I purchased a movie on my apple tv last night. When I attempted to download the movie to my macbook I was prompted to buy it again. I used the same apple ID.
MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)
Download your past purchases - https://support.apple.com/HT201272 - "Find your past purchases in the iTunes Store, App Store, iBooks Store, and Mac App Store on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, PC, or Apple TV" "With iTunes in the Cloud, you can access your past purchases from the iTunes Store, App Store, iBooks Store, and Mac App Store." - enabled with iTunes 10.3 and newer; not all media formats are available in all countries (see: iTunes in the Cloud, iTunes Match, and iTunes Radio availability by country - https://support.apple.com/kb/HT204632); apps, books (not audiobooks), music, t.v. shows, and movies (some - not all studios have permitted this). Downloading previously purchased movies and TV shows requires iTunes 10.6 or later. Discontinued items not available. For items not included in the iCloud list (e.g., ringtones, audiobooks, alert tones, rental movies), or locations or computer systems where iCloud is not (yet?) available, you only get one download per fee paid. Apple recommends, "... back up your iTunes library. " (https://support.apple.com/HT201272). http://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/us/terms.html - "Some iTunes Eligible Content that you previously acquired may not be available for subsequent download at any given time, and Apple shall have no liability to you in such event. As you may not be able to subsequently download certain previously-acquired iTunes Eligible Content, once you download an item of iTunes Eligible Content, it is your responsibility not to lose, destroy, or damage it, and you may want to back it up." There is, however, this document about ringtones: Restore missing tones on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch running iOS 8.1.1 - http://support.apple.com/ht204076
06/2015 Exact instructions by turingtest2 - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7101454
If you see something that "prompts" you buy it, you should be on a different screen in iTunes Store. In the iTunes Store's main screen, along right side of window, find and click Purchased. On the Purchased screen, you can download previous purchases from your Apple ID. Set it to show Movies - Not in My Library. Download that movie from the list.
NOTE: If the Apple TV purchase was for a movie rental, it can only be played on the device used to rent.
how do i download a movie to my macbook that was purchased on apple tv
