I would assume they are DRM protected. They are movies that are downloaded from the ITunes store.
But this was a little test I just did. I put a movie on my external drive and then opened up ITUNES on my PC. Then from Itunes I went to
FILE-----> ADD FILES TO LIBRARY and browsed to my external 'F' drive and selected the movie. ITUNES loaded it and when I doubleclicked it, it played from the external "F" drive. This is essentially the same theory I'm wanting to test in an IPAD now.
Would someone be willing to test this and tell me if it works? Put a movie on your PC that isn't already in your ITUNES on your IPAD. Now plug your IPAD into your PC and in ITUNES on the IPAD go to FILE----->ADD FILES TO LIBRARY and select the movie on your PC. I would think this would work the same way it just worked on my PC. You should be able to now doubleclick on the movie from your IPAD Itunes and the movie should play from the PC!
Someone tell me this works??
Of course now I just realized something else. I need to send the output of the IPAD to a tv screen (actually several tv screens). I see the IPAD has a VGA adapter but many people are reporting that it won't let you send movies, even those downloaded through Itunes, to your tv through the VGA! Well what the hell is the point of it then?? Are there any touch screen TABLETS out there that will output to multiple monitors?
Thanks!!
Dan