I am unable to play a movie I rented and transferred to my ipad

I rented a movie tonight and transferred to my ipad---it is showing on my ipad but I am unable to play the movie---what
is up?

I have found that renting a movie directly on an iPad works best if you plan to watch it there only. You don't seem to need an internet connection to start watching it. BUT if you but the movie on your Mac or Windows machine using iTunes then transfer it to your iPad, you MUST be connected to the internet to start watching.  It must need to do some sort of extra validation with the iTunes store.  I had a movie that I wanted to watch on a flight.  Tried to watch it on the way out but no go.  Just before heading out for the return flight, I pulled up the movie while on a WiFi connection, and it started to play just fine.  Continued to play after the flight took off.
TexanInParis

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