4K TV users' problems: "Can I install iTunes onto Panaonis 4K TV", "How to get iTunes on my Samsung 4K SUHD TV", "How to play download iTunes movies on 4K TV"... At the moment, there is no official iTunes streaming client for new 4K TV, Smart TV and LED TV. With all the lawsuits being flung by Apple and Samsung at each other, I don't see a iTunes TV client anytime soon. So, you can't get a iTunes app for new 4K TV installion. According to personal experience, I would like to share the 4K TV iTunes movies playback solution.
The best way to play iTunes movies on 4K TV is transfer iTunes movis to USB Flash Drive for playing ffreely. But iTunes M4V files are not like regular files, they are embedded with DRM protection that prohibits the iTunes file from being played on media players other than apple devices and a limited numbers of computers. To play iTunes M4V videos and TV Shows on 4K TV through USB drive, you will need to remove the DRM protection from iTunes media files and convert it to a regular movie file format supported by 4K TV's USB drive playback capability.
Acrok Media Converter is a DRM removal software which can convert iTunes M4V moveis to unprotected format for different portable devices. It works perfectly on Windows 10, as well as Windows 8.1/7/Vista/XP.
Below is a guide help you play iTunes movie on 4K TV, 4K UHD TV and 4K SUHD TV. Just keep reading.
How to remove DRM protection for playing on 4K TV via USB Flash Drive?
Step 1: Install iTunes M4V ConverterHere, make sure that your computer is authorized by source iTunes video which means you can play iTunes movies in iTunes without trouble. Allow the audio drive installed during Acrok Media Converter installation.
2. Load iTunes M4V movies
Then click "Add video", "Add from Folder" from iTunes Library to the program. You can add multiple files at a time. If you have downloaded the movies from iTunes, drag & drop video into this iTunes to 4K TV Converer.
3. Choose output format for your TV.
Click the “Format” and enter “HDTV" to choose “HDTV 1080P Video (*.mp4)” as the output format.
4. Start Video Conversion.
When all the settings are OK, click the Convert button on the main interface to start removing DRM from iTunes movie and converting to the MP4 for your 4K TV, 4K UHD TV or 4K SUHD TV. After the conversion, click “Open” to quick locate the converted video. Now, you can watch iTunes movies on 4K TV via USB Flash Drive easily.
Read more: Smart TV supported formats
Smart TV is very versatile and powerful in handling various video and audio codecs, there are literally little to none file format that are not on the support list of a Samsung, Sony, Panasonic, LG, Vizio, Sharp Smart TV, except for the DRM embedded contents. But if your smart TV set is an relatively order model, when playing MKV files with dts audio, the sound might be missing. So for playing MKV movies on Smart TV, you need to convert MKV to Smart TV best playbck format with Acrok program.
Is this a copy protected file from iTunes?
ReplyDeleteIf not, m4v is essentially the same as mp4, and most players should be able to play either, possibly after changing the file extension.
If it is copy protected, Google suggests there are ways around that still. I don't know if they are free or not. Sometimes that is the (additional) price of paying for media.
Here in this post, you can find both solutions for no-DRM file and DRM file.
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