*** The Official iPad (Early 2012) Thread ***

[ElliottJames]

Looked at these in the apple shop earlier. Could barely se any difference between the iPad 2 and 3. The only person doing that upgrade either has silly amounts of money, or not very much sense tbh.

Stop trolling or go back to the SWTOR thread.

 

[MrMoonX]

Looked at these in the apple shop earlier. Could barely se any difference between the iPad 2 and 3. The only person doing that upgrade either has silly amounts of money, or not very much sense tbh.

what did your guide dog think, cos clearly your blind

 

[Egon]

Or your eyesight is bad.

This.

I never owned the iPad 2 myself, but my Dad has one. Took my iPad 3 round the other day to compare, we could both notice a very clear difference.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Just an opinion. I also don't think it is worth the cost to upgrade unless you have stacks of money.

 

[Rooky007]

Just an opinion. I also don't think it is worth the cost to upgrade unless you have stacks of money.

I've not got sack of money but I sold my iPad 2 before iPad 3 release sold it for £325 so it no brainer to,upgrade for £75

 

[djcj]

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Well I didn't get any extras delivered, just 2 rogue payments for orders which 'didn't exist'.

Got the money today

Yeah i had a 'rogue' payment too. I only wanted 1 ipad, had 3 payments taken and 2 ipads delivered.

 

[Raymond Lin]

I remember paying £1400 for a PC with a SVGA monitor.

I would have snapped your hands off for a £660 iPad !

It is amazing how things have moved on. This thing is thinner than practically all photo frames out there, with better colours, resolution and it does so much more.

Amazing !

 

[Kainz]

place sell them.

You're a star. This will save me a ton. Can't believe I've not known about this

it's not micro-sim though, can you just cut it down?

Yep, you can cut it down and it'll work just fine

 

[CaptainRAVE]

I've not got sack of money but I sold my iPad 2 before iPad 3 release sold it for £325 so it no brainer to,upgrade for £75

Yeah, not too bad if you can get a decent price on the iPad 2. Especially if you can avoid seller fees via the bay.

Stop trolling or go back to the SWTOR thread.

If you are not going to post constructively, don't bother. I am getting quite tired of these constant personal attacks from you.

 

[dannyjo22]

Wow almost 47 deg C....

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/03/20...ipad-gets-warm-cant-charge-under-heavy-loads/

 

[Kainz]

Wow almost 47 deg C....

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/03/20...ipad-gets-warm-cant-charge-under-heavy-loads/

Ah good old Consumer Reports and their obsession with Apple. They clearly need to look at how hot a Macbook Air gets instead of wasting time on a warm iPad. With twice the battery in the iPad 3, it's amazing the amount of folk who are expecting the device to be cool to the touch.

 

[Vertigo]

fffuuuu where are you getting that sim from? I usually buy the same prepaid one from 3 direct and it is like £22.

Screw that! Try 3GB a month for 6 months for £26

 

[shipinabottle]

Screw that! Try 3GB a month for 6 months for £26

Care to share? what network?

 

[Vertigo]

Care to share? what network?

Dida mobile - virtual network operator using the 3 network. Not sure what I'm allowed to link to on here but if you search the bay you'll find them

 

[GJ02]

Dida mobile - virtual network operator using the 3 network. Not sure what I'm allowed to link to on here but if you search the bay you'll find them

thanks for that, whats the service like ?

 

[Vertigo]

thanks for that, whats the service like ?

On the 3 network and works fine providing you have decent coverage where you are. Don't know about Dida's customer service, never had to use it.

 

[shipinabottle]

Dida mobile - virtual network operator using the 3 network. Not sure what I'm allowed to link to on here but if you search the bay you'll find them

Cheers bud, shame you were too late in telling me, bought a 3GB Three sim to try. will give that a bash, but will probably try that the next time around and compare so for future use I know which to stick with. Three appears to be the best Data Network provider for us.

 

[shipinabottle]

Ok guys, I've been tinkering all night with this and I'm pretty sure I've sorted the HD playback.

Download XenonMKV and put your MKV files through that. It took 10 minutes with my i3 530 processor to output a 3.5gb 720p MP4 file that plays absolutely flawlessly through AVPlayerHD. This file is the one that was ridiculously choppy as an MKV file, now it's smooth as could be.

I figure a 10gb 1080p MKV would take around 25-30 minutes to output a perfect MP4 file on my PC. Certainly a lot better than the 6-7 hours it seems to take currently.

Give it a try and leave your feedback, hopefully this is the solution.

Edit - Just tried it with a 10gb 1080p MKV and it still only took 10 minutes! It works too. This was one of the files stuck at 0:00 with no video earlier, so looks like this is the way to go.

Hey, would just like to make a suggestion to people who have been using this method.

I found that the audio level wasn't very good, even when playing with the configuration of encoding. However I did encode, but rather than putting the 1080p video into AVplayerHD, I tried just syncing it to my Ipad, and it worked, beautiful video, beautiful sound. So just a heads up for anybody else who would possibly notice this and require a solution

 

[zoomee]

Anyone know of any software that can access and display MKV's from a QNAP NAS? ta

 

[Rids]

Anyone know of any software that can access and display MKV's from a QNAP NAS? ta

I would assume Air Video would work, as I can map my Drobo easily enough.