Do you have a large collection of movies stored on your computer? Are you tired of choosing which movies to convert and add to your iPad? Are you looking for a better way? Check out Air Video, the best way to stream movies on your iPad.
When buying an iPad, the biggest decisions you’ll be forced to make are whether you’ll need a 16GB, 32GB, or 64GB iPad or if you should opt for a Wi-Fi+3G iPad or just a regular Wi-Fi iPad. When weighing the benefits of buying an iPad with higher storage capacity, video storage will likely play a major role. Video files take up more space than anything else on the iPad and most people that opt for larger iPad hard drives are likely doing so with video in mind.
With Air Video, you can stop relying on your iPad’s internal hard drive and leverage the storage space of your computer(s). Air Video is an iPhone and iPad app that allows users to watch their favorite videos anywhere. With Air Video, you are able to stream your movies to your iPad over a local network or when you’re out an about; freeing up iPad storage space while adding more videos than could possibly fit on your iPad.
Setting up Air Video to stream movies from your computer is a “cinch”. The Air Video app doesn’t require installing and setting up a VNC service and only requires purchasing the Air Video app and installing the Air Video Server on your computer. Once installed, you are able to designate folders on your computers to stream videos to your iPad. Multiple folders and computers can be added as servers in the Air Video app and if you enjoy streaming movies away from home, you’re able to setup a remote server as well.
Air Video supports just about every popular video format (everything I’ve thrown at it so far) and allows users to play their movies with a live conversion or convert movies to add to the iPad’s physical hard drive. While playing with live conversion, the Air Video app converts your movies to stream on the iPad live, in full HD, and without long buffering times. If you decide to convert movies to add to the iPad’s physical hard drive, there’s good news and bad news. The Air Video app is a great – and fast – conversion tool for iPad movies, but converted videos are saved to the original videos folder; making it hard to keep track of converted movies.
Overall, Air Video is a must have iPad app that provides an awesome service and has lots of features (even supporting subtitles) and at only $2.99 the developers of this app are basically giving the app away as a gift to the iPhone and iPad community. If you’re an iPad owner that loves movies, I’d strongly recommend Air Video for the iPad.
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