ITunes movies DVD-able?

Does anybody know if I can burn a iTunes downloaded movie onto a DVD disk? And if so, what kind of disk does it take?

ArtemisJennings,
Welcome to Discussions.
Unfortunately, purchased movies cannot be burned on a DVD to use them in a DVD-player.
You can only burn them on Data CD/DVD for backup.
This is what the iTunes Store - Terms of Service say about that (chapter 9b):
"You shall be entitled to export, burn (if applicable) or copy Products solely for personal, noncommercial use. You shall not be entitled to burn Video Products."
M
17' iMac 800 MHz, 768 MB RAM, 200 GB HD, DL burner Mac OS X (10.4.8) iTunes 7.0.2

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ITunes Movie DVD's

I've downloaded movies from iTunes to watch over the holidays. I'm told when I burn them to DVD they cannot be played on an external DVD player. Is that true?

This is totally unacceptable. I can burn iTunes music to CD, I have a right to expect the same behavior from iTunes video.
iTunes TV content was just released in Canada last week. I immediately bought the full NHL classic games set, for which I had literally no other desire besides buring them to DVD. I have no interest in watching TV on my Mac or on my iPod, nor do I have any intention to buy an TV just to watch the occassional download. What I require, is to burn these files to DVD to watch at my convenience. I wasn't just disappointed to discover that I couldn't burn these files to DVD, I was furious.
Think about it. The content people are getting without paying for it actually suits their needs, while that which they are paying for does not. What is the incentive for a paying customer to use the iTunes store for videos? I know I sure as heck will not be buying another TV/Movie file from the iTunes store until I am able to burn them to DVD.

WHEN YOU PURCHASE RV SHOWS FROM ITUNES ARE YOU ABLE TO PUT IT ON A DVD AND WATCH ON A REAL TV?

When you purchase a TV show from itunes are you able to put it on a DVD to watch on a real TV?

Sorry, but no, you can't. The content owners won't allow Apple to allow that feature. You can back up your videos, but you cannot convert them to any other format. If you want play video/movie content purchased from the iTunes Store on your TV, you'll need to connect your computer to your TV or use an iOS device or iPod (one with video out) or an Apple TV.
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Importing movie dvds into my iphone through itunes

i have many movie dvds i would like to import into my iphone through itunes, can someone help me out with how to do this?

its not illegal to make a backup of your dvd
if that were the case than you would not be able to buy software which specifically does this.
there are dozens of app that help you create an iphone or idevice friendly version of your movie.
dvdxxx is a good one
xilxxx dvd to iphone is another good.
plus you can download app that decrypt the movie to your hdd than ya can use handbrake
making compatible formats for your own playback on your devices is 100% legal.
the problem is, apple, wants to you to buy that movie again via their itunes movie store.
its rubbish if you think about it,. they offer itunes match, which will make your music u bought at a store, match it, put it online and if it was ripped at low bitrate upgrade it
but they dont offer this for movies
so in reality its a hypocrisy. they offer for music but not for movies.
its not against the law to rip your music, which is same as ripping movie to hdd.
so if ripping music to hdd and then using itunes match to make it available online, would that not be illegal too? since you had to rip the music from a cdrom to put it on your hdd?

How can I move my iTunes movies from my computer to an external hard drive? After I copy them to the drive, do I just delete them from my computer? How will I be able to watch them again?

Hi,
I have a MacBook Air (July 2013) with the latest Mavericks OS X. I also have the lastest version of iTunes.
My computer has very little memory left, so I wanted to free some up. When I looked, movies were taking up a considerable amount of space. I want to move them from my computer, but still be able to watch them if I want to later. I haven't purchased an external drive yet, because I didn't know what size to get. I also have a lot of Photoshop files that are taking up a lot of memory, so I might put some of those on too. Would you recommend a 1 TB one or bigger?
Can you take me through the exact process of moving my iTunes movies to the external drive? I understand where to find the files (My Name<Music<iTunes Media<Movies), but am stuck from there. Do I simply drag them to the external drive and then delete them? Will this delete them from my iTunes library? How will I go about watching them again? I assumed that I would just plug the external hard drive in, click in the movie and watch. Is it this simple? I only want to move my movies, otherwise I would follow tutorials for backing up the library. Once you back up the movies, can you delete them from your computer?
Thanks,
Molly

