I want to take my ipad to hospital, but its only a 16gb can i use an airport to watch more itunes content?

Ive gota 16gb ipad 3 with wifi and cell, but I cant justify data at $10 a gig for watching tv and movies while im in VA hospital. Can I use an airport with a drive attached to store more of my movies or am I relegated to using a laptop and syncing every few hours...
I thought NAS might be an answer but my browsing suggests that Its not simple. I just want to watch want I own on iTunes already. the hospital has a 50mb a day wifi you can pay for but that's no where near enough for any video etc
on previous visits I've taken a small tv and my apple tv and streamed from the laptop but that's a lot of stuff to take and the hospital doesn't like you using too many electronic devices at once. I thought maybe the ipad could stream stored stuff from an airport if its iTunes? but I don't want to spend $400 to buy a 3tb airport if it wont work

No, it won't work.. the Airports are not media devices.. they have no brains .. no media extensions.. and itunes must be running on a computer.
You can however watch movies from storage but not with itunes..
See how people use tools like VLC to get around Apple's built in iTunes limitations.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ios.html
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/vlc-streamer/id410031728?mt=8

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