iTunes Movie Rental on won't play on Apple TV 2 (2010)

Rentals from the iTunes Store are only able to be played on the device that are used to purchase the content. If you bothered to read the fine print when renting the movie you would have realized that this isn't an 'error'. This means that if you rent a movie on your Mac, it can only be played on a Mac. If you rent a movie on an iPad or iPhone, it can only be played on them. Same goes for the apple Tv; if you want to watch a movie on the big screen you will have to rent it from the Apple TV directly. Purchased movies ARE able to AirPlay from your computers but NOT rentals.

If this is the case then why can I airplay rented films from my iPhone 4 to Apple TV? I didn't think I'd be able to, but it worked...

My experience contradicts Lee3G's interpretation of Apple's movie rental agreement.

Have ATV2 w wireless connection. Just rented "Star Trek (HD)" using iTunes on my iMac. Started the movie on the iMac then switched iTunes speaker selection (lower right of iTune's window) from "Computer" to "Apple TV". Movie started playing fine on TV within a few seconds. This is the procedure outlined by Marty Richard in 4-Jan response to Midijamman.

ATV remote "Pause/Play" button works even though iMac is not in line-of-sight. Don't know if ATV remote is controlling ATV or iMac (via reflected infrared), but there's no need to return to computer to pause movie.

I'm not a lawyer but I don't see that projecting rented movies from one's iTunes library using ATV is a legal problem since the rented content exists in only one device (computer). However, it's perplexing to me that one apparently cannot rent a movie from an iPad and, likewise, project the downloaded rental movie from the iPad to a TV using Apple TV. Has anyone successfully done this?

Thanks in advance for your time and interest.

Just rented movie, "The Help - HD", from my iPad. Verified that movie played okay on iPad then switched output from "iPad" to "Apple TV". On two previous movies this has resulted in Apple TV error message. This time it worked fine and the movie almost immediately started playing on my TV. Cannot explain why this has not worked on two previous movies rented from iPad. Haven't changed anything on my end. Hope this is a stable situation. Ability to view rentals on either the iPad or the TV is of significant benefit in our household.

Likewise, first attempt to airplay a rental from my iPad to Apple TV tonight and it worked first time with no issue at all 🙂

My rentals on iPhone and iPad that played on airplay were both free rentals from Orange Film to Go so maybe the copyright is relaxed on these films 😕

Not tried a paid-for rental yet...

Rentals from the iTunes Store are only able to be played on the device that are used to purchase the content

that is extremely false and clearly spelled out in the Apple "fine print"... if you rent it on your mac, you can "move" it to ipods iphones ipads and apple TV's...

HD movies rented using Apple TV can’t be transferred to another computer or device though.....

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1390

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH1705

Can I suggest what might be happening.

My home sharing is set up using my Apple ID. But my partner rented a movie using her Apple ID. Maybe this is why I can see all of her content on the Apple TV (via home sharing) except for the rented movie?

Could this be the case?

Thanks

Morgs

Hi guys. Had this problem for the last few days. Turned out that the date/time had messed up and reset to jan 1 2002. When I switched it back to the right time and date it fixed my rentals with itunes (was getting black screen and nothing was working). Make sure you hit save and lock further changes when you change the date and time. It also fixed a couple of other problems I was having with safari.