Hardware Reference
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Chapter 8
iPad mini Video: Seeing Is Believing
In This Chapter
Finding and playing videos
Restricting movies
Capturing, editing, and deleting video on your iPad mini
Facing up to FaceTime
Picture this scene: The smell of popcorn permeates the room as you and your family congregate to
watch the latest Hollywood blockbuster. A motion picture soundtrack swells up. The images on the
screen are stunning. And all eyes are fixed on the iPad mini.
Okay, here comes the reality check. The iPad mini is not going to replace a wall-sized high-definition
television as the centerpiece of your home theater (though as you discover, you can watch material
that originates on the iPad mini on the bigger screen). Then again, it's worth pointing out that the gor-
geous Retina display on the latest iPad mini has a higher-resolution screen than even the high-defini-
tion television in your living room — and is just about the finest-looking display we've ever seen on
such a smallish handheld device. But you shouldn't have an inferiority complex if you have one of the
original 7.9-inch minis. Those screens look terrific, too, even when you're not viewing them head-on.
Bottom line: No matter which iPad mini you own, watching movies and other videos on Apple's
prized tablet is a cinematic treat. What's more, you have front and rear cameras that can help turn you,
under certain circumstances, into a filmmaker — right from the device.
And video on the iPad mini ventures into another area: video chat. You can keep in touch with friends
and loved ones by gazing into each other's pupils. It's all done through a version of
FaceTime,
a clev-
er video-chat program that comes with your iPad mini. In the interest of equal time, we'd also like to
point out that you can do video chats on your iPad mini by downloading a popular third-party app
such as Skype — and do clever group chats via another app called Spin from Net Power & Light.
We get to FaceTime later in this chapter. For now, and without any further ado, we get on with the
show!
