Best gadget for watching movies on a 11 hours flight.

[SwizzleTweets]

What gizmo has the longest battery life while watching movies? At an affordable price.

I see some that has a description where it it says battery life of 11 hours, for example, but it's probably not for when watching movies, as it uses a lot more resources then.

So any experiences here, maybe? Appreciate it.

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buying sleeping pills is cheaper haha

[Deleted]

PSvita has a decent battery life, or the iPad if you can be bothered with apple

[Catta]

What gizmo has the longest battery life while watching movies? At an affordable price.

I see some that has a description where it it says battery life of 11 hours, for example, but it's probably not for when watching movies, as it uses a lot more resources then.

So any experiences here, maybe? Appreciate it.

You could always buy a couple of those rechargeable battery thingies you can plug into tablets and handhelds devices.

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

Get a ~6000 mAh auxiliary charger (sometimes called a "power bank") that you plug into the device to charge it. They cost around 50 dollars and will let you recharge the battery in a Nexus 7 about 1.5 times.

[roflwaffle]

Get a ~6000 mAh auxiliary charger (sometimes called a "power bank") that you plug into the device to charge it. They cost around 50 dollars and will let you recharge the battery in a Nexus 7 about 1.5 times.

This plus the nexus 7 having a pretty good battery life (in my experience) is your best bet

[Pandaemonium]

My Asus Transformer has held up for days on end. Sometimes I am surprised by it!

[Masark]

If you need serious run time, get an external battery. I personally have a 6000mAh Patriot one, which will charge my phone almost three times or a Nexus 7 one and a third times. They also come in sizes up to 9000mAh, which will do the Nexus 7 more than twice.

Or there's even bigger ones available, like this 12000mAh Verbatim unit, or this 15000mAh Anker unit.

[Naxere]

I know some international airlines (Qantas does for sure) have digital media screens on the back of each seat so you can watch movies, TV shows, play video games, or listen to music for free.

[Wildtree]

buying sleeping pills is cheaper haha

lol..... but actually it's my preferred method too..
During long flights I try to sleep as much away as I can. Usually helps to counter the jet lag at the destination.

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I've got an ipad air and it gets around 9 hours of watching videos before it dies... battery life is suprisingly good but it's probably one of the more expensive options. The only one I have personal experience with though.

[Systam]

I know some international airlines (Qantas does for sure) have digital media screens on the back of each seat so you can watch movies, TV shows, play video games, or listen to music for free.

Just traveled to Europe on a 10 hour flight and they had these. Everyone I've known says that there's Tv's on the back of international flights now. New movies!

[Perryn]

My GF has an asus transformer prime (tf201) (old now but still decent), with 18h total battery time between the pad and the keyboard (which has an additional batter pack built in). Very slim package (thinner than pretty much all regular laptops), noiseless and light (think it's something like 0.6kg in total). It's an android tablet so you're not stuck in apple-land either (for those that don't want that).

[schwank05]

Built in seat back tv's with like 100+ Movies and TV shows on them.

[Skippy88]

11 hours ouch! Hope the chairs are comfy!

I would check with your airline to see what entertainment options will be available first as those will be a lot cheaper. I only fly once or twice a year and some airlines have great entertainment options and others not so much. You might also want to check with your airlines to see if they have any recharging options right on the plane.

Good luck!

[SwizzleTweets]

11 hours ouch!

First 2 hours and 35 minutes flight, then 11 hours and 5 minutes, and last 6 hours.

[Evil Inside]

11 hours ouch! Hope the chairs are comfy!

I would check with your airline to see what entertainment options will be available first as those will be a lot cheaper. I only fly once or twice a year and some airlines have great entertainment options and others not so much. You might also want to check with your airlines to see if they have any recharging options right on the plane.

Good luck!

When I go on holiday to my home country(bosnia) it takes something like 23 hours of flight time alone, usually by the time we hit the second change point somewhere in asia I'm sick of flying already lol.

OT: An ipad can do this even though it's on the more expensive side. Any tablet combined with a power bank like the others above have recommended will do the trick as well, not to mention most overseas flights have in-flight entertainment systems with loads of movies, tv shows and even games built in.

[Lucetia]

I have an Asus Transformer 300 and it does really good on battery life. Depending on what type of video you are watching (codecs) you can watch it on power saving mode (for even better life) or balanced mode.

As several mentioned you might want to have another power bank of some sort. Whether it's a battery, keyboard (most have battery packs included), etc. To be safe though if you have like a backup laptop or something to use it could help.

Also, is it a straight flight? Or will you be stopping midway to change flights? If so, you could always use that time to charge and can watch stuff still while it charges.

[Kezotar]

It's an android tablet so you're not stuck in apple-land either (for those that don't want that).

Oh the fear in good technology, made on quality equipment that lasts for ages. Oh the fear.. the fear haunts me. I suppose I have to get rid of my Macbook Air, Iphone and Ipad now, right?

OT: You're never going to watch 11 hours straight, you're probably going to end up watching a few hours and doing some other stuff. Grab you phone, charge it, grab a pokemon game and time flies, you wont notice you're even there. Just doing all the gyms goes extremely fast, but is also very time consuming.

[stabetha]

pretty much every time I fly there is a power outlet I believe seatguru can tell you if there is or not.