When I rent a movie on apple tv it says 20 hours to download and I cannot wait to get it downloaded so what do I need to do to speed it up Thanks HSwanson
I am trying to rent a new movie on my apple tv and it says it will take 20 plus hours to download and this is not acceptible to be able to get the movie seen when I want to. What can I do to speed up the downloads. I have 2 rented and not able to see them. The regular netflix movies work fine. Thanks HSwanson
What is your internet speed? www.speedtest.net
6mbps is required for instant HD rentals, you can turn off HD in the settings for a slow connection
Wifi or ethernet?
Using ISP's DNS?
Netflix uses a vairable bit-rate so it will stream instantly and degrade depending on your connection. iTunes is fixed and will only start once enough has loaded in order to play without interuption
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When I rent a movie using Apple TV,it takes several hours to load. At this point, I opt to watch later. When I try to watch the movie, it starts loading again and tells me that it will be ready to watch in one hour forty four minutes. This can't be normal. Is there something I am doing wrong? Any suggestions.
If it's taking several hours then that is likely due to your internet connection. You can verify at speedtest.net
6mbps required for instant 720P
8mbps for 1080P
You can switch to SD in the settings (which only requires 3mbps)
You can also check istumbler or netstumbler for interference
Make sure you are on your ISPs DNS
The reloading is normal. There is no accessible storage on ATV. The small flash is used for caching streamed content, if you access other things or turn the device off it will be flushed. -
when you rent a movie through apple tv should i be able to get it on my mac and iPad2 through itunes
Welcome to the Apple Community.
No, if you rent a movie on anything other than your computer it can only be watched on that device. If you want to watch it on multiple devices, rent it on the computer then it can be transferred between devices, but can't be moved to more than one device at a time. -
When I rent a movie on Apple TV it tells me I have 4 hrs until I can play it...How can I stream the movie so I can watch it right away?
AppleTV has fixed size rental files. These will have a given bitrate of so many Mbps.
For HD the minimum recommended internet speed for near instant rentals is 6 Mbps.
If you have less than that then clearly a movie cannot play in real time - say you get 3 Mbps connection but film is 6 Mbps you only get half the data in 'real time' so can't play. They get around this by calculating how much of a rental needs to download to memory to the allow the remainder of the data to follow on. So for your rental after 4 hours enough of the stream will have 'downloaded' to allow you to start watching with the remaining data following on as you watch in real time.
I suspect you are getting under 2-3 Mbps or therabouts.
Your options are to get a faster connection or change settings to rent SD not HD - SD generally starts much quicker.
An annoying thing with AppleTV2 is that if you do something else while 'prebuffering' a chunk of the film, this chunk can be flushed from memory to do the other task eg stream local movie or view movie trailers.
I'm sure you've looked at streaming video on webpages in the past where it stops and starts all the time when your connection is slow. This is what would happen to your rental if AppleTV tried to play it on a slow connection - it would kep stopping and starting.
Netflix on the other hand apparently adjusts quality (and hence bitrate) downwards with slower connections so they seem to work quicker. -
Why is it when I rent a movie from Apple it takes all night to load & when I try to play it starts to load again for a while before it plays ? Netflix loads & plays in seconds [ usually] in the same device!
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One of the main reasons this occurs is because Netflix uses a feature called adaptive quality and iTunes uses a fixed quality. Netflix is able to reduce its quality to such an extent when it detects that you have a poor Internet connection that the data rate of the movie is as low as 0.5 Mb per second, on the other hand if you have chosen to view an HD movie from iTunes U have chosen a movie with a data rate as high as 5 Mb per second. -
When I stream a movie via Apple TV from my iPad Air into my Samsung TV, I'm getting the "soap opera" effect. This only happens when I use Apple TV, not when I view a movie directly through a cable channel. Is there a way to eliminate this effect?
I'm having the same problem. It's not an issue with my TV, i've turned this feature off. I've tried playing with the ATV display settings but nothing works. When I stream netflix from my Samsung bluray player, I don't get the soap opera effect, but when I stream any video from the ATV, the soap opera effect is there. I'm thinking it's a choice that Apple made, but I really wish it could be turned off. Not a lot of people are searching for this, because it can be easy to overlook, but it's driving me nuts!
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I rented a movie on Apple TV. I had money in my iTunes account, but was required to use my credit card. Why did it not just use the money in my iTunes account to pay for the movie?
Rented movies downloaded to an Apple TV can't be transferred to any other device.
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My MacBook Pro getting slower and slower, what do I need to do to speed it? Thanks.
Help to speed up my MacBook Pro.
By slower you mean starting up slower or during regular operation slower?
Login Items;
Over time, as you install more programs, they may be running at startup (login). Check what items are set to start during login.
Choose Apple menu > System Preferences and click Users & Groups.
Click your account’s name, and then click Login Items. Select the ones you dont want and hit the minus bar to delete from launching during log in.
For normal running processes;
Use Activity Monitor to see what processes and apps are using a lot of resources and then troubleshoot from there as to why certain programs are taking up more resources than normal.
Guide to using Activity Monitor;
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/activitymonitor.html
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http://triviaware.com/macprocess/ -
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Rented movies downloaded to an Apple TV can't be transferred to any other device.
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I've rented & downloaded a movie on my computer in itunes, but it does not show up on my Apple TV. Everything else shows up on Apple TV, including my computer's movie library. When I click on the movie in Apple TV it says I've already rented it and asks if I want to rent it again. No, I just want to watch it.
Unfortunately I have to if I download it on my computer. I have rented itunes movies before directly using the Apple TV and it worked just fine and I could stay in the living room. Without clicking that icon on my computer, there was no way to watch it.
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I rented a movie for Apple TV via my Mac months ago. SInce than when I go to open itunes...it quits before anything loads. HOw do I fix this? I haven't been able to use itunes on my computer since than!
Rented movies downloaded to an Apple TV can't be transferred to any other device.
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As a new user of Apple TV, I need some assistance.When I rent a movie on iTunes and download for viewing later, say a day or two later, It seems to load itself all over again with a msg saying ready to view in 25 mins ! So having waited the 25 mins movie starts and runs for maybe 1 hour and the pauses for maybe 5 mins while it seems to load again . any help appreciated
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If you use the Apple TV for something else or turn it off it will erase whatever is on it's drive. If you are going to download content for later viewing you might consider doing it on the computer, downloads don't disappear until they expire and you can watch them as many times as you want. -
I bought an Apple TV and when I rent a movie, I get a display saying that no HDCP is available. How can I solve this problem?
Have you verified that your TV is HDCP compliant? Consult manual and/or post model so someone can check.
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When trying to rent a movie from Apple TV, I'm asked to verify my payment method. I don't have a credit card but I do have over $100 dollars in iTunes store credit. How do I get passed this in order to be able to rent movies again?
so i dont understand why i wouldnt be able to purchase the $14.99 movie (unless there's tax or something, but i dont think so?)
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When I rent a movie from itunes library on my desktop it is not showing up under rented on my Apple tv? This has not happened before?. Can I rent or buy directly from Apple TV? I hope someone can answer this silly question.
CarolWelcome to the Apple Community.
You can purchase or rent it direct from the Apple TV or from the computer. If you rent/purchase from the computer, it must fully download to the computer before it will show up under computers > rentals on the TV.
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