How to Watch iTunes Movies on Echo Show with Alex

Part 1. Amazon Echo Show Quick Review

What is Echo Show?

Echo Show is a smart speaker with HD display from Amazon. The second generation Echo show contains 2 models, Echo Show 8 and Echo Show 5 with 8 inch screen and 5 inch screen. Compared to the original one, the new model has a more powerful speaker system for better music performance.

What can you do with Echo Show?

Part 2. Why iTunes Movies Are Not Supported by Alexa

Alexa has many skills to enable you to listen to different music and watch great movies. You just need to connect the related services such as Apple Music, Spotify, NPR, Prime Video by inputting the account and password.

Also, if you'd like to listen to some songs or watch movies offline, you can simply upload them to Apple iCloud, Amazon Cloud, Plex Media Server and so on.

Regarding iTunes M4V movies or TV shows, there is not such a streaming built-in Amazon Echo Show nor is it possible to upload iTunes M4V to cloud drive due to the Apple decryption officially. That is why there is not an official way to play iTunes M4V videos on Echo Show.

Part 3. How to Play iTunes Videos on Echo Show

Nothing is better than lying on the sofa and enjoying your favorite movies.

So is there another better alternative way if you have already purchased lots of iTunes media files?

Alexa is always getting smarter day and day and Alexa may add the skills to play iTunes movies in the future. However, honestly we still don't know the exact date.

If you'd rather not wait any more, I'd highly recommend you to decrypt iTunes M4V files by using DRmare M4V Converter, which is an all-in-one tool for converting almost any videos to new formats in batch. After that, you can upload iTunes movies to Amazon Cloud Drive and ask Alexa to stream the videos to Echo Show directly.

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Before converting, you need to make sure your iTunes movies or TV shows are downloaded completely on your iTunes library. By the way, DRmare supports to convert both iTunes purchases and rentals to keep forever. The results are same. So you may just rent movies to save money.

Step 1 Add iTunes M4V videos

When you launch DRmare software, you can drag & drop the videos from iTunes DRmare main screen. Or you can click the "+" button from the bottom left screen to add the media files.

Step 2Start to convert iTunes videos

DRmare M4V Converter offers many options to help you customize video parameters, edit/cut/trim videos, but you don't have to change that if the default settings are good for you. And go ahead to click "Convert" button to unlock iTunes movies and convert M4V to MP4 common videos.

Step 3Upload videos to Amazon Cloud Drive

Amazon Cloud Drive offers one of the best ways to back your photos and videos to be accessed from other Amazon players and devices. You can install the Amazon Cloud Drive to your local computer and login with your Amazon account and password. Then you can drag & drop files into the window or you can click "Upload" to browse your files. When it is done you can play iTunes videos on Echo Show with Alexa.

Part 4. More Tips: Alexa Commands for Playing iTunes Videos

As a smart speaker, it is mainly control through voice commands. If you'd like to play the uploaded iTunes videos on Echo Show, you can use the following voice commands:

Besides, you can ask Alexa to play videos on your Amazon Fire TV etc. The commands are same.

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