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In the Preferences window, click on Downloads.
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Or, to put it another way, I probably wouldn’t be able to tell you the picture was 720p unless I looked at the settings. Step 2 Full HD Movies Download 1080p Setting.
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It’s there if you look closely, but I’m not sure this is the kind of thing I’d pay much attention to if I wasn’t comparing one image against another. I was sitting about a foot and a half away from my monitor - a 3,440-by-1,440 display - which should have made it easy to see the difference between a stretched 720p from a 1080p picture. When I watched both versions of the video, I was a little surprised at how tricky it was to see the quality differences. The videos’ frame rates were also incorrectly listed at 0.10 frames per second, which would look like molasses if it was true. Both were also listed as having the same dimensions (640-by-266) in Windows’ File Explorer, which couldn’t be correct. The 720p version of Dredd clocked in at 3.19GB to the 1080p version’s 3.53GB.
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While, true, a 720p movie is still “HD,” someone glancing at the file name might not know that “HD,” in this case, does not mean “1080p HD” per se. They were named differently-“04 Dredd (HD).m4v” in one case and “04 Dredd (1080p HD).m4v” in another. I looked at the files iTunes was downloading with and without the “Download full-size HD videos” option checked. If you didn’t realise iTunes’ quirks, and you’re watching your film in full screen mode, you might not even notice that the movie you downloaded has a resolution of 720p instead of 1080p. This solves the confusing quality issue-something you can always check by right-clicking on the movie, selecting “Movie Info,” selecting “File,” and looking for the movie’s “video quality” line. There’s another setting within iTunes’ that actually controls the quality of movies you download-and it’s not the setting in “Playback.” Under the Downloads section of your settings (naturally), you’ll want to uncheck “Download high-quality SD videos” and check “Download full-size HD videos” if you want to download and view 1080p versions of your movies. That’s not too confusing, but we’re not done yet. Unlike other streaming services, which give you a full-sized player at a lesser quality, Apple’s implementation gives you a smaller player (if you’re too trigger-happy with “actual size”) until your stream switches over to 1080p. This isn’t really a problem if you enlarge the player or full-screen it as soon as you start watching, but it’s a quirky sizing issue worth highlighting for those watching in a window. You have to wait for the movie to play for a bit before you pick “actual size,” which will then allow you to watch it in a 1080p-sized window.
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If you’re streaming your movie in iTunes, this smaller-sized player is as big as the movie gets if you’re too quick to pick the “actual size” option.