The iPad isn't portable either. Seriously, when would you ever pull out an iPad to watch a movie? Most likely at your house or at school. At your house, you can just do the PC/TV thing I said. At school, you'll have so many kids swarming you to see it (AKA trying to touch the screen and mess you up) that you'll not even want watch it anymore. The only place I could really see you use it is in the car, but you'd have no wifi, so you'd have to download everything you'd want to watch before hand. Also, the bigger screen won't truly make a difference in the car.