iPad won’t play movies from iTunes with VGA adapter

(aka The Movie Studios Still Don’t Get It)

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I’ve been trying to develop a plan at our house for the past few years to simplify our media content and move to an entirely digital media library.

Ultimately, my dream solution would be a one stop storage device on our network that contains all our photos, music and video and is accessible on either TV in our house as well as on our mobile devices (laptops, tablets, phones etc.)

When Laurie and I first married we had over 100 DVDs and easily twice that many CDs.

We’ve since whittled that down to 30 or so DVDs and fewer CDs – selling most of them to a resell shop.

Along the way we’ve also moved away from buying more physical media content and renting any movies we want to see and buying digital music from iTunes and Amazon. It just doesn’t make sense anymore to keep buying movies we only watch a few times when it’s just as easy to rent the movies for a couple bucks a pop.
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Flip UltraHD review

For those of you who follow me on Twitter, you may know I purchased a new Flip UltraHD recently from Amazon.

I’m pretty excited about it.

I’ve had an original Flip camcorder since shortly after they came out — back when it was known as the Pure Digital Flip (before Cisco bought Pure Digital). I’ve shot numerous videos with it and loved it’s ease of use, size and simplicity.
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