I have ordered a movie from Apple TV and found it would take 10 hours and 27 minutes to down load. How do I stop it, and reverse my order????

I have ordered a movie from Apple TV and found it would take 10 hours and 27 minutes to down load. How do I stop it, and reverse my order????

The problem is generally due to a slow internet connection.
AppleTV files are fixed size.
For SD you need 2.5Mbps, 720p HD 6 Mbps and 1080p 8 Mbps sustained speeds to view immediately.
If your internet delivers these speeds you should be able to play within seconds.
If slower AppleTV works out how long it will take do download the rental of say 3.5GB for a 720p movie, then subtracts the running time of the movie and whatever that figure is is how long it'll take to start.
So if a movie is 2 hours long and you have a fast connection and it calculates the movie could download in under 2 hours it'll play withing seconds.
If it thinks it'll take 4 hours to download, it'll subtract the running time of 2 hours and allow you to play in 2 hours time.
While this may not seem ideal the reason is that if it didn't precahce on a slow connection you would not be able to play a movie through without stopping and starting to cache the next section.
Unfortunately this is compounded by using the AppleTV for other things as this can reset the clock by flushing any of the rental cached.
AC

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