iTunes does not have provision for automatically storing one kind of media on a separate drive, so you have some basic decisions to make first. Do you want these movies to still appear in your iTunes library, or are you content with browsing filenames on a drive in Finder when you want to look for one? The second's the easiest thing because then you don't have to have an external drive permanently turned on and attached to your computer (wired or wireless). To do that you literelly only need to drag your movies folder to an archive drive and delete movies from iTunes. To watch them again you can add it back to iTunes while holding down the option key so the movie is used from its location on the external drive.
There's ways to move the movies to an external drive while keeping them in iTunes but the external drive iwll always have to be turned on and connected to the computer or you will see a bunch of broken link exclamation marks.
Realize what you are talking about is not "backup". Backup (which you should do) is putting a second or more copy of items on external drives for the day when your internal drive fails and everything on it is lost, inclduing all your home photos and perhaps things that have been pulled from the iTunes Store and can no longer be re-downloaded.

HOW TO BURN ITUNE MOVIES TO DVD

i bought itune movies for my kids, i tried to burn them on dvd but they would not play in the car when we go for a road trip. Can anyone help me?

You cannot do this. You can make a backup copy to data dvd, but you CANNOT burn to a dsik that you can watch in a DVD player.
From the itunes store terms of service.
"You shall not be entitled to burn video iTunes Products"
http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/us/terms.html#GIFTS
Sorry

Is is possible to convert the movies purchased on itunes to DVD?

Is is possible to convert the movies purchased on itunes to DVD? (In other words you would be burning the movie or tv shows to a blank DVD).

You can store just what you want on the external. Just set up folders for what you want. I have a music folder, movies and TV shows, and pictures folders. I also have mine partitioned for OSX and Windows. I have a few files I need if I am running on windows so I keep them on the windows side. I always keep a back up of my documents and a few other files it is a pain to download on the external.
You can also copy every folder and file on your machine to the external if it is big enough. This is a true copy not a back up file generated by a back up program. I like to do this if I get adventuresome and plan to do some major experimenting with my software. Saves having to reload everything if it crashes.
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Burning Itunes movie to a black DVD

Anyone know how to do this? I can only figure out how to make a data DVD for back up.

You can only back up your iTunes moves to DVD. You can't use iTunes to make a DVD of the movies to play on regular players.

Salient diffs, DVD Movie vs. iTunes Movie

I've got a 40" HDTV with a couple of HDMI inputs and a 5.1 surround sound system with an optical input. Great for watching DVD movies. But I'm more than a little confused by the tech specs for iTunes movies and AppleTV. Can someone who knows tell me in plain language how the viewer experience will differ between say, watching a DVD from Netflix and buying a movie from iTunes and streaming it to my HDTV/5.1 sound system? I imagine I'm not the only one who will be interested in an informed answer. Thanks.
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OK, so I think we're both saying the same thing here, that the image height of the movie is less than 480 pixels, and thus less than DVD quality. And in the case of 2.35:1 movies, significantly less. I suppose that when you add compression artifacts on top of that, you're really taking about substantial degradation.
At the risk of splitting semantic hairs, I'm not sure I'd agree with substantial degradation.
Provided the compression tools are up to snuff, live-action 1.78:1 material works quite well in h.264 for iPod form when compared to MPEG-2 for DVD. Animation (be it CGI or 2D) is much tougher because compression algorithms have the most trouble with high-contrast edges (and that's all animation is, high-contrast edges). MPEG-2 for DVD has it easier with animation because DVDs can be interlaced, h.264, on the other hand, is progressive-only (and deinterlacing animation drops quality substantially)
Anyway, I believe Apple is being truthful when they advertise it as 'near-DVD quality.' (however dubious a notion that might be

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I agree with you in principal, but commercial DVD's are encrypted in a way to prevent this kind of duplication - and a judge has recently ruled that you can not legally remove this kind of copyright protection, even if you only are doing it for personal viewing. Apple, the owner of this board, has forbidden the discussion of how break this law.
Handbrake is a free program that allows conversion of movie types of all forms ... And I will say that they offer an explanation of how one might be able to deal with any other "complications" you are facing.

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I like to download iTunes movies to my MacMini from iTunes store. Recently I gave up doing so because I can't play iTunes movies in 5.1 surround on my surround system. My MacMini is connected to my Marantz 6007 SR via HDMI cable. However I can get DTS or 5.1 surround sound from my system with other players such as VLC player.
How can I fix this problem as I really want to buy or rent movies from iTunes store?

