Hello, I want to hook up an external hard drive in view of watching films and listening to music via my television. All I am missing is a DVD player with a USB socket to allow this.

Could any of you point me in the direction of a mid-range DVD player? I deally it needs to be black to match the tv.

I don't want to spend more than £60 odd.

Thanks boys and girls!

[ccursons]

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Originally Posted by Hannah85

Hello, I want to hook up an external hard drive in view of watching films and listening to music via my television. All I am missing is a DVD player with a USB socket to allow this.

Could any of you point me in the direction of a mid-range DVD player? I deally it needs to be black to match the tv.

I don't want to spend more than £60 odd.

Thanks boys and girls!

A USB DVD player to use with an external hard drive connected to a tv, I've never heard of any... and dont think such a devise even exists.....

[gaznik]

hmmmm my samsung dvd has a hsb host port, not sure if it can do what you want it to do, i;ll dig out the user guide and have a look.
Think the usb port is just for camera/mp3 dock ect

[gaznik]

usb exteral hdd

CUTIE serotech POCKET HARD DISK DRIVE
MOMOBAY UX-2 DVICO USB2.0

This is what it says in my user guide that usb host is compatible with, along with loads of camera's and mp3's

One thing it does say thou is you have to select he usb mode so i dont think it would record from tv anyway.

[Markynotts]

I was looking for something similar late last year. I found the Philips 5960 Dvd player had a USB socket where you could attach an externally powered hard drive. It would only display the first 8 characters of a file name though as the hard drive has to be FAT formatted.

In the end I went for one of these

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?...urce=1&DOY=5m3

It has a scart out on the back and transmits the 16:9 flag, which some divx dvd players dont do. It has played everything that I have loaded onto it and will even play a ripped dvd with menus - if you have the urge to do something like that.

Thanks all, however I have brought a WD 500gb mybook 2 for this purpose alone...

[dbramley]

My samsung DVD player has a usb port and I usually just plug a 4gb memory key in and play downloaded films / tv shows that way.

Make sure you get one that will play divx etc. as well.

The only issue I have is occasionally the USB port can't read the data quick enough so it sometimes skips, you may have that problem if using a large disk, not 100% sure though as I've not tested it.

Excellent feature though and highly recommended!

[DaddyFrag]

I purchased the Philips DVP5960 dvd player about two months ago.

It has a USB socket on the front and has played all my
downloaded divx / xvid avi's without problem.

It is divx 6 compliant and plays packed bitstreams, unlike others.

I currently use a sandisk usb memory stick but other users
have had success with a variety of hard drives and
mp3 devices as long as they are FAT32 formatted.

USB socket has onlty let me down once when playing
divx files with a high bit rate, due to the fact that it is
only USB1.1. The usual file size of 700 to 900Mb for a movie
is no problem, but I had the chronicles of Narnia last half
hour at 700Mb.

It is also black and slim although quite wide.

Comet online were selling it for 35 GBP delivered whereas
currys were selling in store at 49.99GBP.

It willl also play divx/xvid burned on CD/DVD without problem and high bit rates as mentioned above without problem.

One more thing, it had HDMI output and coaxial digital sound, so will work with your large LCD and surround sound.

I have read a lot of posts about philips being crap, but this unit seems to be ticking all my boxes so far, only time will tell.

Hope this helps.

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Originally Posted by DaddyFrag

I purchased the Philips DVP5960 dvd player about two months ago.

It has a USB socket on the front and has played all my
downloaded divx / xvid avi's without problem.

It is divx 6 compliant and plays packed bitstreams, unlike others.

I currently use a sandisk usb memory stick but other users
have had success with a variety of hard drives and
mp3 devices as long as they are FAT32 formatted.

USB socket has onlty let me down once when playing
divx files with a high bit rate, due to the fact that it is
only USB1.1. The usual file size of 700 to 900Mb for a movie
is no problem, but I had the chronicles of Narnia last half
hour at 700Mb.

It is also black and slim although quite wide.

Comet online were selling it for 35 GBP delivered whereas
currys were selling in store at 49.99GBP.

It willl also play divx/xvid burned on CD/DVD without problem and high bit rates as mentioned above without problem.

One more thing, it had HDMI output and coaxial digital sound, so will work with your large LCD and surround sound.

I have read a lot of posts about philips being crap, but this unit seems to be ticking all my boxes so far, only time will tell.

Hope this helps.

Thanks for taking time to post mate. I looked it up on amazon and read a review that said

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) USB port is 1.1. That is maybe the reason the machine can not read my external hard drives.

Does that seem right?

[ntlhellworld]

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Originally Posted by Hannah85

Does that seem right?

Nope, all USB2 devices are fully backwards compatible.

If it doesnt support his harddrives its because it doesnt support his harddrives, but nothing todo with the USB version.

-Chris

[MrGriller]

These might do it.

http://www.richersounds.com/showprod...CAMB-DVD99-BLK

http://www.superfi.co.uk/index.cfm/p...roduct_ID/3444

http://www.superfi.co.uk/index.cfm/p...roduct_ID/2985