My TouchPad Today: Video Flood HD - A Utility Infielder?

Video Flood HD kinda reminds me of the utility infielder a baseball team will carry on its roster... Able to play multiple positions and fill a hole in a pinch, but not an everyday player. A utility player needed in the daily lineup for more than the short term, usually has his weaknesses and limitations exposed quickly.

Nevertheless, I love utility players. They're a valuable and important part of the game.

After several days of use, yes, I see Video Flood as a classic utility player. It certainly fills a hole in my roster of TouchPad tablet apps, but isn't strong enough to play every day, meaning it won't replace or unseat my other sources for the same types of video content.

It can play video clips from categories like News, Entertainment and Technology... But it largely replicates what I can access on my Roku HD box or Windows 7 Media Center on my laptop.

When it comes to TV shows and movies, its the same story. There isn't enough "there" to make it an every day player.

Obviously, its biggest virtue is that it is a tablet app... That's what gets it on my roster and will keep it on my roster until that better player come along.

(Note: I have not yet tried the podcast and YouTube features of Video Flood.)

Batter up?



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My TouchPad Today: Exploring Some Apps

Over the last few days I've been busy with some things -- gasp -- not related to the HP TouchPad! Nevertheless I have snuck in a little app exploration...

My TouchPad

• WiFi Media Synch - Now, a select set of files on my laptop are wirelessly synched to both my Pre2 and TP.
• Video Flood - A lot of the content duplicates what is already available to me via my Windows 7 laptop and my Roku HD box... wirelessly! Video quality I've seen thus far is excellent.
• PDFMyWebPro - Not a perfect app, but will be handy for me... when it works. (I've been using the full version of Adobe Acrobat on desktops and laptops for 10+ years.) This app fills an important gap in the tablet computing experience for me.
• Gemini File Manager "Remote"- Don't know how much use this will get in my every day computing. I'm more likely to use box.net, et al, to access copies of files on my TP.

My Wife's TouchPad

I've now added a few more files to my wife's TP, in anticipation of the day when she actually starts to use it...

• HP Play (downloaded to laptop and then used it to synch her music to her TP)
• Video Flood 
• Audiophile HD

Now, off to more exploration and -- gasp -- things not related to the TouchPad!



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