Which capacity iPad 4?

There's two apps I'd recommend for streaming, VLC Streamer and AirVideo.

AirVideo will convert them for you and put them into iTunes on the machine you're streaming from. So you can copy them over if you wish.

VLC is great, no real description needed here.

Also, it's not possible to add additional storage to the iPad, but you could look into cloud storage for your documents & pictures. Use Spotify for music, ect.
 
At the moment I use iSub to stram music (to iPhone) and Orb Live to handle video.

I have also considered Plex setup and may well use this for the iPad.

When you say AirVideo will convert the videos.... convert them into what format?

At the moment I'm thinking I might go for the 32GB model, purely because I am not sure 16GB will be enough, but I'm struggling to justify going from £319.20 all the way to £447.20 for the 64GB a jump of £128 is painful at best.

Thanks,

G
 
Guru said:
At the moment I use iSub to stram music (to iPhone) and Orb Live to handle video.

I have also considered Plex setup and may well use this for the iPad.

When you say AirVideo will convert the videos.... convert them into what format?

At the moment I'm thinking I might go for the 32GB model, purely because I am not sure 16GB will be enough, but I'm struggling to justify going from £319.20 all the way to £447.20 for the 64GB a jump of £128 is painful at best.

Thanks,

G
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I believe it converts them into MP4 while you watch them, there's a queue too. It's like a video server you install, the iPad app is the client and it can queue them up on the server for conversion while you watch them. You can watch them as many times as you like though.
 
I have the 16GB iPad 4.

Plenty for me. All films/tv shows etc are streamed via my HP microserver over the network. I have music sync'd, plenty of games installed from my itunes account (also have iphone 5), large pdf prima guides via ibooks and magazines, comics etc and am not struggling to fill it.

Unless your installing stuff for the sake of it, or storing 720p quality media files on the device than its perfectly manageable. If your not using something - uninstall it. If your no longer listening to that album - desync it.
 
I went with 32 in the end. Seemed the best compromise between usability and minimising the con that is apple storage pricing.
 
[TW]Fox;23146623 said:
How do you get over the continually irritating fact that you've basically paid an extra £160 for 48gb of flash memory worth about 30 quid? This is what puts me off anything but the base model - it's such a massive con.
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The same reason I pay £5+ for cold remedies when they cost pence to make.
I need it so I dont mind paying for it :)

Three 64GB iPads here :)
 
[TW]Fox;23284879 said:
I went with 32 in the end. Seemed the best compromise between usability and minimising the con that is apple storage pricing.
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What I decided in the end when going for one, seemed the most reasonable (as it can be) compromise.
 
Ev0 said:
What I decided in the end when going for one, seemed the most reasonable (as it can be) compromise.
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It's just bonkers isn't it - we only have ourselves to blame for this transition from mobile devices with external memory card slots through to fixed capacity storage with no expandability and large price gaps between each model.

I can totally see why Apple do it - people are daft enough to say 'Well it costs what it costs' and buy it - but it's an irritating backwards step, IMHO.

Paying what, £170 extra for 48gb of flash memory thats available to buy seperately for about 25 quid is madness. The only defence we have against this is simply to not pay it. Trouble is there are enough people out there who will pay it to mean that I doubt the situation will change any time soon.
 
Minstadave said:
The problem is that so many will pay it, so much so that google seems to be following suit and is killing off SD cards in its devices.
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It's such a shame, isn't it. People just seem to not mind that manufacturers are slowly killing off the concept of expandable flash storage for nobodies gain but their own. None of us benefit from the lack of SD card slot.

And frankly smug replies about how you can afford a 64gb iPad because 'well its what it costs' are not only missing the point but are the problem in the first place. If everyone thought 'errr, what?!' then they'd soon stop.
 
The mark up on Apple storage is small compared to many other products we all buy everyday. Welcome to the world of retail.
 
if its just for media that you need the extra (i.e. movies and music) can i suggest the Seagate GoFlex Satellite?

Its a £100 external 500GB HDD that creates a wifi hotspot that your ipad/iphone (in fact most any web device) connects to, and then streams content you choose. Can also be used as a standard HDD.

Dropped one on my xmas list.
 
[TW]Fox;23294020 said:
It's such a shame, isn't it. People just seem to not mind that manufacturers are slowly killing off the concept of expandable flash storage for nobodies gain but their own.
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While there are obvious financial benefits to killing off expandable storage and clearly Apple are one of the worst offenders there are good technical reasons. Here is a good summary of some of those benefits:

http://www.androidcentral.com/why-nexus-devices-have-no-sd-card
 
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