My rental won't play on the computer that I just purchased it with

First off, I bought the rental. I usually start watching them while it downloads, which has always been fine. Tonight I was about to do the same when it kept on telling me that it's authorised on another computer, but I clearly purchased it on this. Then I decided a good old restart might do something, and when I turned it back on it downloads, but when I try and play it doesn't. Any ideas on where I'm going wrong?

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DVD issues have plagued the Mac OS since 10.0. I have the same problem. DVD's I created on my machine are the same regardless of how they are created (data DVD or "Movie"). When it doesn't immediately eject them back out it will ask me what I want to do with the blank DVD I have inserted yet another machine plays them just fine. A DVD contains two "tracks" one is about 1 GB± and is unaccessible to users with consumer products (including most "pro" apps) and contains the information for the various types of DVD Players to know what to do with the data including the manufacturers info i.e. type of DVD (RAM, ROM, -R -RW etc) as well as read/write speeds. One very important piece of information is the time-code. DVD uses SMPTE time-codes and Mac OS X as you've experienced can write them but cannot seem to read them properly, that's why they work on the other machines and not the one that created them. Even if the Mac isn't writing them 100% the DVD playback SW in most set top boxes can compensate for this error as they are expecting data from all types of SW and burners. I am assuming the "other" macs are most likely G4's as this is my experience.
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