Forum Archive Home -> DVD & Blu-ray Players -> External Hard Drive to DVD Player through TV
External Hard Drive to DVD Player through TV |
| illpeeonu posted 2009 Jan 13 14:32 |
| I was recently in Atlanta and my cousin stated how he was moving away from DVD Disc and began storing media on his External Hard Drive. He says he hooked the External through the DVD Player via USB and was able to view his movies on his TV with no issues.
Is this possible? If so, what DVD Players / External Hard Drive combinations should I get? All help is appreciated. Thanks |
| redwudz posted 2009 Jan 13 14:50 |
| The Philips 5990 is one economical player that will do that. You use a external hard drive formatted as FAT32 to store the videos. Here's a link to the method I used: http://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers?DVDname=philips%205990&Su ... s=50#70038
Other players will also work in a similar fashion. There are also stand alone hard drives that output video that you can hook directly to a TV. One example: http://forum.videohelp.com/topic358929.html |
| illpeeonu posted 2009 Jan 13 15:25 |
| Thanks for the reply. Does it matter the External Storage systgem I use?
I appreciate your help. |
| redwudz posted 2009 Jan 13 15:39 |
| The Philips needs a USB drive formatted in FAT32. USB flash drives also work. Most any external USB hard drive will work. The Philips does have a file limitation of 648 titles, but apparently you can use folders and have possibly that many titles in each folder. I used a 320GB USB HDD with no problems.
If you are interested in the Philps, it's usually available at Walmart. The files can be in Divx/Xvid format or MPEG. I would also recommend the firmware modification from vb6rocod: http://forum.videohelp.com/topic355675.html |
| illpeeonu posted 2009 Jan 14 07:37 |
| Thanks for all your help. |
| Epicurus8a posted 2009 Jan 14 15:21 |
| The Philips machine is also available from Amazon @ $54.99 (no tax & free shipping).
http://www.amazon.com/Philips-DVP5990-1080p-Upscaling-Player/dp/B ... amp;sr=8-1 Here are some other sellers..... http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=philips+5990&oe=utf- ... ps-sellers |
| RabidDog posted 2009 Jan 18 03:57 |
| Max of 648 files for Philips m/c. We really need to work on that other TV's issues. |
| Gareee posted 2009 Feb 05 12:02 |
| Can you create a partition on an external hd, one for fat32 (for the dvd player), and the rest for larger format files not meant to be read by the dvd player? |
Login/Register to our forum to be able to post here.