WATCHING RENTED MOVIES ON HOLIDAY.

I want to rent a movie in iTunes and watch it on a cruise ship in the area of Norway and the Arctic Circle.. I know iTunes can advise me, but has anyone any adverse experience of watching rented movies in areas other than where the movie was downloaded, which, in this case was the UK
The movie would be viewed on a imac2.
Thanks in anticipation..
Jim - West Riding.

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