Apple TV shows take 15 hours to download, HD movies take minutes, why??
This I ridiculous. I've purchased Breaking Bad Season 2 and cannot even watch it on my Apple TV. It says a show will take 15+ hours to download whilst a HD movie will download immediately. Why is this so?
What kind of internet connection speed do you have?
If you have 3Mbps DSL like I do, and are renting movies on either Apple TV model in HD Format, then it will take quite a while. Actually 3 Hours for an HD Movie would be failry fast here at my home. They are just large files. If I'm going to rent an HD movie, I will usually rent it earlier in the day and watch it when I'm ready.
If you have an adequate internet connection, and just want to rent movies on the fly and don't care about HD, on the AppleTV v2 you can go to Settings / General / iTunes Store / Video Resolution... and select Standard Definition. With our 3Mbps DSL connection, when we rent a movie it is generally "Ready to Play..." within about 2 minutes at the most (enough time to grab a beer and get comfortable)
As far as I know, Standard Definition movies still show on the same menu as the HD version with the ATV v1. I preferred that menu format myself because you didn't have to change the option in settings when you wanted to go back and forth.
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Does it always take hours to download a movie through the apple tv when you rent from I tunes
Does it always take hours to download a movie through apple tv when renting a movies through itunes?
This is dependent on your network connection. Check www.speedtest.net
6mbps is required for instant HD rentals
You can switch to SD in the settings if on a slower connection -
It takes hours to download a movie either on Apple TV or Mac and most of the time doesn't download at all. To me it is a bad app and I think I'll stick to Netflix or Xfinity
Welcome to the Apple Community.
The first thing to check would be your internet download speed, you can do this at www.speedtest.net.
1080p HD movies require a recommended speed of 8 Mbps, 720p HD movies require a recommended speed of 6 Mbps, while SD movies require a recommended speed of 2.5 Mbps.
Netfix uses adaptive streaming, if you have a slow connection it will reduce the quality of the video, iTunes ensures you get the quality you pay for. -
Apple TV taking 25 hours to download a movie from purchase in iTuntes library. Worse, I only have 24 hours to watch? Anyone help why this is happening?
How fast is your internet - sounds as though it's 1Mbps or less?
For HD movies 6Mbps is needed for near instant playback.
AppleTv has to prebuffer much of the movie to allow uninterrupted playback if you have <6Mbps, how long this takes depends on the average connection speed - at 3.5 Mbps currently it takes around 40 mins for mine to buffer HD whereas Sd is near instant to play.
AppleTV2 has limited memory and using it to do other tyhings while a rental is prebuffering can flush any downloaded protion requiring you to start again from scratch - it can be better to rent in iTunes then once it's fully downloaded play on AppleTV under Computers>iTunes library>Rentals column.
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Upload and download speed is horrible. it takes hours to download a movie from iTunes.
upload and download speed is horrible. it takes hours to download a movie from iTunes.
VangieChuck the problem is definitely not iTunes it is your ISP download provision. Either your ISP needs to make a service call and solve your bandwidth issues or you need a better service, granted it all depends where in the world you are located. In Kappy's and my neck of the woods we are use to 5 - 250 Mbps download rates with an average of about 25 mbps for most city dewellers. Upload will vary depending on your service.
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Recently I rented a movie on Apple TV, but it took ~5 hours to download it to my chagrin. Is that normal? Later, I down loaded my second movie rental (3-hours), watched a portion,came back to resume viewing, and had to slowly down load it a second time. Wha' hoppened?
What is the actual speed of your conection (www.speedtest.net)
8mbps required for instant 1080P
6mbps for 720P
Check istumbler or netstumbler for network interference
Make sure you're on your ISPs DNS -
Why does Apple.tv take hours to download a movie rented through iTunes
I have rented a movie from ITunes and have changed the video resolution in iTunes Store to 720p HD but taking over 5 hours to download. Is this normal as I am finding it very frustrating? I have a Telstra Bigpond ADSL wireless connection.
That would be dependent on your network
What is the current connection via speedtest.net
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HT5731 why does it take hours to download a 1/2 tv show after it's purchased?
Why does it take hours to download a 1/2 TV show after purchase?
