DaveWT
Well-Known Member
My system:
Mid 2011 iMac with Sierra (10.12.1)
4th generation Apple TV with tvOS 10.0 (now tried with 10.0.1)
I do not rent a lot of movies but have rented a few in previous versions of the operating system - probably Yosemite and maybe in El Capitan. This was probably my first movie rental with Sierra.
The way I remember doing it in the past, was to rent a movie via iTunes on my iMac. Shortly after I completed the rental steps a dialog box would pop down saying the movie was ready to play and prompting me to “play now” or “play later”. I would choose the latter and then at some later time we would sit down to our TV and play the movie through our Apple TV via Home Sharing from the iMac.
The only hiccup I recall is that after an OS update (e.g.. Yosemite to El Capitan) the Apple TV would not display anything on my iMac and I had to go into iTunes on my iMac, stop Home Sharing and then restart it again.
For a movie I rented on Oct. 25 in iTunes on my iMac, after I had completed the steps to rent it, I did not see the usual dialog box saying it was “ready to play”. But I assumed it was already on my iMac.
Later, that day, I attempted to watch the movie through my Apple TV. This time, I stopped and restarted Home Sharing in iTunes on my iMac but my computer still did not show up on the Apple TV. Then I stopped and restarted Home Sharing on the Apple TV itself, something I have never had to do before. At this point my iMac showed up but there were no rental movies showing.
I assumed that the earlier rental hadn’t worked so I returned to my iMac and tried to rent the movie again. This time it told me that I had already rented it, and I was to go to Account > Check For Available Downloads but when I went there it showed nothing.
So then I went back to the Apple TV and rented the movie there (which I probably should have done from the beginning) and we watched it the same evening there. (And I was billed twice, for the iMac version and again for the Apple TV version, but that is not my concern here.)
I have since looked at my iMac’s iTunes under Movies > Rented and see this movie showing there and saying it “Expires in 29 days” so am not sure why it wouldn’t have shown up via my Apple TV on Oct. 25
I was thinking that I may have signed out of the iTunes store on my iMac before the evening attempt to watch it via the Apple TV and that may have been the reason it did not show up there at that time. However, I tried it again this morning while I was definitely signed into iTunes on the iMac and the movie still could not be found via the Apple TV.
The other curiosity is why when I rented it on the iMac it didn’t give me an indication that it was “ready to play” as I believe such movie rentals used to do.
I just want to make sure I know how to properly do this on a future occasion when I might want to rent another movie. In some cases I will want to watch the movie on my iMac and sometimes via the Apple TV and that is why in the past I have done the rental on the iMac.
Any thoughts, missed steps or do I just remember past successes incorrectly?
Mid 2011 iMac with Sierra (10.12.1)
4th generation Apple TV with tvOS 10.0 (now tried with 10.0.1)
I do not rent a lot of movies but have rented a few in previous versions of the operating system - probably Yosemite and maybe in El Capitan. This was probably my first movie rental with Sierra.
The way I remember doing it in the past, was to rent a movie via iTunes on my iMac. Shortly after I completed the rental steps a dialog box would pop down saying the movie was ready to play and prompting me to “play now” or “play later”. I would choose the latter and then at some later time we would sit down to our TV and play the movie through our Apple TV via Home Sharing from the iMac.
The only hiccup I recall is that after an OS update (e.g.. Yosemite to El Capitan) the Apple TV would not display anything on my iMac and I had to go into iTunes on my iMac, stop Home Sharing and then restart it again.
For a movie I rented on Oct. 25 in iTunes on my iMac, after I had completed the steps to rent it, I did not see the usual dialog box saying it was “ready to play”. But I assumed it was already on my iMac.
Later, that day, I attempted to watch the movie through my Apple TV. This time, I stopped and restarted Home Sharing in iTunes on my iMac but my computer still did not show up on the Apple TV. Then I stopped and restarted Home Sharing on the Apple TV itself, something I have never had to do before. At this point my iMac showed up but there were no rental movies showing.
I assumed that the earlier rental hadn’t worked so I returned to my iMac and tried to rent the movie again. This time it told me that I had already rented it, and I was to go to Account > Check For Available Downloads but when I went there it showed nothing.
So then I went back to the Apple TV and rented the movie there (which I probably should have done from the beginning) and we watched it the same evening there. (And I was billed twice, for the iMac version and again for the Apple TV version, but that is not my concern here.)
I have since looked at my iMac’s iTunes under Movies > Rented and see this movie showing there and saying it “Expires in 29 days” so am not sure why it wouldn’t have shown up via my Apple TV on Oct. 25
I was thinking that I may have signed out of the iTunes store on my iMac before the evening attempt to watch it via the Apple TV and that may have been the reason it did not show up there at that time. However, I tried it again this morning while I was definitely signed into iTunes on the iMac and the movie still could not be found via the Apple TV.
The other curiosity is why when I rented it on the iMac it didn’t give me an indication that it was “ready to play” as I believe such movie rentals used to do.
I just want to make sure I know how to properly do this on a future occasion when I might want to rent another movie. In some cases I will want to watch the movie on my iMac and sometimes via the Apple TV and that is why in the past I have done the rental on the iMac.
Any thoughts, missed steps or do I just remember past successes incorrectly?