[geeks] tablets?

[Jonathan J. M. Katz]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 6:13 PM,  <gsm at mendelson.com> wrote:
> I am about to come into enough money (back money from disability) to buy
[ Geoffrey wants a handheld video device ]

I love my iPad2, but I got it BECAUSE of the GPS. It also has other
neat features that let me play a scrabble-alike game against mrbill.

However, one thing you can do is setup a home media server that does
uPnP. I have one (just a Linux box with a bunch of disks) that runs
MediaTomb uPnP server. It also runs Samba and NFS and I can copy
anything to/from it that I need to. It's our repository of digital
photos, MP3s, etc. There are then uPnP players/browsers available from
the Apple App Store (as well as the Android Shoppe if you go that
route) which can play what's on the server on your iPad & iPhone. The
uPnP server streams the content for you, so it can play whatever you
throw at it.

Since you're not leaving the house (much) this may make sense, as you
don't need all your videos to be local to the device, just local to
your network.

-Jon