Is there a way to store ITunes movies on an external wireless hard drive and access them from my IPAD.

I am on deployment with VERY limited internet access. I have gone through all the movies on my IPad and would like to have access to the rest of my movies at home. Is there a way for my wife to load ITunes movies off my Mac at home to an external hard drive, send me it to me and then I can view them from my IPad? How do I set up the IPad to look for the movies on the drive?

No. An iPad does not have the capability to read data from an external HDD. You need a computer running iTunes to sync the movies to the iPad.

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