I can not find how move a rental movie from iTunes to my 5th gen. iPod...is it only the new iPods and iPhone that support transferring rental movies? Someone help please. I don't want to sit in front of my iMac for the entire movie but rather chill in my bed before I go to sleep and use my iPod. 🙂 Help!
I have the same problem. Rented movie and wanted to transfer it to my ipod so I could watch it on my tv. I looked at the directions:
"After the movie downloads to your computer, to transfer the rental to an iPod, iPhone, or Apple TV, connect the device, select it in iTunes, click the Movies tab, select the movie, and then click Move."
But there is no "Move"! In fact when I click on the movies tab under the ipod there is no movie. It shows up on my computer. Am I blind? How do I transfer it to my ipod? This *****.
It is obvious that Apple did not do their homework on this new rental feature. Basically they are saying if you don't go buy a new iPhone or new iPod, forget watching it on your "old" fifth generation, video iPod. Nice try, Apple. You are not giving us anything that we can't get through Blockbuster or Netflix. If you can't move it on a video iPod what's the point?
I came here to look this up. Steve kept saying "current iPod models" in the keynote, so I was pretty sure he was leaving out older ones. Well, my 5th gen is still working fine for music, and Steve will lose my movie rental business until I have a compelling reason to replace it.
So I've got an iPod that's less than two years old, which I connect to my standard-definition TV via an A/V cable, and it's useless for rentals?
The solutions offered are:
1) Purchase a new iPod and a new A/V cable.
2) Purchase an Apple TV and a new TV.
3) Carry my laptop and the external drive my library is stored on into the other room, and connect it to the TV with still more cables I don't have.
The excuse I've been given is:
Someone, somewhere, might set the iPod clock back (and never re-sync with their library), which will enable them to watch a rental for more than one day. Because of this scenario, all but the newest iPods are locked out of this deal.
There is absolutely no reason that Apple can't enable rentals on 5G iPods. I've been an Apple customer for fifteen years now, and I'm starting to believe that those that talk about constant upgrades were right.
We're not all made of money, Mr. Jobs, and we want to expect that the hardware we purchased will be useable for a reasonable amount of time.
I hope you guys are demanding your rental fee refunded. I was all up on apple rental now that I find out that I have been locked out i feel like a moronic apple groupie. My 5 g Ipod video is apparently too old and my new itouch did notcome with video outpit..i'm screwed.
I'm not renting anymore movies until it is possible to "move" them to the 5th gen. iPod w/ video. I already have a Blockbuster Online account which is a much better deal than iTunes movie rentals. And I sure as heck am not going to but a new iPod or iPhone just so I can watch iTunes rental movies. Sorry Apple - you lost me as a customer in this area.
OK!! I'm glad I'm not the only one this is happening to. I'm a little p---ed off I already paid for these rentals and I can't get them on the ipod. Let me know if any comes up with a solution.
I'm usually on the Apple-bandwagon, but this is p*poor if you ask me. The whole reason I rented the move was to watch on my TV using my iPod. Instead I'm stuck nose-pressed-to-the-screen of my MacBook, hoping to hear every other word with my weak MacBook speakers. I'd just buy the movie, but I'm out of space because the files are so darn huge, you can only own a few at a time. So, unfortunately for Apple, I'm tapped out on iTunes purchases until they come up with a fix. Way to grow your iTunes market! 🙂 (smirk)
