Hi Brian, Are they Rented Movies or Purchased Movies from iTunes Store?
Buying vs. Renting Movies: Buying: Obviously purchased content does not expire, and once downloaded will remain in your iTunes library indefinitely—even if that content has been removed from the iTunes Store itself. Music content can be purchased from an iPhone or iPod touch and will automatically transfer back to your main iTunes library the next time you sync, and with the Apple TV 2.0, content can also be purchased on the Apple TV and transferred back to your main iTunes library. Renting: Rentals on the other hand, are much more restricted, since they are transitory by their very nature. In much the same way as a DVD rented from Blockbuster must eventually be returned, so too must the digital rentals from the iTunes Store. Of course, since a digital download has no physical media that must be returned, the solution is to just automatically expire the digital download after the rental period has expired. You have 30 days from the time of rental to watch your movie, and 24 hours (in the US) or 48 hours (elsewhere) after you've started viewing to finish it. Once the rental period expires, the movie will disappear from your iTunes library. Once you start watching your movie, you can view the rented movie as many times as you wish within the 24-hour (or 48-hour) window. If you don't watch your rented movie, it will expire in 30 days and disappear from your iTunes library. You will need to rent it again in order to watch it. You can delete the movie prior to the expiration date if you want to make more space on your hard drive, iPod, iPhone, iPad, or Apple TV. However, the movie will automatically disappear from your iTunes library 24 (or 48) hours after you've begun viewing it. Post back if I have not understood or answered your query correctly. Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 18/08/2012, at 1:48 PM, Brian Risbey <[email protected]> wrote: > hi all > > I have asked before but is there a setting that stops an iPad2 from erasing > watched movies and tv shows. > My son watches a movie or tv show then it is gone until I re-synce it with > macmini - its 'home' computer? > During his hospital stays it would be good to be able to watch something a > few times. > > Thank You > Brian -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
