ITunes movies are skipping

I try to play movies and tv shows on my computer and they skipp the entire time. What is up with that? I have all the updates on everything and I know that I have an old computer, but even when I don't run anything but it, it still has problems. Can anyone help me?

One thing I have noticed is that the Xena episode I downloaded is at a much higher total bitrate (1653kbps) than the episode of Reno 911 I downloaded over the summer, which is only (668kbps), to check i downloaded a free 2 minute video 'Scrubs' with a total bitrate of 1543kbps. iTunes has increased the size of there total bitrates on TV Shows and probably movies. If your computer doesn't have the juice to handle that bitrate the video will be jerky. Does anybody know how to lower the bitrate on downloaded videos from itunes, help the little guys out here. : )

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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1718
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Allen

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auxi.trejos wrote:
Where can I put my Itunes movies
clear cut case
You need to change the premise of your SSD use.
see here:
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Solid State Drive usage premise, or the “more space / upgrade SSD” question
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Nobody should consider any notebook a data storage device at any time under any circumstance, rather a data creation, sending, and manipulation device; and in the case of a SSD, this is more important for purposes of having sufficient working space on the SSD and reducing SSD ‘bloat’ in which cases someone is wrongly attempting to use the SSD space as a large media storage nexus.
The rare exception to the collective usage and premise of SSD use in which a much larger SSD is truly needed are for those in video and photography professions that require both the extremely fast speeds of the SSD and the onboard storage for large and or many video and photography files. However this also falls under the premise of a ‘working platform’ for such peoples rather than the intent of many who are using the SSD as passive and static data storage for media files very infrequently needed or accessed.
All on-notebook data collections should be logically approached as to necessity, and evaluated as to whether it is active or passive data that likely doesn’t need to be on the notebook, allocations of space-percentages to as-needed work and use, apportioning space for your entertainment media, and questioning whether it should it be on the notebook for more than short-term consumption.
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You both can and should purchase whichever SSD size you need or see fit, but even in the case of the largest of SSD, unless use-considerations are made, and SSD spaces are allocated as should be the case indicated above, one can easily and immediately run into this quandary of “needing more internal SSD space”, in which instance a different approach in usage must then be implemented.
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A Professional Example
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You should also never be put in the position of considering “deleting things” on your Macbook SSD in order to ‘make space’. This is especially what your external HD is for.
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External Hard Drives
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Parking it
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3. Such data needs to be parked into passive external HD archives.
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Please do not tell me that this is my internet connection problem because that is not the right answer. If this device can play movies instantly from other soources it should be able to do so through iTunes. I have had this product for a year now and have yet to watch a movie from iTunes.
My husband actually ordered this movie on Saturday to watch Sunday night and when we went to watch it it still needed to download. I would like to get a refund for this movie.

llicari wrote:
I have tried to order two movies through iTunes to watch on my ATV2 and each of them have indicated that they will be available for watching in over an hour. This is unacceptable! Why are the movies not buffered? Why can't part of the movie be loaded and started why mthe rest is loading.
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Please do not tell me that this is my internet connection problem because that is not the right answer. If this device can play movies instantly from other soources it should be able to do so through iTunes. I have had this product for a year now and have yet to watch a movie from iTunes.
It very likely is your internet connection, the reason you see different loading times from different sources is because the movies are of different qualities, HD iTunes movies are up to 10 times the size of netflix movies and consequently can take up to 10 times longer to download.
The first thing to check would be your internet download speed, you can do this at www.speedtest.net.
My husband actually ordered this movie on Saturday to watch Sunday night and when we went to watch it it still needed to download. I would like to get a refund for this movie.
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