Hi komansava,
Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
It sounds like your Mac Mini is able to output 5.1 audio to your surround sound receiver, but iTunes purchases do not play in surround sound.
When playing iTunes purchases, first see if iTunes is set to output the movie you're playing in surround sound:
Set up iTunes to play content in surround sound
Movies you purchased or rented from the iTunes Store may have stereo audio and digital surround sound tracks. ...
In iTunes, click the Speech Bubble icon to view your audio choices, such as English (Surround). If the surround sound choice is dimmed or the icon doesn't appear, make sure you are using the appropriate hardware and that the content is encoded with digital surround sound.
You can find this information here:
Set up iTunes and your DVD Player for digital surround sound - Apple Support
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Backing up ( movie folder and itune movie category)

I don't want to offend anyone. Please let me know if this post should be on itune or broken up for itune, iphoto and imovie.
Trying to to complete this backing up process, but get it lean and clean before the final back up.
As I looked closer at my almost full HD using "whatsize it", I notice that these files: movie ( movie folder and itune movie category) and music( itune and music folder ) and photos ( iphotos and picture folder ). Apparently as I was downloading from camera, making movie, or what ever to get or create the files they were being place in various places. I see now I am not using the full potential of organization on my imac.
It seems that I tune and iphotos are storage like libraries, with itunes having the capabilities to play back the music and movies. Question-should I transfer all the items into the storage application of itune and iphotos? Then erase the files from the others location?
Also what is the suggested format of transport into Itune for music and movies?
I noticed in Itunes and iphoto various folders with years and dates. Do I need these folder after transfer into itune and iphoto? What I'm trying to say do these Apps need to assess the dated folder to show or play the movie, music or display photos?
In my movie folder, I see many folders that my son made with final cut.The folders have a star in the middle and above the star is some type of black broad ➤➤➤➤➤➤. Inside of the folder is a quicktime movie and another folder titled " media", which contains a AIFF sound file. Can I transfer this QT movie into Itune? Do I need the audio file that in the media folder? Will he be able to use this movie for another project or to continue completion?
In the imovie project folder, there is one movie, but it does show up as QT. Is this the format format for Imovie? Do I need to export to itunes or QT for later transport into itune?
Austin

I received this from thomas. I also gave my response. I have a start.
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If you're having trouble with organization of files, it's probably best to start using Time Machine and just let it back up everything on all your drives. The catch is that it needs a minimum of 2-3 times as much space as whatever it's backing up. If you currently have everything on the 250 GB internal drive, one of your 500 GB external drives would be an adequate backup, even if you move some files over to the other 500 GB drive. (You don't need 2-3 times more than the total drive capacity, just 2-3 times the size of the contents to be backed up.) But you said your 250 GB drive was almost full, so if your data grows much further, 500 GB won't be good enough, so you would need to buy a 1 TB drive at that point.
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Thanks, then I will back up with time machine and go today and get 2 Itb. I was given this suggestion for a new drive.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/1394/USB/EliteAL/eSATAFW800_FW400USB
I give these other drive to my sons.
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Can I watch an iTunes movie rental on a TV connected via mini displayport?

I'm not sure if there's been any headway with this, but I've got a mini displayport to HDMI adaptor on the way that I'm going to use to connect my MacBook Pro to my HDTV, effectively using the TV as an external monitor.
And of course, I want to watch some iTunes movie rentals on the TV instead of my laptop, but digging around the internet has shown that I might be facing an issue relating to the HDCP standard that would prevent me from being able to use my TV in this manner.
Is this still an issue? I have a fall 2009 MacBook Pro, which may be important, as I've read that Apple modified the mini displayport on the MacBooks in 2010.
Other than renting a movie as a sort of guinea pig with the possibility of being shot down and wasting my money, is there any way to know if this is going to work? Or is it simply a fact that any monitor/TV connected to my MacBook through the mini displayport is incompatible with HDCP, and I'm totally out of luck?
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If your HDTV is HDCP compliant, you probably will have no problems. But you might want to read this information which while written a while back still, to the best of my knowledge, applies:
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/16488
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http://www.apple.com/feedback

How can I move an itunes movie to my wife's ipad?

Hi -
I bought some videos from the iTunes store. Now I want to put them on my wife's ipad so we can watch them while traveling.
If I try to simply plug the ipad into my mbp the sync wants to erase her entire itunes content so it doesn't look like a direct transfer is possible.
What is the procedure for getting itunes movies from my MBP to my wife's iPad?
I thought I was able to use iTunes content on up to 5 devices.
Have I misunderstood how this works?
Thanks for some clarification.
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Ipad will sync to one computer at a time. Syncing to another will erase the current content.
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