Hi,

Is the video downloaded to the local machine or still in the Cloud?  When 
iTunes downloads the video to the local machine, it downloads both versions.

Later…

Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada

On Jan 27, 2014, at 6:47 PM, Christine Grassman <[email protected]> wrote:

> When I go into the video quality submenu, it is only offering two HD 
> versions: Default HD 1080 P  and High Definition 720 P
> Christine
> .
>  
> On Jan 27, 2014, at 5:59 PM, Tim Kilburn <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 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
>>>> 
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