External hard drive to TV.IS it possible?

knightstyle

My clever, well cleverer than me, daughter bought an Icebox and installed a spare hard drive. She now stores all her downloaded films on it to play on her TV.

roadster1

You could also get your hands on an old Xbox, put XBMC on it, network it to your laptop / PC or whatever, set up a share and play your films that way !

aliEnRIK

knightstyle wrote: »

My clever, well cleverer than me, daughter bought an Icebox and installed a spare hard drive. She now stores all her downloaded films on it to play on her TV.

All in the 'public domain' I hope

warrenpeace

roadster1 wrote: »

You could also get your hands on an old Xbox, put XBMC on it, network it to your laptop / PC or whatever, set up a share and play your films that way !

You could also do this with a new Xbox 360 which would also for HD Content in MP4 or WMV format without having to bother with XBMC

aliEnRIK

ABH wrote: »

Avoid all the rubbish you've been advised so far

Buy one of these instead: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sumvision-Cyclone-Player-Adaptor-Upscaling/dp/B002BZCE2Y save your films to data card (I'm sure you've got one of those somewhere) then plug it into the tv.

HTH

slushpuppy wrote: »

i used this but if i took out the network cable avi format wouldnt play even after getting the required codec from ms i bought a sumvision cyclone thing, it worked for a day then broke i wouldnt get another one ever as also i couldnt for the life of me find anything for the aspect ratio to be changed, thanks for this thread though as its a pain to convert and burn with convertxtodvd, i must have a look on ebuyer

thanks

I love posts like these

456789

I would say WD TV is the best option and will support future formats aswell or if you want to pay more something like popcorn hour/tvix

Jaffa.

Bowling_4_Gold wrote: »

A PS3 will do it.

So will a dvd player with a usb/firewire port

mr_fishbulb

Strider590 wrote: »

I have one of these:

http://www.freecom.com/ecproduct_detail.asp?ID=3753&CatID=400

It can be used as either an external HDD via USB or as a wireless network media player.
I got the empty box from Amazon (which still works as a network media streamer) and put in my own 500GB HDD, worked out much cheaper.

How does the wireless streaming work on those? Is it nice and smooth or jumpy?

I've got G (54mb/s) but not sure it will be quick enough.

Jaffa.

mr_fishbulb wrote: »

How does the wireless streaming work on those? Is it nice and smooth or jumpy?

I've got G (54mb/s) but not sure it will be quick enough.

I think that has a hard drive in it so all your movies will be stored on that. It's a file server. 54 mb/s is sufficien, devide 54 by 8 and you'll get the MB per second (6.75)

It will take 152 seconds to transfer 1GB of data

roadster1

456789 wrote: »

I would say WD TV is the best option and will support future formats aswell or if you want to pay more something like popcorn hour/tvix

As soon as I finish decorating the kitchen I'm going to try the 3rd party software on mine. I understand that it allows you to stream over your network as well as some other goodies.