Apple has unveiled their brand new iPad today which will let you bring HD movies with you on the go. Not to mention the plethora of other features the revolutionary new product will offer.

As unveiled by Apple top dog Steve Jobs at the company’s press conference in San Francisco, the iPad is a tablet computer that’s essentially an oversize, souped-up version of the iPod Touch or iPhone. It also comes with a whole host of news features that offer consumers fresh ways to consume video, from HD movies to full-screen YouTube clips to web footage on The New York TimesWeb site. The intention is that it’ll now be just as easy to go where no man has gone before with “Star Trek” as it has been to rock out with Gaga’s “Poker Face.”

With a 9.7-inch touch-screen display and a battery life of 10 hours, the iPad will offer the most robust viewing experience yet available on an Apple mobile device. Ranging from 16GB to 64GB in storage size and $499 to $829 in price, you can now carry far more video than previously possible and play that video for far longer than ever before. However, viewed in landscape mode, widescreen movies on the iPad only take up about half of the screen’s display. Reformatted movies, conversely, take up the entire screen — and the tablet is basically all screen, as there’s just one button and a thin strip of black framing the device.

Apple has been quietly building its HD movie catalog for a while and the iPad seems positioned to take advantage of that increased selection — iTunes now boasts thousands of downloadable movies and TV shows. When it comes to HD, you’ll also be able to watch YouTube clips in top-notch quality. The new YouTube app allows for easy visual organization of clips that automatically play in full screen when in landscape mode.

This is a big announcement in the consumer electronics world, and this is just the beginning. This is going to be a great new generation of technology. Movies have never looked this good on the go! But for the record, I think they could have gotten a little more creative with the name.

Source: MTV Movies

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