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How can I stream movies that are on an Airport Time Capsule on my iPad 1?
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<blockquote data-quote="magentawave" data-source="post: 1561529" data-attributes="member: 236694"><p>The Airport Extreme is like the Airport Time Capsule minus the built in hard drive, right? If so, how come the Airport Extreme is tall like the Time Capsule and not short like the Airport Express? </p><p></p><p>I was thinking that I want watching a movie on my iPad to be as easy as watching a movie on my iPad with Netflix which means I'd rather access a few hundred movies on a big hard drive directly than to have to constantly be loading them on to an SD card.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0098Z2C9A/?tag=macforums0e4-20" target="_blank">Apotop Wi-Reader</a> looks interesting and $54 is reasonable. Did you get the $53 model or the $80 one?</p><p></p><p>I was considering the Seagate wifi hard drive before I found out about the Airport Time Capsule. I've seen a couple new Airport Time Capsules on Craigslist for about the same cost as the Seagate wifi drive but with twice the TB.</p><p></p><p>I'm still figuring this out but I think the reason for needing a router (and the Apotop Wi-Reader is a router too) is that I will probably have an <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004I5J2XY/?tag=macforums0e4-20" target="_blank">omni directional wifi antenna</a> on the top or a small <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003LLS5JI/?tag=macforums0e4-20" target="_blank">Yagi directional wifi antenna</a> (to pickup free internet) that will be connected to a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004MDQQ04/?tag=macforums0e4-20" target="_blank">signal booster</a>, and if I remember correctly, I think the router needs to be connected to the booster??</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>No I haven't figured out how to transfer the movies from a DVR to my hard drive yet because I've been too busy lately with the rebuild of my RV but Direct TV said its doable. A friend of mine just told me that he has a hard drive with 200 to 300 movies on it so I'm going to check that out this week. Normally I would need MP4's for the iPad, right? But since I'm not going to download them on to the iPad, or play them from iTunes, maybe it won't matter what format they are in? There are a couple highly rated iPad apps that enable you to play many different video formats on an iPad.</p><p></p><p>Regarding how many movies I'm going to take with me... well, since I'm heading to the tip of South America, I was hoping to take at least a few hundred movies.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="magentawave, post: 1561529, member: 236694"] The Airport Extreme is like the Airport Time Capsule minus the built in hard drive, right? If so, how come the Airport Extreme is tall like the Time Capsule and not short like the Airport Express? I was thinking that I want watching a movie on my iPad to be as easy as watching a movie on my iPad with Netflix which means I'd rather access a few hundred movies on a big hard drive directly than to have to constantly be loading them on to an SD card. The [URL="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0098Z2C9A/?tag=macforums0e4-20"]Apotop Wi-Reader[/URL] looks interesting and $54 is reasonable. Did you get the $53 model or the $80 one? I was considering the Seagate wifi hard drive before I found out about the Airport Time Capsule. I've seen a couple new Airport Time Capsules on Craigslist for about the same cost as the Seagate wifi drive but with twice the TB. I'm still figuring this out but I think the reason for needing a router (and the Apotop Wi-Reader is a router too) is that I will probably have an [URL="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004I5J2XY/?tag=macforums0e4-20"]omni directional wifi antenna[/URL] on the top or a small [URL="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003LLS5JI/?tag=macforums0e4-20"]Yagi directional wifi antenna[/URL] (to pickup free internet) that will be connected to a [URL="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004MDQQ04/?tag=macforums0e4-20"]signal booster[/URL], and if I remember correctly, I think the router needs to be connected to the booster?? No I haven't figured out how to transfer the movies from a DVR to my hard drive yet because I've been too busy lately with the rebuild of my RV but Direct TV said its doable. A friend of mine just told me that he has a hard drive with 200 to 300 movies on it so I'm going to check that out this week. Normally I would need MP4's for the iPad, right? But since I'm not going to download them on to the iPad, or play them from iTunes, maybe it won't matter what format they are in? There are a couple highly rated iPad apps that enable you to play many different video formats on an iPad. Regarding how many movies I'm going to take with me... well, since I'm heading to the tip of South America, I was hoping to take at least a few hundred movies. [/QUOTE]
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