Amazing Spiderman movie download does not play, what's up with that?

I bought the "Amazing Spiderman" movie in iTunes; it will not play on my Mac Pro. A version of it did start on my ipad(3) wanted to finish on my Mac but all I get is a black iTunes window with controls and everything, but it will not play. They still haven't updated Apple support pages to reflect Mountain Lion (10.8.2).

Oh, other movies that I have bought or ripped seem to work fine.

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

Posted on Nov 10, 2012 8:16 AM

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Posted on Nov 10, 2012 9:20 AM

You may have bought/ downloaded the Hi Def version of the movie but your monitor/graphics card combination doesn't support the HDCP protocols necessary to play the DRMed HiDef movies offered.


Try to download the standard def version that will play for sure.

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Nov 10, 2012 8:36 AM in response to Tim McCoy

Update:


I tried downloading this twice. I threw the first copy in the trash. After the second download failed too, I pulled the 1st movie from the trash to my desktop and tried to run it again. Double click on it and it started a tiny app I had downloaded previously (SaberFX) but never used. That's really odd. I think Apple has a daabase problem.

Nov 10, 2012 2:03 PM in response to Tim McCoy

I got this response; I would have expected it to appear here, but it didn't.


Keith Doherty3 wrote:


You may have bought/ downloaded the Hi Def version of the movie but your monitor/graphics card combination doesn't support the HDCP protocols necessary to play the DRMs HiDef movies offered.


Try to download the standard def version that will play for sure.


Fortunately Apple lets you download the standard version free (after you've paid extra for the HD version)

When it finishes downloading, I will try it again.


Oh, it did show up!

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