User Guide

Watching Rented Movies and TV Shows
You can rent movies from the iTunes Store and watch them on iPhone. You can
download rented movies and TV shows directly to iPhone, or transfer movies from
iTunes on your computer to iPhone. (Rented movies and TV shows may not be
available in all countries or regions.)
See “Purchasing or Renting Videos” on page 174 .
A movie or TV show must be completely downloaded before you can start watching it.
You can pause a download and resume it later.
Rented movies and TV shows expire after a certain time, and once you start a movie or
TV show you have a limited amount of time to nish watching it. The time remaining
appears near the title. Rented items are automatically deleted when they expire. Before
renting a movie or TV show, check the iTunes Store for the rental period.
View a rented movie or TV show: On iPhone, choose iPod > Videos (tap More rst, if
Videos isn’t visible), then select the movie or TV show.
On iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS, you can transfer rented movies between iPhone and
your computer. On iPhone 4, you can transfer rented movies between iPhone and
your computer only if they were rented in iTunes on your computer. Movies rented on
iPhone 4 can’t be transferred to your computer.
Transfer a rented movie between iPhone and your computer:
1 Connect iPhone to your computer.
2 In iTunes, select iPhone in the Devices list, then click Movies.
3 Click Move next to the item you want to transfer, then click Apply.
Your computer must be connected to the Internet.
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