How to Download Free TV Episodes and Get $0.99 Movie Rentals from iTunes?
iTunes is a powerful multimedia player and multimedia file management tool, which can be used to play and organize your music and video files. Through the iTunes store, you can purchase music, audiobooks, movies, TV shows and music videos you like and enjoy them by downloading them to your computer or Apple devices. But do you know that there are free TV episodes and $0.99 movie rentals released periodically by iTunes? Do you know that there is a way in which you can watch those iTunes videos on your non-Apple devices and possess those movie rentals forever?
This article will show you how to find the free TV episodes and $0.99 movie rentals on iTunes, and tell you how to transfer iTunes videos to non-Apple devices and turn movie rentals to your movies forever.
Part 1: How to Get Free TV Episodes from iTunes?
Are you wondering where can you find free TV Episodes? You can follow the 5 steps below to get the free iTunes TV episodes.
Step 1: Run iTunes and click the “Account” tab on the top of the main interface to sign in with your Apple ID.
Step 2: Go into iTunes store and navigate to the menu on the left-top of the interface and choose the item of TV Shows.
Step 3: Scroll down and you can find the “Free TV Episodes” tab on the right pane. Click the tab go into an interface of “Free TV Episodes”.
Step 4: Choose the TV show you want and click the “get” button to add this episode to your library. Here you will be asked to tap your password of your Apple ID again. Just do it.
Step 5: Then you can go to your iTunes library to download the episode to your computer.
Part 2: How to Get $0.99 Movie Rentals from iTunes?
There is no free movie on iTunes, but you can spend only $0.99 to rent a movie. Now I will show you how to get $0.99 movie rentals from iTunes.
Step 1: Run iTunes and click the “Account” tab on the top of the main interface to sign in with your Apple ID.
Step 2: Go into iTunes store and navigate to the menu on the left-top of the interface and choose the item of Movies.
Step 3: Scroll down to the “Limited-Time Prices” section, and you can find $0.99 movie rentals of this week and the past weeks.
Step 4: Choose the movie you want and click the “rent” button below the movie poster to rent the movie. Here you will be required to tap into the password of your Apple ID again. Just do as the instruction says.
Step 5: After renting the movie, you can download it to your computer.
Now you have got free TV episodes and the cheapest movie rentals, but there are some restrictions that prevent you from enjoying these videos as the way you like. First, you can only watch these TV shows or movies on your Apple devices with the iTunes App; Second, once you start watching a movie rental, the movie rental will disappear after 24 hours (in the US) or 48 hours (elsewhere); if you don’t watch the movie, the movie will disappear after 30 days. See Things You Need to Know about iTunes Movie Rentals
It is because that these TV shows and movie rentals are protected by Fairplay DRM. To watch these videos freely, you have to remove the DRM protection. Now I will show you how to remove the DRM protection.
Part 3: How to Remove DRM from TV Episodes and Movie Rentals?
DVDFab DRM Removal for Apple is an excellent and professional DRM Removal tool that can remove DRM from Apple Music, purchased or rented iTunes videos, iTunes audiobooks easily and quickly. The removal process is lossless, so it can output audio or video files that have the same quality with the original files. It is not free, but you can try it freely for 30 days, during which period you can remove DRM from 1 iTunes video and 5 songs or audiobooks without spending a penny.
DRM Removal for Apple – Windows version
Note:
Before using DVDFab DRM Removal for Apple, you need to allow iTunes to “share iTunes library XML with other applications”. Please run iTunes, navigate to Edit > Preferences > Advanced, and check the box before “Share iTunes Library XML with other applications”.Moreover, you have to make sure your iTunes is logged in.
Step 1: Run DVDFab 10, go to Utilities module and click DRM Removal for Apple.
Step 2: Choose the option “For Video”.
Step 3: Add the iTunes videos. You can click “Add from Windows” to add the files from This PC > Music > iTunes > iTunes Media > Movies (the default folder location of iTunes), or click “Add from iTunes” to add the videos by clicking the box before it.
Step 4: Click the “folder” icon to select an output directory.
Step 5: Click the “Start” button to begin the removal process.
After only a few minutes, you can get the TV shows or movies which are free of DRM. Then you can enjoy these videos on your non-Apple devices like your Android phone and possess those movie rentals forever.