PC World has opened a digital locker that streams your movies, music and photos straight to your Apple iPad. iPad Media Streaming gives your iPad 100GB of extra storage accessed via the Web, on top of the 16GB or 32GB built-in to Apple's tablet.
Back up your computer's files to the 100GB storage and it can be accessed from your Apple tablet via 3G or Wi-Fi. Music and media not stored in iTunes is included. You can also upload photos to Facebook and Flickr.
iPad Media Streaming is basically a cloud-based storage service optimised for iPad. Cloud storage for media, sometimes called 'digital lockers', are becoming more popular. Dropbox is an online service, Sony has the uncharacteristically cleverly-named Personal Space, Toshiba has Toshiba places, there's even a Tesco Digital Locker service planned.
iPad Media Streaming costs £40 per year, and also includes technical support from PC World's TechGuys. The software can be bought from PC World, with the free TechGuys Media Stream app required from the iTunes Store.
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anonymous 7 September, 2010 19:54
Meh, my netbook can store 100GB+ of media locally. No need for a digital locker service, and it's still cheaper than an iPad.
Anonymous 8 September, 2010 07:30
Netbooks are crap. Consumers are chucking them in the trash to buy iPads.
FunkMaster 8 September, 2010 08:04
It's a really nice concept and the idea of online storage as been around for ages ... but honestly, 100GB ... come on .. bump that up to like 500GB or a Terabyte ... and then we are talking.
My photo gallery alone is like 200GB ...
And these days, with the data plans for internet access over 3G being ridiculous ... I'll give this one a skip thanks!
anonymous 8 September, 2010 08:22
Hi,
I need some info from you please. I brought a printer of you over a year ago and the ink pad is full are you able to replace it as the printer wont work with out it being replaced its a RX585 and these are not being made any more you must have some record of the purchase in your fills in Chelmsford store. This machine has worked well up till now hope you can help me Regards Robert Roughton DBS Epson RX585 Stylus CD/DVD printer
8/9/2010
Charles Kloet 8 September, 2010 12:32
Hi Robert,
Just to clarify, this site isn't linked to PC World. You'll need to contact PC World directly.
anonymous 10 September, 2010 09:51
why does this strike me as something tied with the networks too with the 3G access....I mean 100GB over 3G? ahaha that would be a fortune! would be cheaper to buy a cheap laptop after you factor the £40 cost a year for the service AND the data allowance..