Re: A very frustrating discovery regarding playing movies downloaded from iTunes

2014-02-13 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, I don’t think so Chris. Because the Mac uses the special adaptors to convert to VGA, I believe the chip in the adaptor itself won’t allow the connection. Could be wrong but, I believe that’s the case. Probably those folks purchasing movies from other than iTunes might be doing it on a Wi

Re: A very frustrating discovery regarding playing movies downloaded from iTunes

2014-02-13 Thread Chris Blouch
Got behind on my reading. Is it possible to use VGA to the projector? VGA being an old analog standard lacks all the DRM baggage. CB On 1/27/14 8:36 PM, Christine Grassman wrote: We were using HDMI. On Jan 27, 2014, at 4:40 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: Sounds a bit odd. What was the connection

Re: A very frustrating discovery regarding playing movies downloaded from iTunes

2014-01-28 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi, Perhaps, but prior to streaming content, those copies were physical items with the possibility of easy copying and duplication a great deal more difficult. certainly not in digital quality. If your goal is one that would fall under the license agreement, then this should be no issue for yo

Re: A very frustrating discovery regarding playing movies downloaded from iTunes

2014-01-28 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, I know what you mean and feel your frustration. I was a teacher in the classroom up until three years ago but now manage the technology for our school district. Just because it has been done, or is done, doesn’t necessarily mean that it is legal or in the spirit of the law. Teachers are

Re: A very frustrating discovery regarding playing movies downloaded from iTunes

2014-01-28 Thread Christine Grassman
Agreed in principle, but teachers have been showing videos purchased by them or through their schools for decades. So such restrictions, insofar as for educational purposes, is a step backwards, not forwards. Christine On Jan 28, 2014, at 3:22 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > It looks like t

Re: A very frustrating discovery regarding playing movies downloaded from iTunes

2014-01-28 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, It looks like they’ve changed some things around a bit or I’ve got some things backwards. When the movie is downloaded, you are correct in that it only shows the versions of HD available. If the movie is up in the Cloud,, that is, it's not yet downloaded, the SD version is available in th

Re: A very frustrating discovery regarding playing movies downloaded from iTunes

2014-01-28 Thread Christine Grassman
It appears to be downloaded. Other movies in the cloud have a download button next to them, while this one does not. Perhaps it is because it was originally purchased on the iPhone? Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 28, 2014, at 0:01, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Hi, > > Is the video downloaded to the

Re: A very frustrating discovery regarding playing movies downloaded from iTunes

2014-01-27 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Is the video downloaded to the local machine or still in the Cloud? When iTunes downloads the video to the local machine, it downloads both versions. Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jan 27, 2014, at 6:47 PM, Christine Grassman wrote: > When I go into the video quality sub

Re: A very frustrating discovery regarding playing movies downloaded from iTunes

2014-01-27 Thread Christine Grassman
When I go into the video quality submenu, it is only offering two HD versions: Default HD 1080 P and High Definition 720 P Christine . On Jan 27, 2014, at 5:59 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > I’ve seen this with HD movies purchased from iTunes. There are threads on > the Internet talking

Re: A very frustrating discovery regarding playing movies downloaded from iTunes

2014-01-27 Thread Christine Grassman
We were using HDMI. On Jan 27, 2014, at 4:40 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > Sounds a bit odd. What was the connection from your MacBook to the projector? > I know there is a bag of hurt around HDMI and HD video DRM but if you were > using the analog VGA connection that shouldn't have had anything

Re: A very frustrating discovery regarding playing movies downloaded from iTunes

2014-01-27 Thread Christine Grassman
No -- just a cable between the MacBook and the projector, which has always worked in the past. Same projector, same MacBook, same cable. (Though we did try a different cable, thinking perhaps the cable might be the issue.) Christine On Jan 27, 2014, at 4:53 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > That which

Re: A very frustrating discovery regarding playing movies downloaded from iTunes

2014-01-27 Thread Christine Grassman
I will definitely give that a whirl tomorrow. Christine > > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.co

Re: A very frustrating discovery regarding playing movies downloaded from iTunes

2014-01-27 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, I’ve seen this with HD movies purchased from iTunes. There are threads on the Internet talking about it that I browsed sometime during last Fall. Supposedly, if you view the SD version instead of the HD version,, iTunes will allow many of the projectors to show the content. All Movie/TV

Re: A very frustrating discovery regarding playing movies downloaded from iTunes

2014-01-27 Thread Ray Foret Jr
That which I described before happened when I connected my HDTV through my AV receiver and connected my Iphone via HDMI directly to my AV receiver. Just a thought, but, have you attempted to pass the signal from your movie playback source, (Mac or Iphone ETC) to an AV receiver and then to the p

Re: A very frustrating discovery regarding playing movies downloaded from iTunes

2014-01-27 Thread Chris Blouch
Sounds a bit odd. What was the connection from your MacBook to the projector? I know there is a bag of hurt around HDMI and HD video DRM but if you were using the analog VGA connection that shouldn't have had anything to do with it. CB On 1/27/14 2:28 PM, Christine Grassman wrote: Hello all.

Re: A very frustrating discovery regarding playing movies downloaded from iTunes

2014-01-27 Thread Christine Grassman
Thanks; we did try this. More than once. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 27, 2014, at 14:41, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > > I’d plug in and then try to play your movie. I have found, at times, that if > I make the mistake of trying to switch inputs on my AV receiver while playing > an ITunes movie I b

Re: A very frustrating discovery regarding playing movies downloaded from iTunes

2014-01-27 Thread Ray Foret Jr
I’d plug in and then try to play your movie. I have found, at times, that if I make the mistake of trying to switch inputs on my AV receiver while playing an ITunes movie I bought, I sometimes get a warnning that the movie cannot be played on the device. So, I exit out of the attempt to play t

A very frustrating discovery regarding playing movies downloaded from iTunes

2014-01-27 Thread Christine Grassman
Hello all. In the past, I have been able to connect my MacBook to a projector and play any movies in my iTunes library. However, (and it has been months since I did this), today it did not work. The movie would play on the computer itself, but as soon as the projector was connected, it would st