Question by mothercary: Has Apple released whether the DVD Player application will be available on the iPad?
I know it obviously won’t be able to play DVD’s, but there might be a way to connect a DVD player to it. This would be an alternative to filling up the small hard drive with iTunes library.
Best answer:
Answer by Excessive MHz
By “Hard Drive” you mean flash memory.
Also, you can fit quite a few movies on there as the resolution isn’t very substantial.
What do you think? Answer below!
There’s no easy way to connect a DVD player to an iPad. For one, it doesn’t have a TV tuner so you can’t hook any old DVD player (and even if it did, you wouldn’t be able to control the DVD with the iPad as it’d just be a video signal). Two, the iPad does NOT have a USB host, only a USB client, and if it does have a host it’s a lightweight host for memory cards, phones, cameras, etc, not for high-speed devices like an external optical drive. Third, Apple isn’t known for making advanced peripheral devices, only basic accessories, and since their goal with the iPad is portability, a DVD player addon would not work (for one, the iPad’s slimline battery is definitely not powerful enough to run a DVD player for more than a few minutes let alone hours). Also, letting you play store-bought DVD’s hurts iTunes, and Apple goes to great lengths to make sure consumers are locked into the iTunes store.
Even if the 0.0001% chance that Apple releases a DVD addon (that has it’s own battery pack and costs >$100 because it has to use the Apple proprietary protocol to talk to the iPad) why would you want to carry around an iPad with a bulky DVD accessory with all the cords to connect it, chargers to charge both of them, etc. Just get a laptop if you want that kind of functionality, the iPad falls into a fairly useless middle range, too big for a pocket device like the iPhone, too lacking to compete with small computers like netbooks, and the only other thing Apple provides are larger laptops like the MacBook.
Personally I would go with a netbook instead of an iPad. It may not be touch sensitive or have a giant half eaten fruit on the back, but it will do almost everything the iPad will and then everything a PC will, plus you can get one with a 160GB or 320GB (or even higher) hard drive so you have plenty of space to store all your DVD’s in high quality. I got a netbook (Lenovo IdeaPad S10) and couldn’t be happier with it, great for watching DVD rips in the car but does full size PC stuff like browsing the Web with YouTube and other video sites (and anything else that uses Flash) working.
DVD support will never come to iPad and very soon it will disappear from many netbooks to make it lighter.
If you want more memory , there are plenty of apps available that streams video,audio from home computer over Wi-Fi or 3G. You don’t have to be on the same network.
Besides, you can also get some memory on Box and Drop Box. Both have FREE apps for iphone/iPad.
DVD is in last phase of its life anyway.
NetBooks can never match the quality of iPad. Accelerometer based gaming interface with HD graphics makes it incredible. iWork is immaculate on it and it costs only $30. On netbooks MS Office cost somewhere near $115.
Thousand of wonderful apps make iPad a stupendous gadget. iPad has apps like YouTube,DailyMotion,Metacafe,TV.net and many thousand more. You can download files,Audio,Video,Books,Comics,.rar file,exe software right from iPad.
There are many apps available to download.
iPad is much more useful and than any netbook
You can watch full length movies,full episodes of TV shows, thousands of Animation movies and all kinds of video ONLINE for FREE.
You dont need FLASH support to play video content. R.I.P FLASH
All the websites are recoding video content in HTML 5.And iPad supports HTML 5
Don’t get an Ipad the Adam is much better and does MUCH MORE and is CHEAPER. It completely blows the ipad away. See for yourself:
http://www.notionink.in/adamtechspecs.php
of course,it cant play dvd.you need make some steps.then you can play dvd.
http://www.dvdtoipads.com/guide/dvd-to-ipad.html