Renting movies through itunes...

Mips

I just paid to rent a movie through itunes... it is telling me it will be done in 48 minutes and is installing 1gb...

.. am not pleased! Is this going to clog all my memory? And why is it taking so long... I wanted to watch it now.

If I had known this I wouldn't have wasted £3.50.

ETA: It is saying 20 mins now.. will it be here sooner?

Antispam

I would have thought it woudl be downloaded to your HD and allowed to view it over a certain time, I could be wrong of course

£3.50 is alot I rather buy a older film on dvd for that

what film is it.

1gb is a not lot of a good quality film it will be compressed quite a bit although it could be worse a decent bitrate would be about 1.5gb or greater for a 1.30 min film

Mips

No you are right - I have 48 hours to view it. It is 1.24gb with 23 minutes remaining - will it just vanish then and take all is gb's with it?

The film is Fools Gold.

timcrips

that sucks im with you on that, i feel your pain, 1GB cheeky or what.

Marty_J

It has to download the film onto your computer in order for you to watch it.

Antispam

Argh 1.24gb isnt too bad then although it is 112 mins long

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0770752/

Haven't heard of this film

Marty_J

Antispam wrote: »

I would have thought it woudl be downloaded to your HD and allowed to view it over a certain time, I could be wrong of course

£3.50 is alot I rather buy a older film on dvd for that

what film is it.

1gb is a not lot of a good quality film it will be compressed quite a bit although it could be worse a decent bitrate would be about 1.5gb or greater for a 1.30 min film

The files are compressed as h.264.

A film that is 1.24 GB in size should look OK.

Antispam

Yes I thought they would use that you can get more compression with h.264

Marty_J

Antispam wrote: »

Yes I thought they would use that you can get more compression with h.264

Indeed you can. I have some films compressed to 350 MB using h.264 for my PSP, and they still look fine on my monitor.

Mips

timcrips wrote: »

that sucks im with you on that, i feel your pain, 1GB cheeky or what.

I know.. and I was kind of hoping to be asleep by 2am watching a nice mellow film :rotfl:

Only 9 minutes to go now though... unless it changes again!