Watching movies in the car

Did do a search before but haven't found an answer yet.
I have bought a nice and easy headrest mount for the iPad and would like to use the iPad for the kids to watch movies in the back.
Now the 32GB capacity all of a sudden is not a lot...
So I was thinking if there would be a possibility to store some movies somewhere and still watch them on the iPad.
An idea that came to mind was to have a 12V converter in the car and connect an Airport Express to it and connect a usb drive/stick to it with the movies on it. And watch the videos like that.
No with a bit of searching I found that (at least as far as I found out) the Airport Express is not suitable however the Airport Extreme I have found that it could work (as I haven't found news that it wasn't possible).
The other thing is the app to watch the movies. The App that comes with the iPad only allows movies from the hard drive of the iPad (which was synced with the movies in iTunes)
** (A bit Off topic; but in Belgium there are no movies that you can buy with iTunes (just audiobooks), and a very limited amount of books via iBooks....**
And if I do get it to work do the movies have to be in a special format so that the iPad can show them of the "external" hard drive?
So short my idea;
1- 12V - 220V converter
2- Airport (a version)
3- USB hard drive/USB stick connected to the Airport
4- Have an App get the movie from the external source over WI-FI

The Photos app can obtain movies of certain types through the Camera Connection Kit. So you could put your movie (in a supported format) onto your thumb drive in the \DCIM directory, or do the same with an SD card. Then you could Import the movie and play from your Photos app.
I've done both of these things and gotten beautiful fullscreen video. Plus the Camera Connection Kit requires no extra batteries and is relatively inexpensive.
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The upside is that SD cards are pretty cheap, and you don't have to buy high-spec expensive cards to do this. And you might be able to throw some movies onto chips you were going to use for photography anyway (the iPad will offer to delete the movies after import if you like), making your cost very low.

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