airvideo is great for streaming and you're sitting around the house and want to grab a quick flick. it's not so good when you're flying at 25,000 feet or on the road with kids in the backseat watching cartoons off your ipad. conversion speed is also affected by quality. you can convert at iphone/ipad native resolution and headphone stereo sound and it will be pretty quick, the high quality preset i use keeps 5.1 and hd resolution so i can play the same file back on my 62" projection system or on my iphone or ipad. i got sick of converting once for each platform and having multiple copies of a movie. recently picked up a drobo fs (great little system), stocked it with 2g drives and using it for my media storage center now. i can mount it on my macs, my pc's, my linux boxes, etc. itunes works just fine with mounted storage.
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