HD Movie Rentals on Front Row or just Apple TV

I saw the keynote where you can get HD movie rentals with apple TV. Will this be possible through Front Row on any computer or just with Apple TV?

Does iTunes Rentals work with Front Row, because the movies don't show up in my the movies list in Front Row?

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    lister

    Basically it's before that.. When I first start up frontrow and head to movies i get a list to choose from:
    iTunes Top films
    ThTrailers
    Movies folder(My movies)
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  • Why a bright green screen before movie plays on Front Row?

    Before I reinstalled Leopard the other day all .avi movie files on Front Row would play immediately on selection. Now, for a brief moment, the screen turns bright green before starting a number of the movies. Not all are affected. But those that are come from the same initial bit torrent source.

    It seems to be part of the file as it shows when playing direct on QuickTime. Interestingly there's no green screen when the same file is played on another computer. And it didn't happen on this computer before re-install. Also, when the same files are played in QuickTime the QT pane reduces in size to smallest possible in the first few seconds of playing. If I enter full screen, the pane size doesn't reduce.

  • HT3209 why does my movie rental download stop and reload just before it completes the download. I've tried 4 times now after waiting hours for the download. Ugh!

    why does my movie rental download stop and reload just before it completes the download. I've tried 4 times now after waiting hours for the download. Ugh!

    This Apple article might help ya out -> iTunes Store: "Error (-50)" when downloading purchased content
    Try following along with the article and deleting the cached downloads, then try again.

  • No "itunes top movie" in my front row

    I cannot find the "itunes top movie" option in the movie section of Front row, anyone can give me some suggestion how can i find out that option please?
    I already updated the front row and itunes.
    ITunes 8.1 and Front Row 2.1.7
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    Douglas McLaughlin wrote:
    The top movies are based on the country of your selection for the iTunes store.
    Actually, the top movies/music of Front Row 2 are not related to iTunes at all. I think the store is derived from the IP address initiating the request to Apple's servers.
    To fix your problem, open a Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities), paste the following command:
    *defaults delete com.apple.frontrow MusicStoreFrontID && killall "Front Row"*
    then hit enter. Now, you can relaunch Front Row and you should have your top movies restored.
    Also, as Douglas noted, you must have a working internet connection for this content to be available.

  • Movie library from Front Row

    i just realized that my front row is gone.  I need to know where my library of movies has disappeared to so that I can still access those. Help, please.

    Front row went away with Lion. Depending on hoe you updated your movies may still be in your movies folder. Movies can also be stored in iTunes.
    Wintry Wishes. May this season bring you the gifts of peace, hope and joy.

  • Can't play movie files in front row...

    Hello,
    I just got a new Macbook Pro (With lepoard) and cannot get my movie to play in Front Row. I could do it no problem in Tiger. I keep getting the message "The selected video could not be played--the format was not recognized."
    The picture of the video shows up next to it, but it does not play and gives the above message.
    Please help me out, as this is extremely frustrating. Thanks.

    I had the same problem (only with the trailers and top (Movies and TV), it was resolved (unfortunately I don't remember how, may be with an upgrade) and now I have it again. These are files created by apple therefore there is no reason why a 3rd party codec would be needed to play them.

  • Any way to have a movies playlist in Front Row?

    I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to set up Front Row (most recent version) so that it will play multiple movie files (within the movies folder) in a row? I'd like to set it and forget it sometimes and just have it play a bunch of things in a row. I could live with it if it just would play all contents of a folder sequentially, but ideally I'd love to see a playlist feature (like iTunes has for music) for movies. I would love to set up my own TV channel so to speak - lining up what's on each night. Or perhaps even utilizing something like a smart playlist that will dynamically create random viewing based on the criteria you specify for tags, etc.
    I read about someone who suggested saving movies (all of mine are Xvid - been using them on my Phillips DVD player for the last year) in QuickTime as "reference files" and then putting those into iTunes to trick the system (since Xvid won't play in iTunes). Would doing something like this allow for video playlists?
    Thanks!

    Not quite yet. However, the newest line of iPods, including the new iPod nano (video) does support playing video playlists. This would indicate that Apple is aware of this feature and it may be coming to other hardware or software in the future. I might suggest you send Mac OS X feedbac to Apple and request this feature in Front Row.
    -Doug

  • Removing Movie Title in Front Row

    I recently bought my new iMac 24" and have attempted to use Front Row, but see there is a title of a video showing on the Movie Menu that I do not want. I went to the User Movie directory, removed the file with that name, but the title still shows on the Front Row Movie Menu. I have tried to reboot the computer to no avail. I have tried to find a preferences folder that might be retaining this title in the cache but can't find one.
    Any idea how to remove this unwanted title from my Movies Menu?

    I have the same problem with Front Row Movie trailers. I connect to the internet via high speed DSL. Watching movie trailers takes at least 10-15 minutes to fully load. I have no other network activity taking place. I get the same message 'cannot connect to movie server' then I press PLAY on the remote and the trailer PLAYs instantly but hangs after only two seconds. If I wait another few minutes I get only another 2 seconds out of the trailer. This goes on two seconds at a time before I give up.
    What is the required datarate for the the movie trailer to play seemlessly anyway? Can somebody answer this?

