Apple iPad, Day 20: Music, Movies, and Books (Oh My!) With the
iPad   For watching TV shows on the iPad, I have three choices:
Netflix, HBO, and ABC. As you might guess, the ABC app only
gives me access to ABC shows--there are a lot of them, though.
The app gives you access to full episodes of most, if not all,
currently or recently running shows, and also lets you view the
schedule for what's coming up on ABC in the next week.  Netflix
is a great source of streaming movies and TV for the iPad. As
you might expect, the HBO GO app also only provides access to
HBO content. There are a lot of good HBO series, though, like
Entourage, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Game of Thrones, and it is
nice to be able to stream them to the iPad from virtually
anywhere--even sharing a 3G connection using my iPhone 4 as a
Wi-Fi hotspot.  Netflix gives me access to a wide variety of TV
shows, but it tends to be more of an archive of older seasons,
and shows that are no longer on the air. For example, on Netflix
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