Using an iPad - was krankshaft format solution found

[John Rennie]

The 7" tablets are too small really. You need a 10" screen like the
iPad or the Archos 101 for reading PDFs to be a pleasant experience.
Be warned that the experience of several friends suggests that wives
love iPads and will quick monopolise it. Most of my friends have had
to buy a second iPad for their own use. Friends with a teenage
daughter have had to buy a third!

Re XBMC: WMV is a closed format developed by Microsoft, and the open
source community has had to reverse engineer it. If you want to use
an open source media player WMV is best avoided. Conversely, if you
have to play WMVs the best option is to use Windows Media Player.

>BTW, how can an iPad help with XMBC?

You can run XBMC on an iPad (not on the iPad 2 yet) if you jailbreak
it. However most of us would just use the XBMC remote control applet
to control an HTPC running XBMC. The XBMC remote control applet is
available for both iPad and Android. XBMC itself has not been ported
to Android yet.

JR

-----Original Message-----
From: BOC/Hawkwind Discussion List [mailto:BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET] On Behalf Of Jonathan Smith
Sent: 10 April 2011 13:55
To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
Subject: Re: Using an iPad - was krankshaft format solution found

Thanks for taking the time to enlighten me! You make it sound like a gadget
I must have. I am very interested in something that enables me to read PDFs
and get online quickly. ther are other options for tablets which I haven't
looked at like one produced by Asus. I resisted buying an Archos at the time
because I didn't have faith in its realiblity and the screen was too small.
The PMP seems to have died to to be reborn as the tablet.

I have been looking at XMBC. I have tried it on Windows 7 PC. Its a good as
a media centre (less clumsy than Micosoft's!), especially for large music
collections. It seems fairly easy to configure but i am finding some minor
problems with some video file types, like WMV, but as i didn't record them I
don't know if the problem lies with a bad recording. I'll try in on a Mac
soon.

BTW, how can an iPad help with XMBC?