Cannot sync a family members ipad to my itunes without losing everything?

I have my ipod touch and ipad mini synced with my settings but i am trying to transfer some of my movies to my dads i pad. When i plug his into my computer it says if i sync it will lose all of his settings. Is there any way to do this without losing them?

Sorry to say that there is not.  Each device is associated with an iTunes library that it has already synced with.  This prevents illegal file sharing. 

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