iTunes Movie Rentals Now Good for 48 Hours

Apple tree just made information technology a lilliputian more attractive to rent movies off iTunes, especially for those of us with curt attention spans who can't sit through a whole characteristic moving-picture show in 1 sitting.

Now, once you lot start watching a picture show you lot've rented on iTunes, you take 48 hours to end it, according to an updated Apple tree support certificate. As MacRumors notes, Apple tree previously only gave renters in the Usa 24 hours to terminate a rented motion-picture show after pressing play.

Apple has offered 48-hour rentals to users in other countries for some fourth dimension, just for whatever reason the Cupertino tech giant is just now extending this perk to the Usa, but in time for the weekend.

During your 48-hour rental window, y'all can play the picture show as many times every bit you similar, but you only have 30 days to start watching a moving picture after renting it.

"If you don't first watching a movie within 30 days, you lot must hire it again," Apple tree advised. Any movies you've rented volition alive in your iTunes library until the rental period ends.

Meanwhile, if you love watching movies, you might want to consider getting a subscription to MoviePass. The service, which recently dropped from $30 a month to just $9.95, lets subscribers watch a new, second motion-picture show every single solar day at one of 4,000 flick theaters across the US. That'south a pretty insane deal considering the average cost of a unmarried movie theater ticket in the U.s. is now $8.89.

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