Itunes rentals

2 Questions for you all...
1 - When renting a movie directly from the ATV Gen 2 does the device store it on some internal memory (if it has any) or does it stream it?
2 - As I though its streamed the rented video and due to my very slow connection speed I decided to rent through itunes on the Mac and then play back through the ATV. The rental I chose did say available in HD for the Apple TV and iPad. but there was no selection button for the HD version. If I look at the rental through the ATV is does say its in HD. How can I down load the ATV HD version through my Mac to watch on the ATV?
I think thats clear - ish.

gareth27311 wrote:
1 - When renting a movie directly from the ATV Gen 2 does the device store it on some internal memory (if it has any) or does it stream it?
it uses the progressive download model. which means that it plays as it streams.
the 8gb internal storage is used to cache it as it downloads, but it doesn't permanently store it.
2 - As I though its streamed the rented video and due to my very slow connection speed I decided to rent through itunes on the Mac and then play back through the ATV. The rental I chose did say available in HD for the Apple TV and iPad. but there was no selection button for the HD version. If I look at the rental through the ATV is does say its in HD. How can I down load the ATV HD version through my Mac to watch on the ATV?
essentially you can't.
some HD content is exclusive to the appletv, so you can only get it in HD on the appletv.

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