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Not a ground breaking discovery here, but this greatly improved the usability of my Apple TV when finding movies to watch.

1) Go to http://www.movieweb.com/ and search for the movie(s) you have in iTunes.

2) Go to the movie’s theatrical release page and/or DVD page.  You’ll find images of the DVD cover or images of the various posters used to publicize the movie.  (Older movies have less of selection, but the DVD cover will be available).  Drag the image of the DVD cover or movie poster to your desktop or a folder you’ll store all your images in.

3) In iTunes find the movie highlight it by clicking on it once.  Now type Command-i or control-i to bring up the Info window for the iTunes file.  The last tab is ‘Artwork’ and it’ll be empty.  Click on the ‘Add’ button and select the image you just downloaded from movieweb.com to be the artwork for the movie.

4) You’re done.  Now when you browse your movie library in iTunes or on your Apple TV you’ll see this boxshot instead of the default image which is a frame of the movie, almost certainly not usable to visually define the movie.