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So i brought a Lenovo ipad K1 32g, basicly for traveling, im planing on flying around abit next year mainly for work and i got a big holiday coming up.

Anyway my girls old works for lenovo and got me this tablet really cheap. Thats the main reason i got this over a ipad.

So my hole idea was that i could sit in a airport on wifi amd download a new movie or a new albem fron the andriod market and watch or listen to it on the plane. My problem is........ i cant, the andriod market only works for movies and mUsic in the US, and thats the same for all for the apps, so far all i can do on it is check my emails and surf the web.... which to me is really pointless as i can do this on my iphone.

Now my question is, what are you guys using to put,download,rent,streem movies and music to your andriod devices?

Yeap, ive got a gmail account. Theres no app for downloading movies in australia, heaps in the US. Yea i could download them at home and put them on. But was kinda keen on being abke to sit in the airport,pick a movie, download it and watch.

Any of you guys have a tablet or a andriod device that u download movies on?

have you taken into account the amount of data you would use downloading movies? now assuming you are talking about downloading them using free wifi in the airport, i'm not whether they have both a time and data limit on the wifi so you can't just sit there and download massive amounts of data. i know the free wifi at places like maccas have that, so should be able to find a video streaming app you may not be able to download the whole thing via free wifi.

I agree with mad082. You are much better off dling the stuff at home and transferring rather than relying on free internet at airports. In addition to mad082s points free internet places often lock out torrent sites (some maccas do anyway) plus they are often really slow - downloading a whole movie at 2.5kbs would probably take longer than walking/swimming to anywhere on the planet, exaggeration but you get the point. :)

and free internet places often have the network down, (from my experience about 50% although it has been over a year since I have used them) I imagine it isnt a high priority to have them running 24/7 as long as they can advertise having free internet access.

Sorry about the double post but the website issues havent been fixed so I cant edit.

Why not use a remote service where you could stream from home to your tablet?

and i think you will find that the free wifi at airports will be limited to how much can be used with your device (mac adress gets logged)

As stated before load them up from home then watch them.

Grab a 32gb sd card load it up with movies that tablet runs tegra 2 so you can watch 1080p content perfectly, but for the sake of saving room i would just stock up on dvd rips.

Now android isn't limited to what formats it can play unlike other mobile os's just grab a app called rockplayer or mx player and watch them through that.

so you saying id be better off, buying them at home, downloading them to a sd and watching them on the go. Or better off downloading torrents at home and doing it that way?

Depends on your situation. Ripping your own DVDs will give you the quality/filesize ratio you choose and you can be sure rips will play on your device once it is set up and tested. But it does take a fair bit of setting up. It also depends on what internet plan you are on at home.

Personally I would prefer buying the DVDs at home and then just dling the torrents from the net. Piece of mind of having paid for originals and none of the hassles of ripping them.

By the way, before buying a 32GB SD card check the prices as shops in Japan have the 16GB SDcards at a better yen/GB than 32GB. Therefore it is cheaper to buy 2x16GB SD cards than one 32GB. However I know of at least one shop in Australia that is selling the 32GB SD cards for less than double the price of 16GBs.

would also be worth doing a few tests to see how long the battery lasts playing movies. i'm guessing that it will be dramatically shorter than just browsing the net. you should easily get a movie out of it, but i think 2 full movies might be pushing it. not an issue if you can charge it when you get to where you are going.

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