I am a big fan of the Seagate Satellite drives which allow you store up to 500 GBs of video, music, etc rather than limiting yourself to a maximum of 64 GBs on the iPad or paying for a separate data connection to stream from iCloud. I won't be getting anything but a wifi only iPad. I was curious how well the Digital AV adapters worked, especially reading so many bad reviews with the iPad 1st gens. (Of course those complaints may have simply been due to operator error.) So I powered up my Satellite Drive, plugged in the adaptor to my iPad and iPhone5 and then connected both to separate LED TVs via HDMI cable. The home screens for both came up on the TVs, started streaming a different movie on each device (you can stream 3 separate movies to 3 separate devices at once). The video and audio both played on the TVs without a hitch, the video but NO audio played on each Apple device at the same time. So if you want to bring movies with you while visiting friends and family but don't want to fill up your iPad or waste CDs and DVD's copying movies and music from you iTunes collection, or your kids want to bring some music and movies while staying over at their friends home, you can pretty much take your entire collection with you. Then I started running through some of the TV apps. (Without using the external drive of course) Most will output to the TV via this setup. HBO Go is waiting for an update that will allow this. Many of the game apps and productivity apps work with this setup. So if you want to browse the web or read your email or allow others to watch you playing a game or watch them if taking turns etc, have fun. And if you have an HD projector, Movie night for the family bigger than any TV in your home. Sitting back and reading my kindle and iBook collection on the big screen with larger text than you would see on the iPad was great. This setup would work good for business or school presentations as well. I have recoded most of my iTunes collection. To me movies over a gig in size are a waste of drive space. I get them all down to about 200 to 500 MBs each. Now if they would simply start making 3 TB and larger satellite drives. Of course I can stream my movies to my iPhone and all my Android phones via my unlimited data plan and my Network connected external hard drive. But that works best on 4g or better or wifi connections(best) and I can use the Digital connector to output to the TV. Now the adaptor pricing is a bit outrageous. Lightning Digital AV Adapter 49.00 and 30-pin Digital AV Adapter 39.00 (Both cheaper if bought from BestBuy.)
