Why I can stream audio to my apple TV but not movies I rented on iTunes?

I'm able to stream music to my TV but not TV shows or movies.  What gives?  Any ideas?

appletv can be used as remote speakers same way as airport express can
appletv can if one have mtn lion and a supported mac do airplay mirror which also send the computers display to the appletv it though require the video card of the mac to support encryption to  H.264 in realtime as the lagg would otherwise be a problem
here you can see if your mac is on the supported list and how to enable airplay mirror if it is
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5404
if it's not supported then youc an try the 3th party program called airparrot which is suppose to work on older macs but there could be performance issues and lagg between what is shown on the mac and the tv

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