Hello allison224
Check out the articles below, it will give a starting point to troubleshooting the download speeds of a TV show form the iTunes Store.
iTunes Store: Download times will vary
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1577
Well known TCP and UDP ports used by Apple software products
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1629
iOS and OS X: Recommended settings for Wi-Fi routers and access points
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4199
Regards,
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Why does it take 6 or 7 hours to download a movie on apple tv
Why does it take 6 or 7 hours to download a movie on apple tv
Does_apple_read_these wrote:
I have an 80 Mbps internet download connection and it took 5 hours to download a movie with standard definition from itunes with my apple tv. It took 3 minutes when I used netflix on my ps3. Where is apple supports response to these issues?....there are thousands of posts of people with the same problems! Speedtest.net confirms my download speed is 80 Mbps! I have reset and restarted my apple tv and download speeds of movies are still unacceptably slow! What is the point of these discussions when Apple techs don't even read or respond to our posts?
Not using OpenDNS by any chance? Using OpenDNS has caused issues as some Apple server access gets re-routed to slow servers (Akamai servers from memory). -
after updating to 6.0, it takes hours to download a tv show. even in standard definition. any idea why?
Well... you can buy iPhoto 6 for about 80 bucks (and get the rest of the iLife bundle for free to do with as you please), or you can spend about 80 bucks for something like FotoMagico to do some of the things you can do with iPhoto and iMovie. Both are pretty good software bundles -- some people have bought (and use) both.
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Why does it take 3 hours to download a movie on apple tv? Is there a solution??
What kind of internet connection speed do you have?
If you have 3Mbps DSL like I do, and are renting movies on either Apple TV model in HD Format, then it will take quite a while. Actually 3 Hours for an HD Movie would be failry fast here at my home. They are just large files. If I'm going to rent an HD movie, I will usually rent it earlier in the day and watch it when I'm ready.
If you have an adequate internet connection, and just want to rent movies on the fly and don't care about HD, on the AppleTV v2 you can go to Settings / General / iTunes Store / Video Resolution... and select Standard Definition. With our 3Mbps DSL connection, when we rent a movie it is generally "Ready to Play..." within about 2 minutes at the most (enough time to grab a beer and get comfortable)
As far as I know, Standard Definition movies still show on the same menu as the HD version with the ATV v1. I preferred that menu format myself because you didn't have to change the option in settings when you wanted to go back and forth. -
Why does it take over two hours to download a movie on Apply tv
Why does it take over two hours to download a movie on Apple TV
ThanksWelcome to the Apple Community.
The first thing to check would be your internet download speed, you can do this at www.speedtest.net.
1080p HD movies require a recommended speed of 8 Mbps, 720p HD movies require a recommended speed of 6 Mbps, while SD movies require a recommended speed of 2.5 Mbps.
Netflix uses adaptive streaming and can reduce quality right down to produce a stream as low as 0.5 Mbps. -
Hello, it says it will take 65 hours to download a movie that was already purchased on the Cloud, How do I speed up the process. It says to go to Setting in I- tunes Store and select a lower video resolution but I don't see the Settings symbol in I tunes store. How do I select a lower setting and is that the best way if I bought the movie on HD?
No programs can load websites
* https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/No%20programs%20can%20load%20websites
Check and tell if its working. -
HT3951 why would it takes 15 hours to download a movie rental on my computer?
Why would it take 15 hours to download a movie rental on my laptop this year, and last year it worked?
What is the download speed of your ISP? Go to speedtest.net and test it and report back.
I downloaded two HD movies over the weekened at about 3.2GB each and it took less then 30 minutes each. -
Why does it take 7 hours to download a movie?
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Does_apple_read_these wrote:
I have an 80 Mbps internet download connection and it took 5 hours to download a movie with standard definition from itunes with my apple tv. It took 3 minutes when I used netflix on my ps3. Where is apple supports response to these issues?....there are thousands of posts of people with the same problems! Speedtest.net confirms my download speed is 80 Mbps! I have reset and restarted my apple tv and download speeds of movies are still unacceptably slow! What is the point of these discussions when Apple techs don't even read or respond to our posts?
Not using OpenDNS by any chance? Using OpenDNS has caused issues as some Apple server access gets re-routed to slow servers (Akamai servers from memory).
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