1. You tube videos.
2.
Watching TV shows and Movies in bed or lying down.
3. Browsing, Mails etc
4. Would love some Doc/Spreadsheet viewing Editing capability
5. Comic books. cbr, cbz formats and such
6. PDF's. Large PDF magazines, comics with lots of pic and all.
Notes:
1. I plan to use this device with
Corsair Voyager Air or Kingston MobileLite. So the space available in tab
is not that big of a deal for me. i think.
2. I am a huge fan of using devices like in a continuation. Like My desktop in personal laptop and HTPC looks the same. and will MOSTLY contain the same things.
Thats why i spend so much on external stand alone storage.
I was curious about this Corsair Voyager thingy and decided to look it up. It's a N150 device that means it tops out somewhere around 30Mbs. Now, i hope your TV shows and movies top out out at an avg bitrate of 5Mbs because anything larger is going to be iffy as you need a margin of anywhere from 3-6 times that rate to get most movies to play well. I said well, higher bitrates will play but might stutter in parts as opposed to playing flawlessly which is what one wants.
To give an idea of what is meant by HD, check out this
review.
Performance is pretty good for both portable hard drives, as streaming high quality videos works perfectly. I was able to connect three computers to both hard drives (I didn’t have access to any more), and streaming at the same time was not an issue on all three computers. I also tried to get some data transfer rates by reading and writing “Big Buck Bunny†to/from both hard drives. The movie file was 725.1 MB in H.264 quality at 1080p resolution. It took the Voyager Air 2 minutes and 53 seconds (4.2 MB/sec) to write the file and 3 minutes and 22 seconds (3.6 MB/sec) to read it.
A full HD movie that is a short of 10 mins duration and 730MB or > 5- 10Mbs bitrate is cutting it close. The reviewer gets a write to the CVA of 32Mbs but can only read from it at 28Mbs. Thats a margin of just 3 times the avg rate. A longer duration movie might not fit here. That is why i said a headroom of 3-6 times the avg bitrate is better.
This device costs $200 at Amazon. That's right $200. That means anywhere from Rs.12-15k over here.
How much does an Asus N13 wifi router+external USB HDD cost ? much less.
Is the N13 a N150 device ? No, its a N300 so it can transmit close to twice this rate. All you need is a N300 client to make use of it. Nexus 10 and certain windows tabs or a 5Ghz router with note8/10. There is anything else i'm aware of for now. Heard rumours that the NookHD is also N300 but not confirmed.
On top of that this CVA will not even let you access xvids or mkvs. Hope all your files are mp4, that means you need to replace mkv containers with mp4. Not impossbile but a hassle. There is no DLNA but thats in the works apparently so hooking this thing up via ethernet to your HDTV is likely not to do much.
This CVA is NOT worth the money. Wait for the next models which will have sensible wifi like N300.
oh, unless you need mobile playback for ~5 hours. How many need that at home ? CVA is a device for work sharing with a number of people that are out in the field.
Next is the Kingston mobile lite, useful device for tabs that do not have sd card slots plus a battery bank. But this is again yet another N150 device, fine for everything else but big video files. Unnecessary if you have a tab that already has a microsd slot.
The only outstanding point is number 6. How big are your pdf files (file size and papersize) and how complicated are your magazines with lots of pics, i can try it out on my note 10.1 and let you know. A windows tab might have an edge here over an android device because of processing power. But its double the price.
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You might want to factor in that the Nexus 10's front-facing speakers might be better for movie-watching than other tablets.
Any tab with front facing speakers is preferable.