ITunes download times RIDICULOUSLY long

It's 7pm in Paris and I thought I'd try out an iTunes movie rental for this evening after dinner. Fat chance. Clicked 'rent' and now iTunes is telling me it will take 5 HOURS to download the movie. Mind you, I just did a Speed Test and my current download capability is 14.07mbps.
Has anyone figured out any solution/explanation for this or is it just Apple's servers? A 5-hour download time is ABSURD for a 2-hour movie!

PS I'm not even downloading the HD version...

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What to do with old itunes downloads I no longer want?

I mean if they were old CD's I no loner wanted they could either be sold on or given away...
The issue is this; i have about 5 or 6 tunes i brought from iTunes that i no longer want! do i just delete them or is there a way i can exchange them for some new tunes? Their about 6 or 7 years old, a couple are the first wrong mixes i brought off iTunes! before i found the preview button. I would like to know what my option are here... There is no way i want them in my Library...
Thanks

Let's face it - buying music is cheaper now than it ever has been. Yes, really!
I'm old enough to remember how much I paid for my first ever:
Single - (a seven inch vinyl record).
LP - (Album, or twelve inch vinyl record)
CD
In 1967, (in the UK) the price I paid for my first three 7" singles would have got me 60 Mars Bars (a UK chocolate bar).
In 2014, (in the UK) the price I now pay for three MP3 tracks will get me just five Mars Bars
Just as well that I don't like chocolate anymore...
Oh! and that first LP cost the same as 120 Mars Bars (costs had gone up a little). Today, the price of a full digital album typically gets me just 20 Mars Bars!
TECsta wrote:
However lets not forget that there are still Markets, Communities and even Trade Fairs that revolve around secondhand music; so there not attached to LP's... The main point I leave with here is not having an aftermarket value just depreciates a downloads overrule value..
It's debatable whether a lack of second hand market (sorry, it's still "second hand" not aftermarket) for digital music reduces the value of the original. (Personally, I suspect it doesn't. People don't "treasure" their music as much as they used to, many regard their digital downloads as disposable.) But let's face it, the music industry (read, the record labels) have never been that smart about the technology their business relies upon, so why would they think to care about the second hand market? And as for the musicians who loudly protested (in the past) on behalf of the record companies, they couldn't have made a worse job of it if they had tried.
Actually, what's really funny is your attempt at deleting the digital music:
i did just delete them but since the introduction of icloud i keep finding them in my Library
The ultimate horror story...

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Could you download the graphics dynamically as they are required?
So, the air app would be the master 'app' and those additional
graphics are loaded from your server only when required? I'd bet this
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Dear King_Penguin,
I do hope you don't mind me troubling you a little further on this topic but in light of your kind reply I would like to know if there is a "Built-in" backup option in iTines, beyond the one I found on the Apple Support Forum (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751), which suggests one simply copie (drag & drop) the ...iTunes\music\ folder to a secondary hard disk OR offers the "Backup to Disk" option which requires countless CD/DVD's to backup a library of more than a few Gigabytes, which any library containing a few movies would easily exceed?
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youse sincerely,
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ITunes download times RIDICULOUSLY long

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