Purchasing Standard Definition TV Shows

The ITunes store on my Touch suddenly (as of today) won't show most TV shows for purchase in Standard Definition. The HD is more expensive and useless on the touch. There is a statement on the bottom of the screen that says "Available in SD" but no way to access it. Any ideas?

I'm experiencing same problem.
Bought season pass for Walking Dead season 2. Initial half-dozen episodes were listed as either HD or SD (chose latter- I'm Windows 7).
Weeks passed. Now that Walking Dead season 2 has resumed, the latest episodes (which I paid for in advance) are available ONLY in HD, which won't play on Windows 7.

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HT5070 can I still purchase tv episodes in iTunes in standard definition?

They have always been cheaper and I prefer them, but I can't figure out how to access them. The screen keeps offering me only high definition versions. Thanks in advance for any help.

Welcome to the Apple community.
Yes, you should still be able to purchase standard definition movies, I can. Not all movies are available in all resolutions, have you tried checking a few movies.

Ordering standard definition movies with Apple TV 2.

I just upgraded to the second generation Apple TV. I prefer to purchase standard definition movies but do not see that as an option with this unit. Is there a setting change I can make to bring this option up? In the meantime I went back to my old AppleTV!

Go to General > iTunes Store and change the option for "video resolution " to "standard defiition."

How can I download standard definition versions of shows I already own?

iTunes had a seizure so I had to quit out before it finished downloading everything.. when I turned itunes back on, it was no longer downloading the standard definition versions of the tv show I had just bought the season of, only the HD versions.
How do I get the SD versions now?
Why can't I go straight to Apple for a solution to this..? It seems ridiculous to ask the apple community for advice on fixing an issue that Apple themselves should be the ones fixing.

It seems the policy of automatically downloading both HD & SD versions has changed. In future you'll get your preferred format, but the other should be available via iTunes in the Cloud.
Go to Store > Purchased > TV Shows. Untick Download HD when available, then download the SD episodes you require.
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After updating to 6.0, it takes hours to download a tv show. even in standard definition. any idea why?

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Standard Definition to High Definition and iTunes Upgrades

If you have already purchased something in standard definition, is it possible to upgrade standard definition to high definition tv programmes without paying the full price?
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Sorry but no, there is no upgrade from SD to HD movies or TV shows. Nor can you "upgrade" an album if it was re-released as a new version with new content. The content owners do not allow these services.
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Standard definition - videos

I would like to know if standard definition is 720p or lower. I just download an free movie from itunes using the digital copy code and would like to know SD if it is 720p.
I know HD is 720p or 1080p.
Thanks

When "Prefer Standard-definition Videos" is enabled, correct it only copies SD videos. However you don't need this enabled if you have purchased all SD videos from iTunes or recorded DVR to Mac/PC and used a convertor to transfer to iPhone.
Apple sells HD videos in a separate category for those not wanting to purchase 3GB HD movies or 1.5GB HDTV shows (variance in time length).

A How To: Create a Widescreen High Definition Slide Show from the Organizer

[EDIT] I just tried another one and, weirdly, that produced an output with black bars around all four sides! So maybe this 'how to' is not 100%. I have considered deleting the post altogether but, as it does still produce a superior slideshow quality file than the standard ones provided with Elements, I've decided to leave it with this edit added at the top for additional info.[END_EDIT]
In answering a question in another forum I found a nice quick way to create proper widescreen high definition slide shows from just the Elements Organizer. Apologies if this is 'old news' to readers, but I've not seen this described elsewhere so I thought I'd share it.
The Organizer Slide Show creator, if not wanting to edit in PRE, provides a small set of Windows Media Player profiles to create .wmv files. But the best of these goes only to 1024x768 (a 4:3 monitor resolution setting). I've noticed, but never paid much attention to, that at the bottom of the Slide Size box there is a 'Browse for more' option that lets you search for additional Windows Media Encoder profiles. Investigation showed me that I can download the Windows Media Encoder software from Microsoft and create my own profiles. But even further investigation showed me that someone had already done this! I've tested their full HD profile and it works just fine (1920x1080).
So if you are just after a straightforward slide show (i.e. not needing PRE features) but want it displayed on your Full HD TV set here is what you do:
Download the HD Profiles from http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/236895-hd-profiles-for-windows-movie-maker/. There's also a couple of useful SD sizes there as well. Save them somewhere you can easily find them.
Create your slide show in the Organizer. Obviously use appropriately sized images for HD. There's little point outputting an HD wmv file using low resolution and/or 4:3 aspect ratio images.
Save and Output your slide show.
In the output dialog ('Save As a File') scroll down to the bottom of Slide Size and select 'Browse for more ...'.
Browse to the file you downloaded in step 1 and click Open.
Click OK and your Widescreen HD .wmv file is prepared.
Here's a Gspot analysis of my test output file. As you can see it is an HD file with a 16:9, square pixel, aspect ratio.
Ta Da!
Cheers,
Neale
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If this post or another user's post resolves the original issue, please mark the posts as correct and/or helpful accordingly. This helps other users with similar trouble get answers to their questions quicker. Thanks.

