How to keep rented iTunes movies for ever

Renting iTunes movies online is meant to be like visiting the video store. You watch and return it back after rental period is over. Certainly, iTunes video rental service is the lower cost alternative to buying these videos. Renting iTunes movie will cost you only $3.99 vs. $19.99 for buying. On the other hand, rented videos have additional viewing limitations. Once you have paid and downloaded the new item to your computer, you have 30 days to watch it. Otherwise the video will expire and delete itself from your library. Once you've clicked "Play" button, you have only 24 hours to watch the rented movie. There's a standard iTunes playback device limitation as well. Rented videos are available for playback on Apple-only devices: iPod, iPhone, Apple TV and your authorized PC with iTunes. Well, it would be nice to keep iTunes rented videos on your computer without such limits.

As you know, everything we can play on our computers can be recorded. And that's why SoundTaxi software has the perfect solution to keep rented iTunes movies for ever. SoundTaxi will convert rented iTunes movies into unprotected video formats preserving original video definition, sound and video quality. Converted files don't have neither playback nor time limitations. After conversion you can save rented iTunes movies to DVD and Blu-ray Disc for storing and watch them anytime. Depending on conversion purpose, you can easily vary output video picture size and file format. SoundTaxi will convert rented iTunes movies to AVI for playback on home DVD/DivX player, into WMV video for playback on Zune and Windows PC, and convert to MP4 for iPod, iPhone, PSP and other MP4-compatible players.

Actually there might be some additional ways around iTunes DRM protection. For example pushing your System time forward and back and then restarting iTunes worked in the past. In the result your rental period has been extended for a year or so. However the movie transfer between Apple devices was completely disabled. That's why the conversion software looks like the most reliable way to keep iTunes rented videos on your computer in any desired video format without DRM protection.

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