iPad Camera Connection Kit and Movies

THere are now devices available for purchace called i-flashdrives. They are a flashdrive with a lightening jack and depending on the make, a USB on the other. When you use one of these, you use their app to transfer files between the stick and the drive.

I just downloaded a few manufacturer's apps and tried it with my connectivity kit amd no dice. It says "Device not found."

IF would be really cool if someone could design an app to do whis with the CCK. It's apparent that the technology is there. I guess that these apps are tied to their own hardware.

These WiFi style flash drives only transfer data back and forth via WiFi, not using the iDevice's connection port.

But none of these WiFi style drives will work for streaming digital rights protected movies from the drive, itself.

You can store the movies there, but you would still need to transfer them back to your iPad one at a time to view them.

For images and documents, if you store these on a Wifi style portable drive of WiFi USB flash type drive, you can view these images and documents from the drive without importing them directly from the iPad.

The drive manufacturers app will let you view images and docs from the drive, itself, without having to transfer them to the iPad.

Then why are there lightening connectors on them?

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If they are wireless, portable devices, they have rechargeable batteries in them as well as a wired power connection.

The lightning connector is for charging the device's battery from a standard 10 or 12 Volt charger.