MacLife - UK (2019-12)

Home alone
Any videos you import into the
TV app yourself (rather than purchasing
from the iTunes Store) will appear in the
Home Videos category. If you don’t see
this, hover over Library, click Edit, and
tick any missing categories.

The ex–files

Videos you previously imported

into iTunes on this Mac should appear,

but your videos can’t be synced from the

cloud or between devices like music.

To add a video, go to File > Import

(previously Add To Library).

Lost in space

In TV > Preferences > Files, you

can choose whether to copy imports to

your media folder to keep everything

together. If you don’t, but change your

mind later, go to File > Library > Organize

Library to copy them in.

HOW TO Add your own videos

RESOLUTIONARY ROAD

Try the “4K and HDR” tab under

Library — you may have more

high–res content than you

thought. In 2017, Apple decided all

existing iTunes Store purchases in

HD would be eligible for a free

upgrade to 4K if and when a 4K

release became available.

Although very few older TV shows

have been upgraded to 4K and/or

HDR, many films have.

Note though that whether

purchased or rented, 4K titles can

only be streamed from iTunes

(accessed over the internet while

you watch) — you can only

download an HD version to keep.

And you’ll only get 4K on a recent

iMac or iPad with a 4K screen or

an Apple TV 4K box (connected to

a 4K TV, of course). See bit.ly/

mf4kfrmt for more info.

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