How do I watch my iTunes purchases (tv series & movies) on my Smart TV?

I have an LG smart tv and paid $5 for the app TV Cast for my iPad. With the corresponding app on the tv, I am able to show anything I can play on my iPad on my tv. I am reasonably sure that the app is available for other brands and devices.

Hahaha.... You don't become one of the World's largest companies by respecting your customers! The best way to squeeze money from chumps is to abuse them in an "ecosystem"! Have you never had your Apple device suddenly tell you one day that your charging cable (which had always worked before) just suddenly one day stop working?

Thankfully, the Internet provides ways to liberate you from your mistakes in choosing a closed platform like Apple. The main problem is something called "Fairplay DRM protection", which if you can get around... Voila! I think somebody at Apple had a laugh at your expense by calling this protection mechanism "Fairplay"... Like a slap in the face!

Ultimately, "all is fair in love and war", so if you love Apple, be ready for casualties to your wallet, and just fork out the money for an AppleTV... Or regain your freedom and find an alternative... You can curse Apple all you want... And even wish plagues and afflictions upon your overlords, but in the end, you'll probably have to accept that you are powerless against "the machine", and give in to karma.

Sorry to say that it's not possible for to watch purchased and rented movies on smart TV. Why not buy an Apple TV, which can help you to achieve this totally. Besides, you can have a try of DRmare M4V Converter, maybe it can help you do it.

Do you mean that watching iTunes movies and TV shows on Smart TV?

If so, unfortunately, there is no directly way for you to play iTunes videos on Smart TV, since iTunes APP is not available on Smart TV.

But there are two ways for you to do that:

The first approach is that you can purchase an Apple TV 4K from Apple. And Apple TV only is able to stream 4K videos.

The other way, also the common way is that you can use the DRmare M4V Converter to remove DRM from iTunes , and convert iTunes M4V to Sony TV compatible formats, such as MP4.

It isn't Apple. It's your TV. Does it allow for mirroring? That is a nice feature of Apple TV (among many others). If that's all you want you can probably buy a 3rd or 4th generation Apple TV for peanuts (as long as your TV supports HDMI).

Some of the newer mac laptops enable an HDMI connection which would work with your TV. I do not think iMacs do. Other than purchasing Apple TV 3 because iTunes Movies and TV shows are protected you could not play them excpet for streaming through an Apple TV

Personally I have my Apple TV hooked up a 46" Samsung LED and Onkyo Sound System and the movies in 1080p look and sound great. For the cost of £99 in the UK $99 in the US it seems a small price to pay to be able to sit back in the chair and watch on my TV

Sorry I could not help more

So it's Apple's fault that you bought the wrong thing.

Ah the direct approach.

Hey Winston I was born and brought up in Bispham and spent many hours in the Thatched refreshing to get back to straightforward😁

How peculiar. My wife is from Bispham (Beaufort Avenue & Monty high school) but was originally from Heald Green (Elmsliegh Road).

I'm only around 500 yds from the Thatched (straight line) but have only been in there 2 or 3 times myself (I'm a landlord at Poulton Business Park and prefer not to bump into my tenants out of hours, so usually do my drinking down South Shore).

Small World. 🙂

Norbreck and Blackpool Collegiate High School - its a small world

I totally agree with you @olibear! I have spent alot of money on itunes downloading tv shows and all i want to do is play them on my tv (not a smart tv). Is there really no way to transfer them to an external hard drive and play through the USB port on my tv? I also am not trying to do anything illegal!

Maybe I don't get the question, but can't you just hook a mini display port adapter to your iMac and plug an HDMI cable into it and send the signal to your television? Works great with my Mac mini and my macbook air. I've never oned an iMac, but they certainly must have a display port.

I second that! Here's what I tried: I ran a HDMI cable from my computer to my TV, and the TV shows did play (on the TV)....but with no sound. I guess I could plug some speakers into my computer to get the sound while I watch the TV but how far do I take this? Won't be buying any more TV shows or movies from Apple.