on teh AppleTV2 yesterday and got audio only. This was from a local iTunes library so easy to do direct on the unit - I'd only tried Airplay as it should have continued from where they were watching rather than ahving to manually naviagte to there.
AC

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