Why are video downloads from Itunes so slow?

I just purchased Season 2 of Downton Abbey.  Have been waiting over an hour, and still do not have even the first episode.  Terribly frustrating.  What is the problem?

The import setting is for CDs you already have or if you had WMA files and were converting them into iTunes. Downloads off the net are almost always in MP3 format and songs bought off iTunes are in the AAC format (A compressed format just like MP3). I wouldn't worry about it much. If there songs you bought on iTUnes, AAC is a very good sound format and (Far as I know) are just like CD quality
I have bought one or 2 albums in a store on CD and off iTunes in ther AAC format and I can not tell a diff in neither

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