Movies on a Tablet

The Tab 2.0 7 has a SD card slot so the cheapest way would be to copy some digital movies onto an SD card and play them from there.

There's also wireless thumbdrives like this: Sandisk 32GB Wireless Flashdrive

If you want something with more storage space there are wireless hard drives like this: Seagate Wireless HDD

TomG2 wrote:
I have a Samsung Tab 2.0 7 Android tablet and would like to use it to watch movies. What is the best (cheapest) way to do this? I have slow Wi-Fi in this RV park for Internet access. I want to store them for watching later.

I use Handbrake to convert my DVD's to MP4's. I can watch on my Samsung Galaxy Note, on my iPhone and even on my TV when put on a memory stick and plugged into the Blue-Ray player.

On my tablet I have a 32Gb micro-sd card with about 20 or so movies on at any given time.

X 2 on Handbrake. I rip DVD's all the time for storage on the SD Card on my Android and Windows Tablets.

Ok, I will give Handbrake a try. The only other question then is how it deals with copy protection on prerecorded movies. Or, is there a digital movie store where I can download them before transferring them to a SD card?

You can buy movies from Google Play and there is an option to download them to your device. I'm not sure however, if you can specify to download them to the SD card.

TomG2 wrote:
Ok, I will give Handbrake a try. The only other question then is how it deals with copy protection on prerecorded movies. Or, is there a digital movie store where I can download them before transferring them to a SD card?

You have hit a dead end asking that question here.
It can be done but you will not get answers in this forum.

I use this program to rip DVDs: DVD Catalyst

The author is very good at offering help when issues are encountered.

Not interested in illegal copying. Not that I am that moral or rich, just lazy. I will check into digital movie downloads from Google.

The issue of whether it's legal to rip personally owned DVD movies is mired in more shades of grey than the novel.

Handbrake, an open source media conversion utility, apparently does not violate the DMCA as it's not able to circumvent CSS copy protection by default. The end user needs to manually install a separate .dll file to do so.

However, DVD Catalyst is apparently based on the open source Mencoder/MPlayer which utilizes the libdvdcss.dll library to decrypt DVDs allowing it to be ripped. It also appears that the open source libdvdcss.dll, which uses a list of player keys or brute force methods for authentication, has not been legally challenged, as it's commonly used in free media players. This in contrast to conversion utilities that use DeCSS, which uses a cracked player key, and technically illegal to manufacture or distribute.

However, may be a moot point as the DMCA considers it illegal to circumvent copy protection for purposes of copying content except for a few exempted purposes.

Adding to the confusion, the U.S. Copyright Office refused to exempt space shifting, converting copyrighted digital content to a different format, effectively making it illegal.

Some AV software, such as Bitdefender, auto blocks the current version of DVD Catalyst from running, without it being manually unblocked.

NOTE: Please do not link to any ripping utility that includes the ability to circumvent Digital Rights Management(DRM) as forum Terms of Service(TOS) do not permit: "(iii) submit material that is unlawful....or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, violate any law, or is otherwise inappropriate;".