iTunes Movie Rental Glitches
I rented a movie for the second time since iTunes is offering the rental option, I rented the movie War, with Jet Li and Jason Statham. The movie is ok, it didn’t really impress me, lots of action but weird plot. Don’t think that this post is a review about the movie, I’m going to talk about the rental experience.
I fired up iTunes and close every other application, looked for a movie, watch the previews and decided to watch War. I clicked on rent and confirm the rental, went to my kitchen to grab drink and returned to my room, then clicked play. The whole point on mentioning what I did is because I want you to have a clue of how much time went by before I hit play, I would say about 10 minutes.
The movie is 1.23GB in size and around 350MB had downloaded at the point when I hit the play button. I immediately noticed the glitches that I noticed on Fantastic 4, which was the first movie I ever rented on iTunes. The problem is not the amount of download then, we are talking maybe processing power.
I own a Mac mini with an Intel Core2Duo 1.83GHz and 1GB of RAM, the downside on this machine is that it only sports Intel GMA 950 discrete graphics with 64MB ram shared from the main board, meaning, I know my limitations. In addition to this, I have a 22-inch Westinghouse monitor that cost me only $169, which looks great but is not even close as good compared to some other brands.
The glitches I was seeing were like when a movie skips, you know, when a DVD is mildly scratch. Then to make things worse, an hour into the movie I pause it and when I hit play back the audio continue but the video was not moving. I had to exit full screen mode, search back a minute to start where I left off, and then enter full screen again.
This was so inconvenient, I don’t know for sure, if is that my system is underpowered for this type of use, but I’ve never had any problems playing DVDs. These are the only two issues I had, I’m hoping that they are software related. Share your experience with me, have you rented movies on iTunes? Have you noticed any glitches? And if so, what kind of configuration you have?
