Hi, I’ve seen this with HD movies purchased from iTunes. There are threads on the Internet talking about it that I browsed sometime during last Fall. Supposedly, if you view the SD version instead of the HD version,, iTunes will allow many of the projectors to show the content. All Movie/TV purchases downloaded from iTunes also include the SD (Standard Definition) version along with the HD version. To access the SD version, navigate to the Movie or TV show, press VO-shift-m to bring up the Contextual menu and go to the Video Quality item. Select SD from there and see if it works. Not promising anything, just recall reading this somewhere.
Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jan 27, 2014, at 2:40 PM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote: > Sounds a bit odd. What was the connection from your MacBook to the projector? > I know there is a bag of hurt around HDMI and HD video DRM but if you were > using the analog VGA connection that shouldn't have had anything to do with > it. > > CB > > On 1/27/14 2:28 PM, Christine Grassman wrote: >> Hello all. In the past, I have been able to connect my MacBook to a >> projector and play any movies in my iTunes library. However, (and it has >> been months since I did this), today it did not work. The movie would play >> on the computer itself, but as soon as the projector was connected, it would >> stop. (The projector is not broken; it plays when connected to other >> devices.) >> >> I had two tech-savvy individuals try to get it to play, using mirroring, >> VLC, and connecting to an Apple TV in our building's media lab. However, I >> am told that: >> 1. Because of the Motion PIcture Association of America, Apple has placed >> new restrictions on movies downloaded from the iTunes store, and it is no >> longer possible to connect them to a projector and play them easily. (This >> makes no sense, since from what I understand from others, movies bought >> through Google, Amazon, Hulu, etc., play just fine when connected to a >> projector.) >> 2. The Apple TV must be one that I myself can log onto; essentially, I >> cannot use any but my own Apple TV to play my movies. >> 3. My only other option is to get an Apple projector. >> Is this all accurate? Is there a workaround? >> Christine >> > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
