HT1657 why does it take so long to download a movie on my ipad?

Everytime Im going to take a flight I try and download a movie and it takes days to do it.  Why? Should it not take minutes? Very frustrating!

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.

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  • HT1595 Why does it take so long to download a movie?

    Why does it take so long to download a movie on Apple TV

    How long is "too long?"
    What's your actual (measured) Internet data rate?

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    Why does it take so long to download a movie rental from itunes. I am doing this to transfer to ipad.This is a question.

    I have noticed this here on several machines in our office, all running Leopard.
    I just did a test and subscribed to the same 16.8MB podcast on a machine running 10.4.11 and another running 10.5.8.
    The Tiger raced straight through and downloaded at a constant rate, taking about 15 seconds.
    The Leopard raced until 1.2MB downloaded and then slowed to a crawl, going up 0.1MB every 10 or 15 seconds.
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    I compared downloading an update from Support Downloads in Safari and there is no problem.
    So (for me) this issue is applying to Leopard rather than Tiger, and only to downloads via SU and ITunes, not regular http downloads through a browser.

  • Why does it take so long to download a movie on itunes

    I just purchased via Itunes a movie and it says it will take eight hours to download!  Why on earth would it take so long?

    Depending on the type of connection you have, most likely you're sharing that connection with your neighbors and if everybody is using it all at the same time you are probably having some reduced bandwidth.  Second, depending on the quality of the movie you're downloading (SD, 720p 1080i/p) it could be several gigabytes of data and that may take a long time.  Ten megabits per second isn't really that fast anymore when we are moving such large amounts of data.

  • Why does it take so long to download a movie from itunes onto our apple tv?

    Can you pleaes tell me why it is not documented that you have to wait several hours to download a film from itunes store onto our apple tv, stupidly we thought this would be instant!  We have changed our download resolution but still no help!!

    Because you apprently have a very serius network issue.  Purchased TV Shows and Movies can generally be viewed with in about 30 sec. of buying them.  I believe rented shows have to be fully downloaed before they can be viewed which depending on your internet connetion could take several hours or longer.

  • Why does it take so long to download a movie?

    I have now tried to rent twice two different movies: one on my computer and one from Apple TV on my TV. The first was going to take 9 hours plus to download and the second was going to take 5 hours and 45 minutes. At the suggestion of an Apple agent, I made sure I was downloading in standard definition, which even then was to take five hours and 1 minute. What's up with this. Netflix streams flawlessly from my Apple TV and Amazon from my computer.

    Most likely a slow internet connection.
    Check somehwere like speedtest.net
    Netflix adapts quality downwards for slower connection speeds whereas itunes video is fixed size - if you are below a certain threshold speed the video has to buffer before AppleTV will play an itunes rental (or it would play/rebuffer/play etc etc).
    SD requires 2.5 Mbps, 720p HD 6 Mbps and 1080p HD 8 Mbps to play near instantly.
    AC

  • Why does it take so long to download a movie with my mini ipad?

    I rented a movie on my mini ipad trough itunes and so far it has taken 40 minutes to download half the movie. I would like to have a refund on my credit card. This will be the last time i try to rent a movie. I am very disappointed because i bought the connections necessary to be able to rent movies.
    Thank you
    Lise

    Hello Lisa,
    Your ISP is almost certainly the cause.   You can test your Broadband situation on this site and compare it with what your provider claims to provide.  But be aware, it is rare for providers to supply more than half their claimed supply rate; there's too many ifs and buts.   Your connections will be universal.
    Speedtest.net by Ookla - The Global Broadband Speed Test

  • HT1600 Why does it take so long to download movies

    Why does it take so long to download movies

    Welcome to the Apple Community.
    The first thing to check would be your internet download speed, you can do this atwww.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.

  • Why does it take so long to download on my iPad 2?

    Why does it take so long to download on my iPad? My wifi is strong and working perfectly with other computers.  Also, it's slow on my original iPad.

    natmac wrote:
    I did what was suggested above (closing all apps and then resetting the iPad). Then I tried to download the movie the Smurfs (for my kid ofcourse!). It's 3.4 GB. In the first hour I have downloaded 1 GB. So it looks like it's going to take at least 3.5 hours to download a movie.  Does this seem correct? My speed is 10 mbps.
    Sems a little high but not unreasonable.  Figure that a true 10Mbps would take almost exactly an hour for 3.4GB.  Your 10Mbps rate is the rate to the ISP, which is the absolute best that you can hope for.  Maneuvering data through the many switches in the Internet probably cuts that in half, which would mean two hours.  However, that means absolutely nothing because the weak link in the chain is the rate that the server can send the data.  Consider that we just had a major holiday with many children expecting many movies.  It wouldn't surprise me if the server can send only 2 or 3Mbps per subscriber.
    By the way, I do not agree that closing apps and resetting the iPad makes the slightest bit of difference.
    My theoretical rate is a tad shy of 5Mbps.  As best I can recall, movies take several hours to download.  My routine is to start the download as I'm going to sleep.  The movie is then available the next day.  No fuss, no bother.

