1080p download and playback bugs in iTunes 10.6 for Windows

With the new iTunes 10.7, Apple has still not resolved the problem.

Lamesauce 😟

The origin of my issue (may not be yours but try it) is that I had the audio bit & sample rate too high for the video playback. I had it originally set at 24 bit 192kHz. I then decided to set it back to 16 bit, 44.1kHz and worked fine from there.

Um where do you change that setting?

If you are using Windows, right click the sound icon in the taskbar, select 'Playback Devices' and double click the default sound device you are using (usually named 'Speakers' or 'Headphones') then go under 'Advanced' Tab. Here you can change the Default format back to 16-bit 44100 Hz (other way this is known is 44.100 kHz) since all iTunes purchases are sampled in that format.

Hmm yeah that didn't seem to fix it, but thanks anyway. 🙂

Hope that it gets solved soon 🙂

Wow...don't go buy a new card...totally software

I'm beginning to believe this is a classic case of forcing all apple users to buy their hardware or the software won't work.

From what I've picked up in this thread, all users having problems are running non-apple OS or hardware.

my laptop is i7 (3.6 w/TB), 1.75t 7200rpm, 16G Ram + 3G vRam, full 3D HD, and my desktop is stronger, both are running nVidia (so much for all the people thinking it was radeons faults).

Neither one will play 1080p without the error. So, lack of hardware is defintiely not the problem.

Also, is anyone experiencing this problem pre iTunes 10.6-7...I haven't heard about it, and I wasn't experincing problems in older versions.

If apple was half as interested in satisfying loyal customers as they were in pushing their gadgets and slamming update upon update to defeat tiny, 3rd party anti-DRM programs, we wouldn't be having this problem. I would think after seeing my various programs wanting to update 3 or more times a week, it would make my computer safer...but the updates aren't for our security...they are for apples, and during those updates, we can no longer play our bought and paid for 1080p on our bought and paid for machines without a hassle. This is the latest in the giant ball of junk I have had to swallow from this fruity company...

Just keep all the suckers going "ohhh" and "ahhh" with your shiny new toys that you'll make obselete in 3 months, maybe then they won't realize that apple is circling the drain...

Seriously uncool...

Finally solved with iTunes 11, at least on my PC. I no longer receive the warning about movies being too large to play.

Solved for me too.

Yep, working for me too finally... Though many features of iTunes 11 are kinda **** this is like totally different. Gonna take some getting used to.

Not sure if this will help much...but i experienced this problem after purchasing a HD version of a movie from iTunes store. my G5 powermac quadcore wouldn't play it, so i went to the "previously puchased" part of the iTunes sstore, to download previous purchases, unchecked the "download HD version when available" box, and it downloaded a SD version, which i can watch on my aging supercomputer of a desktop. Weird but effective workaround.

Ah, yeah not really relevant. Our issue was (thoughi it's fixed in 11 it seems) wasn't that our computer couldn't play it, it was that it told us our computer couldn't play it, then went ahead and played it anyway. In your case you very well might not be able to play it. So, you might want to double check that you really can't play it, or maybe you just need to upgrade to iTunes 11.

Downloading and using the SD version either way wouldn't be an effective workaround IMO, as if you paid for the HD version, you should be watching the HD version and if you can't for whatever reason, don't buy HD (though, you might check in your iTunes settings, maybe try 720p if you aren't able to play 1080, at least 720p should be possible. If not, then you totally need a new computer LOL)