  • Front Row v. Apple TV

    I've just got a mac mini and have hooked it up to my new LCD television. I love the fact I can use Front Row on it but one thing is bothering me. When I want to listen to music on it the screen remains static as the music plays. Now I've used Apple TV before and when you play music on that the screen flips and moves things around to prevent screen burn in. Why is this feature not available in Front Row? Is there anyway to make Front Row do that? And if there is no current way to do that, anyone know if the new Mac OS will have this feature for Front Row?

    Well, there's no way to change the settings now. I would send Apple some Mac OS X feedback:
    http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback/
    For what it's worth, the next version of Front Row, included for all Macs with the upcoming Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), looks much more like the Apple TV interface.
    http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/features/frontrow.html
    -Doug

  • HD movies good in iTunes/Front Row, not on Apple TV :(

    I have a library of 100+ HD movies, all of which play fine on my MacBook with 2GB RAM. Out of the group, only 30 show up on the Apple TV, and of those, only 4 play audio along with the video.
    Any ideas?
    Setup:
    - Apple TV 40GB, current software
    - Connected to Panasonic plasma via component & analog audio
    - Late 2007 MacBook, 10.5.6, 2GB RAM
    - iTunes 8.whatever, the latest
    - iTunes library stored on external 1TB WD MyBook

    Happy to report after much trial-and-error, I've been able to convert 80% of my videos using Handbrake (as MKVs, MOVs, and M4Vs). Here's the specs for those who are interested:
    OUTPUT SETTINGS
    - Format: MP4 file
    - Large file size (checked)
    VIDEO
    - Video Codec: H.264 (x264)
    - FPS: 23.98 (NTSC Film)
    - Average Bitrate: 4500 kbps
    PICTURE SETTINGS
    - Output: 1280 x (whatever height)
    - Keep Aspect Ratio (checked)
    - Anamorphic: None
    AUDIO & SUBTITLES
    Track 1
    - Audio Codec: AAC (faac)
    - Mixdown: Dolby ProLogic II
    - Samplerate: Automatic
    - Bitrate: 160 kbps
    Track 2
    - Audio Codec: AC3 Passthru
    - Mixdown: AC3 Passthru

  • Playing rental movies with front row

    Is there any way that they can upgrade front row so that i can watch rented movies through it? I'm a very lazy person and i want to watch my rented movies from my bed without moving. I can use the remote to watch most things but it won't let me play rented movies with it.

    Unfortunately, rental movies do not appear in Front Row. I believe this is because of the inability of Front Row to alert you (and have you click "okay") to the rental agreement requirements. It may also be because Front Row does not give iTunes feedback about when you started playing the movie and/or when you're done. If you would like to see rental movies in iTunes, as do quite a few people who post in this forum, I would suggest you send Apple some Mac OS X feedback (since there's no form specifically for Front Row):
    http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
    -Doug

  • Rented Movies not showing up in Front Row

    So I was able to "rent" 300 from the iTunes store. I accepted all of the terms and agreements. The download starts. I go to Front Row and look under movies and there is no 300. There is also no section for "Rented Movies". Is this a mistake? Does the whole movie need to download before it will show up?

    I'm having the same problem. I contacted Apple tech support about it through the response button on my itunes receipt. All I got was a link to other tech support pages with no relationship to the issue. I sent another complaint to the tech support link on one of those links and all I got was a response with more useless links. I'll give them credit for promptness, but they didn't even acknowledge the Front Row issue, let alone offer a fix. (And yes, I did update to the new Front Row that came out this week before trying the rental.)
    Did Apple just blow it and forget to add rentals to Front Row? Tech support sure does seem to be in the dark.
    Jeff

  • Rentals don't work with Front Row?

    I've upgraded to iTunes 9, and I have Front Row 2.1.7, so how come I can't see iTunes rentals in Front Row? Does it just not work for rentals?

    You are correct, they don't work. Since Front Row has no dialog boxes or way to interact with the user (all of the controls must work with the Apple remote), I don't think there's any way for it to verify, the way iTunes does, if you want to initiate the rental movie. I would send Apple some Mac OS X feedback (since there's no feedback for Front Row specifically) if you'd like to have rentals added to Front Row:
    http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
    -Doug

  • How to tell Front Row to look for movies on a USB drive?

    I'm working on getting all my dvd's on two 500gb usb drives - using Handbrake to encode everything. This is much faster with a new 2.4ghz 24" iMac by the way (6-8hrs on my 1.8ghz athlon vs 1-2 with the iMac...woohoo).
    What I'm trying to do is get the movies (on the usb drives) to show up in Front Row. One way I know of is by making an alias for each movie and moving the alias to my "Movies" folder on the main HD. This is a little tedious. When I simply drag and drop it in the "Movies" folder it just copies it and that is not what I want. Is there a way to just tell Front Row where to look for the movies? If I use iTunes the same thing happens, it just transfers all movies to the main HD...nevermind. I unchecked the box that said to copy everything.
    The plan was on using iTunes for movies I encode specifically for iPods exclusively, searching through 600+ movies to get a few for the iPod doesn't seem user friendly.
    So the question remains. Is there another way to get Front Row to just see the movies on another drive without iTunes or using an alias for each one or are those 2 my only choices?

    I'm glad you got it figured out. Front Row actually looks for movie files in two places. First, as you've discovered, it looks inside your user's "Movies" folder. An alias there pointing to a different location will lead Front Row to the other location. Also, Front Row looks inside iTunes for movies. This way, it can find TV shows, music videos and movies purchased from the iTunes Music Store. Another option, besides making an alias in your "Movies" folder, would be to add the movies to iTunes.
    -Doug

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