Is the Video player in ios 5 for the iPhone the same as the one for iPad? (No continuos play)

Question

I can't believe Apple did this.  With all the cool, well thought out software they produce I just can't understand why it takes 2 taps to get a video going, let alone play continuosly through a play list of videos (as videos, not audio only).  I am assuming that it's the same as iPad 2's setup.  I haven't updated my 3gs for this reason.  I do a lot of intertaining where I will frequently plug my phone into the big screen and play a bunch of videos unattended.  Very dissappointed that the iPad won't do this and see that IOS 5 for iPhone has a seperate app for videos now so I'm assuming its the same.  Anybody know of a third party app that will play my music videos continuosly from a playlist?  Developers?

Answer 1

So much for luck.  I would have been luckier not automagically upgrading to iOS5 on my iPad2 without knowing what functionality would be lost.  I can't believe video playlist organization functionality is gone with this upgrade.
I tried both of the above mentioned fixes and neither of them works as the iPod playlist does.  Apple has not provided these third party rights with the ability to sync with your playlist so if your like me and have hundreds of clips, so much for organizing your videos the way you want and could before.  And why should I have to spend hours manually loading files?  I bought the iPad knowing it had video playlist functionality.  If Apple had stated prior to upgrading from iOS4 to iOS5 that I would loose the video playlist features I would not have upgraded.  I was thinking of also purchasing an iPhone but no way now that this critical function is not there.  Think about it, my one inch nano screen and 2 inch iPod Classic have the video playlist ability, but the iPad which is meant one would think more for the video experience than the smaller devices has the playlist functionality removed. 
I was a recent convert over to Apple, also purchased an iMac last month, but my recent erroneous upgrade to iOS5 has left a bad feeling with Apple.  I mean really, you can't go back to iOS4?  What is the support you pay for Apple if you can't go back to the original software.  Such a large sophisticated company and they can't make there customers happy by just bringing them back to the version they purchased?  There is no IT company in the world that can not go back to a previous version of software but apparently you can't with Apple? 
Doesn't Apple think we should be able to test the new software prior to accepting it?  isn't that only fair?  The way there running this your blindly being led to something you don't really know what your getting.  Atleast when you purchase the product you can go in and see it, etc.
Really, really disappointed.