Why won't my iTunes movie rental play or download?

agreed. I got the digital version of Deadpool yesterday, and it won't play at all on my PC. I've done just about everything I can think of, and it won't play at all. only thing I can think of, is that the digital version, is HD ONLY, and if your comp display isn't HD, you're SoL.

I don't really want to watch Deadpool, on a tiny little phone, that'll go from 100% battery power, to 5% in just a few minutes with a movie playing, but I may not have a choice. I'm seriously considering just deactivating my account...I shouldn't have to go to great lengths just to play a **** movie here. 😐

SAME PROBLEM!! I tried everything, reauthorizing/reauthorizing didn't work, minelayer didn't work, downloading in SD didn't work, so I finally decided to upgrade my software which took about 2 hours and ruined my movie night. After updating my software... I was able to watch Zootopia. Pretty ridiculous but glad I got it to work. Good luck to you all

De-Authorising and then authorising didn't work. Any suggestions?

Restarting my computer worked perfectly. If it asks if you still want to restart your computer while the movie is downloading, say yes. That's what I did. As soon as my computer restarted it said my movie was ready and started playing right away.

This did not work for me

DO NOT do this or your movie will show "Expired" and be removed from iTunes!

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Actually makes sense, given 24 hr viewing deadline.

THis was like a Windoze experience and is fkg disgraceful.

I'm an Apple user since 1984 who thinks this MUST be addressed!

THe above comment is in regards changing the System Clock! as suggested by erockinit

The fact that the iTunes software still does this (just sits there with a black screen without playing anything after pressing play) after 4 years... is amazing.

I Also downloaded Deadpool, it would not start.

Then I went into the audio, subtitles menu....I had "Prefer AC3 Passthrough" checked....as soon as I unchecked it, the movie started playing with 5.1 audio......something I can not do on Netflix..(Silverlight, HTML5 will not pass 5.1)

Same issue, surprised its 2016 and it still hasn't been resolved. Tried all the suggestions on this thread to no avail. Def wont buy/rent another movie on ITUNES !

that didn't fix mine

Hi, I think I might be a little late but I found the problem. I gave up on the trick with the Mini Player as it still didn't work. After an hour or so I searched every command possible and I made it show me the movie in Finder. I then opened it from the Finder. To my suprise it opened it in QuickTimePlayer and the Player told me that the Display I used wasn't authorized to play movies. I then proceeded to disconnect the display and tried playing the movie in itunes on my laptop without display. It worked. Try it. I hope I helped you.

Same issue here! Not happy. Will not be buying from iTunes again. If you happen to find a solution please let me know

Hey

My rental won't even begin to download. Please help