Why does it take over two hours to download a movie on Apply tv

Why does it take over two hours to download a  movie on Apple TV
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The first thing to check would be your internet download speed, you can do this at www.speedtest.net.
1080p HD movies require a recommended speed of 8 Mbps, 720p HD movies require a recommended speed of 6 Mbps, while SD movies require a recommended speed of 2.5 Mbps.
Netflix uses adaptive streaming and can reduce quality right down to produce a stream as low as 0.5 Mbps.

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  • Why does it take over 2 hours to download a rented movie on apple tv? When I download a movie on Netflix it downloads immediately.

    Why does it take over 2 hours to download a rented movie on Apple TV?  When I download a movie from Netfix it is immediate.

    Welcome to the Apple Community.
    The first thing to check would be your internet download speed, you can do this at www.speedtest.net.
    1080p HD movies require a recommended speed of 8 Mbps, 720p HD movies require a recommended speed of 6 Mbps, while SD movies require a recommended speed of 2.5 Mbps.
    Netflix uses adaptive streaming and can reduce quality right down to produce a stream as low as 0.5 Mbps.

  • HT1577 It takes over an hour to download a movie to apple tv!

    According to the estimated download chart, a movie should take 18-24 mins over a 5Mbps internet connection. I've been waiting for over an hour and my apple tv is saying another hour +!
    I have changed my settings to only allow standard def videos and yes I've updated the software on the ATV. This is totally REDICULOUS! Apple, clearly there are ways to make this content transfer quicker. What gives?

    Download finally done. Choppy... as in unwatchable and the sound doesn't match the video. How do I get the money on my acount back? First go at itunes and well, once is more than enough. *****, ***** *****!!!!

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    Why does Adobe take over Part 2:  I attempted to use  http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/application-file-icons-change-acrobat.html  and on download got a box that said, Quitting     Raise without Handler!    
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  • It takes over an hour for the rental movies from itunes to download. is this normal?

    it takes over an hour to download. is this normal?

    Welcome to the Apple Community.
    That all depends on your internet service. 6 Mbps or better is recommended for HD rental content. 2.5 Mbps for SD. You can check your actual internet speed at speedtest.net.
    If you'd rather download SD content to avoid waits, you can change the type of content available by default in settings.

  • Why is it taking over 20 hours to download IOS 8

    I have been trying to download IOS8 on my 4S for a few days.
    My IMac is connected to an ethernet connection with FIOS
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    a while it quits and states it timed out.

    Hi Stevo, in compressor.app , go and SET "FRAME CONTROLS" to OFF in the Compressor Inspector for that job (see the gear wheel) Resubmit and see if there is a major reduction in the service time for THAT job.
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  • Why should it take over an hour to export a video that is less than 2 minutes long?

    The short clip I have is only 1;51 long, but Media Encoder has been slaving away at it for over 20 minutes and still says over an hour remaining. The only thing I am doing differently with this clip is I have sped up the action x10 to give it a "Keystone Kops" effect. (The duration of the raw video totals about 17 minutes.)  I've also added about three titles and an MP3 sound file. Tried to export first to F4V, then gave up and am now trying export to plain AVI, but it is taking forever!
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    OK, well... where to start...
    First, as to Windows 7, I appreciate your admonishment, but I have had no problems yet that I attribute to the OS. The main reason I switched to W7 is not for bonus points, but because Explorer will natively show thumbnails of the AVCHD files from my cameras. Vista would not do that. I am sure you'd agree that this is an important and very helpful feature. No other add-in program for Vista have I found would do that for me. It may be out there, but we haven't crossed paths yet.
    Secondly, I have had no other problem encoding video before this particular one. Most of the videos I produce are for our company website (http://www.topographic.com) to be viewed as a FLV or F4V file, and there have been no problems with that. I did create a video that was over 1-1/2 hours long that was written to DVD, but that took, without surprise, over 4 hours to complete, including the transcoding and DVD writing in Encore. (This one that was giving me problems is only 1-1/2 minutes in length, and is not being written to a DVD.)
    This particular video I tried first in F4V, but when it seemed to be drawing out so long, I canceled and restarted it as an AVI. And that one went on for well over an hour before it finished. The main thing that is different from this video, as I explained in my original post, is that the raw video was 17 minutes long, sped up by PPro x10 for fast action (you can see it here: http://www.topographic.com/video/booth_setup.html - I am the guy in the dark blue shirt).
    As a comparison, I exported another video that is not yet completed, just as a test. That video is 44 seconds long and it took only 5 minutes to encode. All things being equal, this video would have taken at least 30 minutes to encode if conditions were the same as the video I was having trouble with.  I have to believe that the problem would be the compressed timeline for speeding up the action.
    As further comparison, I created a test video with the raw clips for the troublesome video and exported it to an AVI file. It was a 17-minute video which took 31 minutes to encode. This seems to be consistent with my previous test.
    In all other aspects I have had no serious problems with my videos and PPro CS4. A few little niggling problems here and there, but mostly due to my inexperience with the system (as my previous postings seem to adequately bear out).
    As for my being an engineer: make that former engineer. I am now an IT and communications guy. But you can see what kind of stuff I designed by looking here: http://www.geocities.com/wanorman2000/gallery.htm.
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  • Why does Adobe take over?

    When I download Adobe Reader it takes over my computer, turning every icon into an Adobe one and killing it.  I have tried the download in Chrome, Mozilla and now IE, uninstalling after every attempt. 

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    This is very unusual. A normally operating Macbook Pro should have you signed in and running in well under 60 seconds from cold boot.
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  • Why does it take over 2 minutes to get a database connection from the DataSource?

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  • HT201587 Rent and play now takes over eight hours to download??

    paid to rent and watch now, THEN told it would be eight hours nine minutes before it could be watched??? That time is now increasing? 9 hrs 45.... 10 hrs.... Why did I pay? Could have had it from Sky straight away, albeit for £1 more.
    I Downloaded the imitation game a week ago, and all I get when I try to play back is "an error occurred please try later"?
    First apple product I EVER bought that I wished I hadn't.....

    For some legal reason rented movies have to be completely downloaded before they can be watched, unlike purchased content which you can start watching right away.   That being said though I can download a whole movie in 15 min or so.  It sounds like your internet connection may not be even close sufficient for streaming HD content.  If that is the case and product is still new I would take it back as it is useless without a very fast broadband internet connection.   Are you able to use other streaming services like Netflix or Hulu? 
    You might contact your ISP so some of them limit traffic from streaming providers like iTunes and Netflix.
    Since you were never able to access the content you can contact Apple customer service for a refund.   They are usually pretty flexible on this.

  • Got a season pass for Downton Abbey season 2, watched 2 episodes. Now it takes over 3 hours to download the next episode.

    Changed resolution. Same problem. What's wrong? Bandwidth is good on network. Did hard boot on AppleTV. Netflix movies start fine. 2 older Downton episodes start also. Same problem with epi. 4. Don't want to buy the episodes on my mac. How do you download these BTW, without paying again. Your help is appreciated.

    This can be fixed. I fixed mine that was having this problem as well. I found this link online and it worked well for me. Takes some time to do but is worth it. Hope it helps for you too.
    http://blog.jhong.org/2008/08/does-your-iphone-take-forever-to.html

  • Why does Bookmarks take several seconds to respond after I move a bookmark when Sync enabled, but not when Sync is disabled?

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  • Why does it take apple tv 5 hours to download a movie from itunes?

    Why does it take itunes 5 hours to download to apple tv?  What have I done wrong?

    it may have to do with the download speed you get out of your internet connection. go to Speedtest.net and find out.

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