  • Why does it takes so long to download the new version of Itunes?

    why does it takes so long to download the new version of Itunes?

    Since you cannot download iTunes on an iPod touch, this would not seem to be the correct forum for this question. I'd suggest you post full details of your problem in either the iTunes for Mac forum or the iTunes for Windows forum, as applicable to your system.
    Regards.

  • TS4223 why does it take SO LONG to transfer a movie form my Mac to Apple TV. It tales like an hour. I cannot stream it in the meantime. Very frustrated.

    why does it take so long to transfer a movie form iMac to apple TV hard dirve. This is crazy. it takes like an hour to move a movie that i rent on itunes on iMac to our apple TV. i am so tired of this i don't know what to do...

    I have the exact same problem. I purchased apple tv several years ago, and every time I go to rent or buy a movie it takes anywhere from 3 to 7 hours to download the movie. There is no spur of the moment "hey lets rent a movie tonight" because I know it will take overnight to complete the download. I've checked my internet speed and it spot on. I've noticed other threads with people having the same problem but no one seems to have a solution.

  • HT1577 why does it take so long to download a film i have been quoted 18hours for that i may as well buy the film on cd

    Why does it take so long to download from itunes I have been quoted 18hours but on the actual device it took 4 hours .When other sites can download films etc at a quater of the time such as amozon takes 30 mins for a HD film to download

    Well, I can't exactly answer why it's taking too long but here's the average time estimate depending on your internet speed:
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1577
    I hope this helps.

  • Why does it take so long to download software like Adobe to a Mac laptop

    I just recently bought a MacBook Pro and I am installing Adobe Reader and it is taking sooooo long to install.  I have been installing since 8:30 pm and its now 10:27 and its only up to 42%.  Why does it taking so long?  Also I have downloading other software and it took forever as well.  Why does it take son long to download software to the Mac?

    Something is obviously wrong.
    Stop the download and take the machine back to Apple as you have 90 days free support.
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    Did you by any chance change your DNS settings in Network?
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    To OpenDNS? On the router? Are you using your own router of it someone managing it for you?
    Are you over 21 and can you legally surf for adult sites? If some sort of filtering is on, this could be the cause.
    OpenDNS doesn't have servers everywhere, so it causes certain downloads from Akamai servers to come from a lot farther away than your ISP servers.
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  • Why does it take so long to download a saved movie from the cloud

    Why does it take so long to download a saved movie from the cloud

    Hi first off if your running  fcp 7 with compressor 3.5 and fcp x and compressor 4 on the same drive you may run into problems
    as you now have a mix up between Qmasters  which caused me lots of problems when i did any back ground Rendering via compressor of FCP-X
    i had to completly remove compressor 3.5 and compressor 4 then put compressor 4 back on again  as the shared rendering out of FCP-X seems to loose the plot with both versions on the same on the same drive there is an app
    Here
    http://www.digitalrebellion.com/fcsremover/
    which you can get allows you to get rid of certain bits of FCS and FCP-X correctly as you may know deleting the app is,nt the whole story as you need to remove the pref etc as well
    but its really clearing out every thing to do with qmaster thats is the thing here thats what causes all the issues
    really you should follow apple install instructions for FCP -X install ( and put it on separate volumes ) and i know they say there is a way to get every thing working on the same drive ...but it did,nt work for me like you i had massive render times and that 3x crash error
    any way
    once i had remove done my remove C3.5 ,C4 and reinstall C4 only it worked straight away from FCP-X using all the cores on my machine
    get some thing like istats or run activity monitor to make sure Fcp-x is using all your cores to render and you can actually see if its doing anything at all instead of waiting 5 hours for an error
    if you want to use multi core in compressor 4 you have to go into the new apple qmaster tab  and setup up a quick cluster etc
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    thanks
    G

  • Why does it take 3 hours to download a movie

    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.

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