Rented movie on my desktop and want to watch on my laptop
I just wanted to clarify a movie rental issue.
I keep my iTunes library on an external HDD so I can use it with either my MacBook Pro or G4 MDD as needed, wired or wirelessly. Last night I rented a movie that I downloaded through iTunes on my G4 MDD which was connected directly to the HDD. After it was done, I closed iTunes on my G4 then wirelessly connected to the HDD from my MacBook, started iTunes and tried to watch the rented movie only to find that I could not because the MacBook was not authorized.
I haven't found this specific issue covered, but from what I've been able to gather here and elsewhere online, there is probably no way around this.
Has anyone else had this issue and been able to figure out how to watch a rented movie on a laptop that you downloaded on a desktop or vice versa?
Thank you,
Todd
You can have the rented movie on only one device at a time.
Did you authorize you MacBook?
You also need to be connected to the Internet as I remember to watch a rented movie.
MJ
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