Apple TV 2 will not play purchased videos from an authorized computer

Hello Ben ... I seem to get stuck at the point of finding the Airplay button on my phone.The film is on my PC in my itunes library. Where should the Airplay icon actually be ? Thanks.

On the right hand side, square with a triangle.

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If you watch a YouTube video whilst near your appletv then this should be visible all the time .

Also, if this is not showing just reset your phone :-)

Ben --- Thanks for the advice. I still cannot locate the Airplay icon. I tried resetting the phone with similar results. I tend to think that the earlier post by User2009 stating that the Verizon iphone does not have all of the Airplay features may be correct.

That is a shame as it is a good function.

Worth finding out from an apple support tech.

Ben

Had auth problems like the rest of you and then had another brief problem tonight (solved by reauthorising and then turning home sharing on and off). To be honest getting a bit peeved with this unit now. We have to unplug it wait 30 secs at least twice a week since we've had it. Pretty flaky at the best of times but I get the feeling it isn't a faulty unit. I reckon it's software related and I would appreciate apple getting their fingers out of their arses and actually spend a bit of time on the software for this unit. On paper it's fantastic! And when it works properly it is a really great idea.

Oh and just to add to that... Renting movies is laughable on it and my ripped (legitimately mind you) material has played perfectly since day 1! A friend of mine downloads all his movies illegally and has one of those hard drives with an hdmi port. He's had less issues than me and I pay for my content!

Hi drjack69

I have never tried the rental on appletv, I rent on iTunes on our desktop then use appletv to watch it.

You get 30days to start watching it and you can watch it on any device.

Ben

I can confirm, both of my AppleTV legacies running 3.0.2 needed to make a new purchase to authorize purchases made from iTunes directly. My AppleTV 2 does not have this problem. It appears a patch is needed for the legacy AppleTVs to properly authorize with the new iCloud infrastructure. The work around is to make new purchases from your AppleTV legacy, and sync back to iTunes.

Had the same problem last night. so i did a restart on AppleTV2 by holding the "Menu" and Play/Pause button together for 5 sec (or when the AppleTV2 front LED starts ato flash). Everything works again.

I had the same problem as those back from October, and the solution of resetting the Apple TV 2 worked!

Just wanted to let everyone know That I called Apple support service the other night do to the issue, not knowing this was the solution and the Tech told me that he could help solve the issue but that it would cost me $30 for him to help me. Basicly he was trying to extort $30 out of me for a 2 second process. Wonderful customer support.

Some could argue that this might be done on purpose by Apple in order to extort $30 from less computer savy consumers. Will not be buying another Apple product again.