Can I preload videos to a new ipad for a corporate client?

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Can I preload videos to a new ipad for a corporate client?

Hello Everyone,

I have a corporate client who is looking at distributing about 300 units to their clients and want a marketing video preloaded. The marketing video would be a corporate promotional video they want to give to priority clients.

We have had requests on this in the past, but it seems that ipods/ipads need to be connected to itunes before they are used, and a connection to itunes would personalize the ipad. So it would seem that we would have an issue in putting a video on an ipad and then duplicating that setup.

Could we create a master backup and apply/restore each unit with the video before they go out?

Do you have any ideas?

Frank

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.4), 2.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo/ 2 GB 667MhHz DDR2 SDRAM

Posted on May 6, 2011 11:21 AM

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MyApple8MyPC

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May 6, 2011 11:27 AM in response to FrankMediaSupply

FrankMediaSupply wrote:

Could we create a master backup and apply/restore each unit with the video before they go out?

It will check to verify the serial number, so I doubt it's possible. If you are planning on buying 300 iPads and inserting this companies video, then I would contact Apple directly, they may be able to do this for you once you send them the video.

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May 9, 2011 7:42 AM in response to MyApple8MyPC

Thank for the response.

In the past I've checked into this on iPod Nanos and was given the recommendation to load the movie to the drive portion of the iPod (Enable disc mode). Is that a function that is available on iPad?

With repsect to your response on contacting Apple, we haven't really gotten anywhere with them directly, as our 300 pcs. doesn't amount to much with them in the big picture. I'll give it a shot though and see if their response has changed.

Thanks again!

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