Best sites for downloading tv/films for iPad?

[Pickle]

Santa was kind and delivered an iPad this year. I'm preparing for a hospital stay and would like to have some tv/movies downloaded to watch just in case the wifi at Kings is unreliable.

Being a bit of an Apple novice, I'm not sure whether there are options other than iTunes available to me? Any suggestions would be welcomed.

Thanks

[Applespider]

To actually buy and download them, I think it's just iTunes. The various TV catchups are all streaming only.

If I'm going for a flight or somewhere without wifi, I tend to just rip a DVD or boxset and load them on. I use Handbrake, a free Mac app, to get them to the right format and then load them onto the iPad.

A few good books might be worth loading on too - and perhaps some silly games to waste time like Mahjong/Solitaire etc

Hope that you're not in for too long and that you get well soon.

[sykesmitch]

Download an app called AV Player, enabling you to playback most video file types- apple restricts this to only one or two through their video apps. Once you have this you will be able to put pretty much any type of video format directly on to the app which means you can put download films not only from the itunes site, which gets expensive if you are looking to get a good few. Utorrent filesharing software, which you can download by typing it into google allows you to download films and programmes for free, as someone who is absolutely against illegal downloading I would never do this but it might work for you.

All the best.