Making your movies, music ready for the future
Today, we can listen to music or watch movies simply by touching a smartphone’s screen or clicking a TV remote.
CDs are gathering dust as people shift to music streaming.
Sales have plummeted with the growing popularity of streaming services that let you rent movies or buy them and build an online library.
If a music CD you own is available for streaming from Amazon or Apple’s iTunes, those services can simply add it to your online library.
[...] Walmart’s Vudu online movie service can do the same thing with many if not most of your Hollywood movies.
Just insert a DVD in your computer, and if it’s available on Vudu, you can have an online copy of it.
With it, you can stream movies and TV shows and use your phone for e-mail and the Internet without dipping into the data allowance in your wireless plan.
Is there a cable that would let me link my iPad to a hotel room TV and watch the game on a bigger screen?
Either an Apple Composite AV cable or Apple Lightning Digital AV Adapter would work, assuming there are empty ports for them on the back of the hotel TV.
Some readers might be asking themselves, why not just take a Roku Stick or Amazon Fire Stick along and plug it into the TV?
Because you won’t be able to authorize the device on the hotel’s network.
The more important issue is whether your hotel offers unlimited free Wi-Fi, with a connection speed fast enough to ensure smooth and continuous HD video on a TV.
What could be worse than watching a play at the plate unfold, only to have the picture cut out with Angel Pagan rounding third base?