HT4437 Cannot play protected movies on AirPlay from iPad

I cannot play a movie from my iPad to my Apple TV device. I get an error "cannot play protected movies". Why is this when I bought the digital copy with the Blu-ray Disc ?

I'm not aware of any third-party receiver that supports video over AirPlay, so you'll probably need an Apple TV. But then, as long as you have a WiFi network in your house, you should be able to play the movie through the Apple TV to your projector without needing Internet as long as the movie has completely downloaded. For more information on AirPlay see:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4437
In some cases, though, people have reported that even with the rental completely downloaded (or so they said) it still asked to connect to the iTunes Store, so it's not 100% reliable, it seems.
Regards.

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Because the CD does not have digital encryption that has to be broken. As I said above, what is illegal is the breaking of the encrytion. It isn't so much the actual copying of the DVD content itself, which one could argue could be legal in many different "fair use" applications.
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www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf
www.copyright.gov/title17/chapter12.pdf
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In a different post, you asked:
Phase10117 wrote:
So r u telling me that I can only look at a movie from my iTunes account on the device that it was download from. This doesn't set very well me. U should b able to your purchase movies from your cloud. Is apple working on this resolution?
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I am saying not the device, but the Apple ID is what needs to be the same, unless the movie is rented.
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I then used Airplay Mirroring to send the movie to my Apple TV.
The Apple TV is connected to a Vizio V0370M HDTV.
According to Vizio all of the HDMI ports have HDCP.
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I had exact same problem and I have found a way to get round out!!!! Easy!
So the reason it doesn't allow it to play is for security to stop piracy etc.
Plug in the cable and VGA and aux cable and get everything set up so you are looking at the home screen.
1) select Videos
2) selected the film you want to watch
3) click the little play button
4) it will then come up with the message saying it can't play protected films blah blah blah
5) WITHOUT clicking ok double tap the home button to bring up the multitasking bar and swipe left to reveal the control panel
6) hold fast forward for a second or two and the movie with continue to play!
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I'm sure your saying thanks:) it was my pleasure realising I've outsmarted apples little security protection thing lol

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I recently brought an Apple product: IPad Dock Connector to VGA Adapter, and also a High-res S/VGA cable....Thinking i could connect my Ipad to my TV and play the movies I brought from ITunes, but no it says they are protected MEG-4, so they will not play on my TV, WHY??? Wouldn't that be one of the first reasons for buying such a cable, it seems unfathomable to me, I cannot understand, what a waste of money. I get all my movies from ITunes.

The following says:
Additional Information
iTunes Store movies (SD and HD) and TV shows (HD) require an HDCP digital connection. If you attempt to play this content using the iPad Dock Connector to VGA Adapter, an alert will appear to let you know that an HDCP-compatible device is required. To view iTunes Store content, do one of the following:
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Mr Ram,
There is a group of Quicktime specialists in Apple.com ⇒ Support ⇒ Discussions ⇒ Quicktime .
The more data you give us, the easier it is to help us help you to diagnose your problem. Your disk space would be very useful. Contrary to some, I advocate iDefrag to assist VLC and MPlayer, which you were a little hard on.
GNU/Linux's free offerings
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Streaming MPEG-4
+H.264/MPEG-4 AVC+ is a fancy codec based upon MPEG-4: it requires a powerful processor to de-compress it. I watched an MPEG-4 movie from a G3 iBook in 2005. It played flawlessly.
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Quicktime 7.X applications can not play +H.264/MPEG-4 AVC+ streams. It was a bug Apple never fixed. Frames are dropped because H.264 is so slow that it requires special hardware. You, I'm sad to say, don't have it.
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My Quicktime Pro on a PPC PowerBook is 7.6.4. You can either use a Linux transplant or upgrade to Quicktime X. Those more familiar with Macs may have better ideas for you.
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Now I've never had a problem like this before but for some reason last night after I purchased Resident Evil Degeneration from the i-tunes store off of my home computer it told me that I could not view it because my computer was not authorized.
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Neross,
You are not alone.
Back on June 9/09, my post titled "iTunes 8(x) + OS 10.5.7 NOT Compatible??" was about this very same problem.
Here's the link:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2031631&tstart=0
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So Neross, please take a moment to read my post and +please add your voice and situation to the building string of voices so that we can combine all our voices into one place and bump this situation up to the top of this iTunes discussion forum in order to bring attention to this problem+.
*+For 3 weeks+, +I have been without ANY ability to view and play ANY movies and tv shows -- and because of that -- I have not made any purchases or rentals+*.

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