nealeh
You did not mention a specific Premiere Elements Elements Organizer combo for this, so for now I will address this from the version 11, not Windows Movie Maker, perspective if I need to get version specific.
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The Browse for More is a well known route and does offer at least one Adobe profile for 1280 x 720 16:9. I am not sure where you came up with the lesser resolution,1024 x 768 that you mentioned. The Windows Media profiles have existed for several versions of Elements Organizer. Those Adobe ones that you do not see under Output Save As A File Movie (.wmv), can be found in the Windows 7 or 8 64 bit path
Local Disc C
Profile Files (x86)
Adobe
Elements 11 Organizer
Assets
Locale
en_US
tv_profiles
in the tv_profiles Folder are included the .prx files
.....10. 640 x 480 Enhanced Definitions
.....12. 852 x 480 Widescreen Enhanced Definition
.....14 1280 x 720 Widescreen High Definition
A homemade 1920 x 1080 16:9 30 frames per second .prx has long been sought but not that easily produced by many using with the Windows Media Encoder Editor. Apparently you have found one online, and it does get accepted into the Premiere Elements 11 Browse for More choices. And, if you do a gspot readout for the wmv output from Elements Organizer 11, it will display all the "right" properties that you hoped for and that are shown in your screenshot.
The bottom line, why bother with the wmv slideshow? If you take your original photos and size them for 1920 x 1080 16:9, use them in the Elements Organizer 11 Slideshow Editor (Crops used in preferences), use the Edit with Premiere Elements Editor command, what you get in Premiere Elements 11 is full and good in all regard. Have you tried it?
I can see your interest if this is HD going to HD (AVCHD on DVD or Blu-ray disc format on Blu-ray disc, but I do not see this for an Elements Organizer Slideshow that is going to DVD-VIDEO widescreen.
More later.
ATR

Why isn't my high definition video converting to standard definition?

What I'm describing here, I've successfully accomplished many, many times using Premiere Pro CS5 and now Premiere Pro CS6. Now, for the first time ever, it's not working and I'm completely baffled. (This is a high-end Windows 7 64-Bit machine with 16GB RAM running Premiere Pro CS6.)
Here's a basic summary of my workflow. Nothing out of the ordinary here.
1. I shoot my video using a high definition camcorder (the same one I've been working with for the past year or two.
2. I import my high definition video into a 1920x1080 sequence in Premiere Pro CS6.
3. I edit my sequence until I'm happy.
4. I enter and name my Encore chapter markers in the sequence.
5. I create my Encore project and import the sequence as a timeline and set up my menus and such.
6. I build my Encore project, first into a standard definition DVD image file (so I can later burn SD-DVDs) and then build it again into a high definition Blu-ray image file (so I can later burn Blu-rays).
The Blu-ray burn is turning out just fine.
But the video in the DVD burn is all black. I can jump around from chapter to chapter and I can hear the sound, but the video doesn't show up!
I tried this a couple times thinking that maybe Encore just messed up the SD-DVD creation process but I got the same result each time. When I preview the project in Encore, it all looks just right.
So I figured, okay, something's not working when I import the sequence.
I went back to Premiere Pro thinking I'd just export my 1920x1080 sequence into a widescreen standard definition AVI and create a new sequence just for the standard definition DVD.
The exported AVI is black as well!!
I don't get it. Why on earth won't my high definition video convert properly to standard definition?
The high definition sequence looks completely normal in Premiere Pro. What could I possibly be overlooking??
One final note. Just as another test, I copied and pasted the sequence in Premier Pro, truncated it to a couple minutes (the full sequence is 90 minutes long), and exported to a widescreen AVI again.
It just finished, I tried playing it back in Windows, and it, too, is all black, sound but no video.
Like I said, this is nothing new for me. I've done it countless times with other projects. I could really use some assistance with this one.

So I exported my completed high definition sequence to an MP4 and re-imported back into Premiere Pro. Right-clicked it and created a sequence from the clip. Then I imported my chapters from the old sequence into the new one.
I returned to Encore, modified my project to work off the newly created sequence (what a pain having to recreate all the scene links) and voila, it had no trouble making a DVD this time.
So I guess I'll get out of the bad habit of my old routine and create a sequence the "right" way from now on. Funny how we get used to doing something one way and stop thinking outside the box after a while.
Jim, I don't see how that's necessary. As long as I create an Encore project based on a good high definition sequence, I have never had to do anything other than have Encore build a standard definition DVD based on the high definition sequences. It has always done the conversion for me and produced really good DVDs. Once I create a DVD image that I'm satisfied with, I simply have Encore build a Blu-ray image using the exact same project, and that works perfectly as well. I suppose I may be missing something here but it all works and works well, so I don't see a reason to create two projects when one works well.
On a separate note, is it just me or doesn't everybody think it's high time that Adobe offer a feature to import markers from one sequence into another. I can do it automatically but I have to use a macro that I created separate and apart from Premiere Pro. For that matter, I think Encore should also offer a feature to remap all scene links to a new sequence instead of forcing me to fix them one by one myself.
Anyway, thanks to all of you for pointing me in the right direction!

How do I assign a user ID to the purchasing group so it shows up on table..

How do I assign a user ID to the purchasing group so it shows up on table T024? I'm trying to create a STO but am recieving the following error
Configuration of User ID is not set up in purchasing group T024 table
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Diagnosis
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When editing a program for cable TV playback that will be shown in standard definition 4 x 3 aspect ratio, MPEG2, 720 x 480, what settings should be used for the timeline? It seems to me that it should be some sort of standard definition timeline 720 x 480 non-square pixel. I would like to see in my client monitor what the home viewer will see. Is there any reason to use a high definition timeline, then convert it? There will be no reuse of the program on the web or in future reruns. No fancy animations or pans and zooms. Source material will be mixed. It seems to me that graphics made on a high definition timeline will also look bad when converted for standard definition playback.
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Never received an answer, and stopped downloading through iTunes (easier to wait for the DVD to come out, or stream through Netflix!)

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