Movies for Google Nexus 7

**cherryblossomflower** · 01-31-2013, 09:15 PM

Hi Im new here -- I was wondering where you can get digital movies/app so afterwards you can view w/out WIFI; and I had similar question is 16 GB vs 32 GB if you are going to have several movies stored... would take up alot of space -- How do books fair as far as space accumulation?
Thanks!
Wanted Tablet for my son (3) and I -- mainly apps, alittle music, and some books, and a few movies -- should 16 GB be enough?

**MJKearney** · 01-31-2013, 09:31 PM

You have lots of options, but the easiest might be to buy or rent movies from Google Play. The Play Movies app lets you "pin" The movie, meaning download it to your N7 for offline viewing. You then have to use that same app to view the movie, as other video players won't work.

**mathelm** · 01-31-2013, 09:34 PM

Movies will eat up memory like a fat man at an all you can eat buffet.....

Size of movie/TV/Video depends on their quality. A program like (for your PC) will let you convert and adjust the quality as much as you like, in the form of frames per second and kps (kilobytes per second). A long with what type of file it is (mp4, flv, etc..) ...

A decent quality 90 to 120 minute movie in mp4 or flv format will be anywhere from 250 to 700 meg, (more or less) and can be a lot bigger......

**mr_nobody** · 02-01-2013, 07:02 AM

Originally Posted by cherryblossomflower

How do books fair as far as space accumulation?

Books generally do not take up much space...unless they are heavily illustrated, etc.

**Zapflashgone** · 02-01-2013, 07:09 AM

Movies converted to a format that is quite acceptable on the Nexus7 typically take up less than a gig of storage. After watching, Delete... no storage problemo!
Books are no problem whatsoever.

**bigtroutz** · 02-01-2013, 03:21 PM

you can always play movies from a memory stick using Nexus Media Importer (unrooted - read only) or stickmount (rooted - full access) that effectively gives you quite inexpensive unlimited storage.

Here is a little table to give you an idea of rough relative storage size
type ----- ave size per ---- # per GB
books ---- 1MB ------------ 1,000
music ---- 3 MB ------------ 333
movies -- 700 MB --------- 1.4

ALL of the average size per file are dependent on how high the quality of the media is. FLAC music files are roughly 10 times larger than mp3 for instance, and an uncompressed blueray movie can be 5 GB or more.