Why won't home sharing work on my ATV3?

I can't get home sharing to work with my new ATV3. When I go to the Computers menu in my ATV3, nothing appears but the message telling me that all devices using the same Apple ID will be automatically located. I have followed all of the configuration instructions and troubleshooting from the Apple help guides.
iTunes is running on my PC
I have turned on home sharing in iTunes and am sharing my entire library
I have connfigured TCP ports 123 & 3689 to be open in my router and firewall
I have configured UDP ports 123 & 5353 to be open in my router and firewall
I tried disabling IPV6
I tried rebooting my PC, router and ATV3
I can ping my ATV from my PC
I am running iTunes 11
ATV software is current version
ATV connects to WiFi fine
ATV connects to the iTunes store and streams Netflix fine
My PC is Windows 8 64 bit
Home sharing to my iPhone 5 works fine
I have searched on the internet and this seems to be a common problem with ATV.
Help anyone?
Thanks.

if you go to the appleTV menu - you should see a "computers" button as you say in your post, when you click on it, do you get the spinning apple logo and then an error / message, or does it just time out and return to the menu.
have you actually enabled home sharing on your apple TV device ? as it has to be enabled and signed into using the home sharing account, if you don't turn on home sharing on the apple TV device and enter the same username/password as your account being used on the library it won't pick up the library.
you know it's working on the iphone (as I'm guessing that syncs with the library device so shares the same account) which is good, so I suspect you just need to enable home sharing on the apple TV and enter the same account details as the library computer.

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