iTunes – Movie Rentals Early Tricks
by: George Starcher, Associate Editor
Well I was stumbling around like everyone trying to figure out why there was nothing showing rental. Finally figured out a trick that sort of works. Seems they are having to roll out the rental options per title and over time. So if you are a determined geek you can try the below. I have Next downloading for rental right now.
- Open up iTunes.
- Go to the iTunes Store
- Click Movies on the left under iTunes Store.
- Click Browse on the right under Quick Links. That takes you to the text listing of movies.
- Sort the Price column.
- Then browse the genres. The movies showing View Movie in the price column MIGHT have a rental button.
- Click the View Movie button for a movie that interests you and see if the Rental Button is there. If yes, give it a shot.
UPDATE – It took me 34 minutes to download Next on my Comcast connection. If you are interested in spending your hard earned dollars. Here is an iTunes link to Next and Rise of the Silver Surfer. Once you rent one you get a link in the Rented Movies section in your iTunes library that might enable you to find more. That is how I found Silver Surfer. Also of note. Only my iPod Touch gives the option of sync’ing rented movies at this time. Not my old 5th Gen iPod nor my AppleTV. You can’t even see the rented movie on the AppleTV when connected for streaming. Guess more firmware updates are coming down the pipe so they can support rented movies.
How big was the movie file? Where did it go on your hard drive? What format?
Comment by Jeff Krieger — January 15, 2008 @ 10:31 pm
Don't know if you've already been told Victor, but the UK price for the Apple TV is 199.00 gbp while the US version is 229.00 usd, I can only assume that this is because the income from the US rentals allows the price to be lowered so until we get rentals in the UK we will be paying a much higher price for the same product.
Don't have a problem with that, but I want HD downloads come on Apple don't take to long putting rentals on the UK site!
Comment by Gazmaz — January 16, 2008 @ 12:21 am
You will never be able to watch movie rentals on a 5 gen iPod. Only the current generation iPods, iPhone, and (when a software update comes out) Apple TV
Comment by Connor Patrick Jackson — January 16, 2008 @ 3:01 pm
I actually was in London the day the original AppleTV came out. I walked over to the Regent Street Apple store to see it. Then bought one soon as I got back to the US.
Comment by georgestarcher — January 17, 2008 @ 9:01 pm