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iTunes Rentals Don't Work
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Same here. I guess we'll have to wait for Apple to update the store. I do see the "Top Rentals" in Movies with 8 titles in the list, but no idea how they got there...
Steve Jobs rented Mean Girls like 8 times.
Steve Jobs rented Mean Girls like 8 times.
That's F-n hilarious!!! I finally see the rentals working now, and Mean Girls is no longer in the top rentals like yesterday. I had no idea Jobs was such a Lohan fan!
Video Ipods don't work with rentals
A nasty surprise. I have a 60 gig Video Ipod (about two years old). It plays purchased movies from Itunes perfectly, but I can't move a rental movie from Itunes over to Ipod. I get a message that says this version of Ipod doesn't work with rentals. So, the purchased movies work, the rentals don't...
This from a company that has posted record profits. Apple is going microsoft in a big way. Can you imagine...making obsolete thousands of good video Ipods (purchased for hundreds of dollars), by cleverly leaving their operating systems out of rental playing.
Oh, by the way, Apple is also LYING on its Itunes website, it says "Play Rental Movies Anytime, Anywhere"...uh...except on about a million Ipods!
Disgusting!
A nasty surprise. I have a 60 gig Video Ipod (about two years old). It plays purchased movies from Itunes perfectly, but I can't move a rental movie from Itunes over to Ipod. I get a message that says this version of Ipod doesn't work with rentals. So, the purchased movies work, the rentals don't...
This from a company that has posted record profits. Apple is going microsoft in a big way. Can you imagine...making obsolete thousands of good video Ipods (purchased for hundreds of dollars), by cleverly leaving their operating systems out of rental playing.
Oh, by the way, Apple is also LYING on its Itunes website, it says "Play Rental Movies Anytime, Anywhere"...uh...except on about a million Ipods!
Disgusting!
did you run the ipod updater-one is required for the ipod to play the rentals-A nasty surprise. I have a 60 gig Video Ipod (about two years old). It plays purchased movies from Itunes perfectly, but I can't move a rental movie from Itunes over to Ipod. I get a message that says this version of Ipod doesn't work with rentals. So, the purchased movies work, the rentals don't...
This from a company that has posted record profits. Apple is going microsoft in a big way. Can you imagine...making obsolete thousands of good video Ipods (purchased for hundreds of dollars), by cleverly leaving their operating systems out of rental playing.
Oh, by the way, Apple is also LYING on its Itunes website, it says "Play Rental Movies Anytime, Anywhere"...uh...except on about a million Ipods!
Disgusting!
Check the website
Check Apple's website...it says play the movies "Anywhere". And, why would movies you buy work and movies you rent not? It is planned and contrived to get more ipods sold, pure and simple.
Jobs said "current generation iPods" at least twice during the keynote.
Check Apple's website...it says play the movies "Anywhere". And, why would movies you buy work and movies you rent not? It is planned and contrived to get more ipods sold, pure and simple.
Yeah, that doesn't make sense. Why wouldn't the 5G iPod be able to play rented movies? I mean, it won't make me go out and by a Classic anyhow, but I just don't see why they are leaving those users left out.
Let Steve-O Know We Want A Firmware Update!
There is an online petition circulating to ask Apple to rectify this issue with a firmware update for older models at: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/ipodrent/petition.html. There's a lot of people pissed about this -- pass it on.
If technological barriers and (speculative) DRM issues are truly not impediments to older video iPods utilizing the iTunes movie rental service - and, indeed, inspection of the purchased and rental videos show that files & codecs are exactly the same -- then Apple has no reason to exclude their millions of current customers for using the service as it was intended.
There is an online petition circulating to ask Apple to rectify this issue with a firmware update for older models at: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/ipodrent/petition.html. There's a lot of people pissed about this -- pass it on.
If technological barriers and (speculative) DRM issues are truly not impediments to older video iPods utilizing the iTunes movie rental service - and, indeed, inspection of the purchased and rental videos show that files & codecs are exactly the same -- then Apple has no reason to exclude their millions of current customers for using the service as it was intended.
I'll try but
I'll try, but I have a hunch Apple has pulled another Microsoft....as if they don't make enough money...well, I am gone...there are plenty other video rental places on the internet!
There is an online petition circulating to ask Apple to rectify this issue with a firmware update for older models at: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/ipodrent/petition.html. There's a lot of people pissed about this -- pass it on.
If technological barriers and (speculative) DRM issues are truly not impediments to older video iPods utilizing the iTunes movie rental service - and, indeed, inspection of the purchased and rental videos show that files & codecs are exactly the same -- then Apple has no reason to exclude their millions of current customers for using the service as it was intended.
I'll try, but I have a hunch Apple has pulled another Microsoft....as if they don't make enough money...well, I am gone...there are plenty other video rental places on the internet!
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