How do I back up AppleTV purchases and play these again (with HomePod audio)?
How do i back up purchased tv series? I previously believed the movies and tv series I purchased on iTunes and Apple TV store would be mine to watch at any time. However I’ve learned these “purchases” are more like long-time rentals that can be revoked without notice at any time. (It seems the content owner has this right - though many people in that food chain have benefited from the proceeds of my often very expensive investment in their series.)
It appears my assumption that moving to a cloud host for my media purchases (e.g. Apple TV) was a false delusion on my part. I find I am required to back up all of these purchases somewhere - and that this is something I was naive not to have known all along.
I’m unable to find the best way to not only manage these downloads, but also how to easily store them in a way that would allow them to easily be played back via Apple TV. Essentially, I need the audio to be played using HomePods (I have 7 AppleTV 4K units and 14 HomePods, which are the only speakers I own).
So once my Apple media purchases have been backed up somewhere, somehow…how do I then find and play these in a way that allows me to use other (perhaps foolish) investments in Apple’s ecosystem? Or do I need to throw this all away and regress to dvds, dvd players and some other audio components?
