Putting movies on iPad? Renting vs. buying, etc.

[Disney Addicted]

You can expand your storage with a wi-drive. It acts as a mini hotspot of sorts. The files are stored on the wi-drive and you use an app on your iPad to access it. My iPad has 64GB of space but I got a Kingston Wi-Drive 64 GB USB 2.0 Pocket-sized Portable Storage from Amazon when it was on sale before Christmas. I store the movies on there and they can be shared by up to 3 devices simultaneously.

One device you may want to look into purchasing is a Seagate GoFlex Satellite. It is an external hard drive that you can store hundreds of digital movies on (or whatever else you want to store). It creates its own little wifi (the wifi does not let you access the internet, only the information stored on the external hard drive) and can be accessed by up to three devices at once. We use it in the car for road trips and on planes that allow wi-fi (most of them do now). My boys can each watch their own movie on their iPods while DH and I watch another movie on the iPad. It's a pretty neat gizmo . We now have pretty large library (I would guess around a hundred movies) that we carry with us on the GoFlex whenever we take a trip. Here's a link to the product (boy I sound like a commercial!!): http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Satellite-Wireless-External-STBF500101/dp/B004Z0S7K6/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1359204228&sr=8-2&keywords=goflex+satellite

Thank you for posting this!!! Something I'm going to look into now I know about it.

 

[Marionnette]

There is another option
You can purchase a dvd converter. Its about $40. I have used it for the last four or five years. Its really user friendly. The joy of this program is that you can not only load your own dvds but you can load any dvd you rent from blockbuster.
Used it last year to load movies on my daughters ipad 3
Here is the link

Making copies of DVDs that you own is subject to debate but making copies of DVDs that you rent is definitely against copyright law. We really shouldn't be offering tips on how to break the law.

 

[My2CrazyGirls]

There is another option
You can purchase a dvd converter. Its about $40. I have used it for the last four or five years. Its really user friendly. The joy of this program is that you can not only load your own dvds but you can load any dvd you rent from blockbuster.
Used it last year to load movies on my daughters ipad 3
Here is the link

http://www.pqdvd.com/articles/dvd-to-ipod-conversion.html

It only talks about ipods, not ipads

 

[searlproudbottom]

Making copies of DVDs that you own is subject to debate but making copies of DVDs that you rent is definitely against copyright law. We really shouldn't be offering tips on how to break the law.

Dear Marionnette

First let me say that I am not a copyright attorney and the odds are that you are not one either. After reading your post quoting me I thought I would do a little research in the matter. The copyright laws are vague. What I said in my post was not illegal. The software that is for sale is not illegal. In fact it has been reviewed on CNET a very reputable website. And last WE did not offer any tips on how to break the law. Because of the Dis Boards Police many good people like myself have filtered to other websites.

Good bye

 

[moopdog]

Dear Marionnette

First let me say that I am not a copyright attorney and the odds are that you are not one either. After reading your post quoting me I thought I would do a little research in the matter. The copyright laws are vague. What I said in my post was not illegal. The software that is for sale is not illegal. In fact it has been reviewed on CNET a very reputable website. And last WE did not offer any tips on how to break the law. Because of the Dis Boards Police many good people like myself have filtered to other websites.

Good bye

Thanks to all for the tips. I think for now we're just going to rent a couple movies for the way down & back. Then while there we can always use Netflix for in-room stuff if we even feel that's necessary.

For what it's worth I also was scared off by 'the police' as you call it. Negativity, rudeness, etc. I left the Dis for awhile but had to come back as I REALLY needed some input for our upcoming trip. I totally get what you're saying. Some people.... I just wonder what they're like in person. Yikes!

 

[Marionnette]

Thanks to all for the tips. I think for now we're just going to rent a couple movies for the way down & back. Then while there we can always use Netflix for in-room stuff if we even feel that's necessary.

For what it's worth I also was scared off by 'the police' as you call it. Negativity, rudeness, etc. I left the Dis for awhile but had to come back as I REALLY needed some input for our upcoming trip. I totally get what you're saying. Some people.... I just wonder what they're like in person. Yikes!

I don't think it's rude to point out when someone is encouraging illegal activity.

It never surprises me when people take offense when they called out for breaking the law and pretend that the "police" are the ones who are somehow in the wrong for calling attention to it. It's just a reflection of our society as a whole.

 

[Kies99]

 

[Lewisc]

So much misleading and wrong information in this thread.

If you think there are DIS police posting then there must also be DIS criminals.

If you think there are DIS morality police posting then there must be immoral DIS posters. You don't have one without the other.

Removing the protection so you can convert a DVD for use on an iPad is illegal. Many people think it's moral to convert a movie you own. ITA but my opinion doesn't count.

Some real information.

Transferring programming from a DVR to your Ipod may be doable. Tivo offers a product called tivo stream. Some cable systems offer a way to do it. Easy.

Using something like dropbox as a way to transfer videos and to store videos makes sense.

Programs like dvdshrink haven't been updated in years and won't worth with many recent DVDs. PQDVD has a 2* rating on CNET. According to the CNET reviewers the program hasn't been updated since 2008. It doesn't work on many of the newer movies and is known to crash with older titles. Reviews posted on their site are from 2008.

People posting about these tools can't be using them on current titles or are very lucky.

Many DVDs come with a digital version. That solution is legal. Easy.

There are some "geeks" who like to convert their DVDs so they can store them in a "media server" DVR or PC used for media.

You first need a tool which not only rips your DVD to your hard drive but also remove the protection. There are a couple of programs which are rumored to work. dvdfab is one such program.

You then need to convert the video to the right format. Handbrake is a free, and legal, program which works well.

Conversion speed depends on the speed of your computer. Using a computer which is very old. Could take overnight. A new computer could still take more than an hour.

Converting a DVD to a format compatible with iPad isn't worth the effort for casual use.

 

[Lewisc]

Dear Marionnette

First let me say that I am not a copyright attorney and the odds are that you are not one either. After reading your post quoting me I thought I would do a little research in the matter. The copyright laws are vague. What I said in my post was not illegal. The software that is for sale is not illegal. In fact it has been reviewed on CNET a very reputable website. And last WE did not offer any tips on how to break the law. Because of the Dis Boards Police many good people like myself have filtered to other websites.

Good bye

Where to begin.

Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is the law which makes it illegal to remove copy protection. That law isn't vague. Look it up.

I did look up the tool you linked to. It got a very poor review on CNET. It doesn't work.

You posted wrong information regarding copyright law. You said a commercial program was reviewed on CNET but you didn't say the review was awful. You didn't say the program doesn't work on new titles. Anyone who buys the program is wasting $40. I'll speculate the "powers to be" see no reason to go after a program which doesn't work.

Are you a good person? I have no way of knowing. I'll take your word for it. I'll have to give you a failing grade with regards to posting accurate, helpful information.

Your information is worthless to people who are interested in complying with copyright law and is also worthless to people who have a definition of "fair use" which differs from the law and want to convert their DVDs.