Hooking up external hard drive with USB I have a question, as people say in their review that you can play videos directly from a hard drive, so can you use any portable hard drive like WD passport or seagate freeAgent and hook it up with USB? Because I was reading the manual and it says it only supports the USB flash drive and cannot power any USB device so I was just wondering that these external hard drives are powered also through USB so will it work?Please let me know. Hooking up external hard drive with USB I have a question, as people say in their review that you can play videos directly from a hard drive, so can you use any portable hard drive like WD passport... » Read More Hooking up external hard drive with USB I have a question, as people say in their review that you can play videos directly from a hard drive, so can you use any portable hard drive like WD passport or seagate freeAgent and hook it up with USB? Because I was reading the manual and it says it only supports the USB flash drive and cannot power any USB device so I was just wondering that these external hard drives are powered also through USB so will it work?Please let me know. « Show Less
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My USB drive worked fine. NTFS doesn't work. Fat32 does. The 138931 region code fix worked for me. But I haven't tested with a non-region 1 DVD yet.
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There's not enough power (amps) through USB, it needs to be a self powered drive but yes it can hook up to the USB.Also must be formatted in FAT32.
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The manual says it only supports playback of pictures from USB devices, though it lists the supported file types as JPG, DIVX, and MP3. I have never tried playing anything from a USB drive on this device, and don't know if firmware updates might have changed what is described in the manual.
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AJ ... the usb stick adds memory to the player which helps load certain BD discs. U can not record to it. U may be able to see photos on it, depending on the type of files U have. That kind of stuff works very well on a computer of course. I don't watch movies on a computer and I don't do internet stuff with a video player.
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To your question yes it can play from a thumb drives very well, also it can play hard drives no matter if it's a Mac or PC which is very good for me.So the answer to your question is yes it's a very good product to play from thumb drives even a thumb drive with the flash card embedded.I really enjoy having purchasing this media player it's amazing also I can get online and watching Netflix and Hulu, Facebook, YouTube this is really great device.
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That's a good question. I have never tried to capture any pics from an external hard drive. I wished I had an answer for you, but I don't.
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I'm looking at ir. It is a diagnostic port only, you cannot show video from a USB drive, but you should be able to get power from it. Good luck.
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No you can't, must be external HD using the USB port. The quality is poor, the software is poor, I bought one and try to update the software and after that the HD player is not working anymore, do not buy it try another one.
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Well, a USB back up? SO you have turned it into a external hard drive? If so it most likley just needs to be configured into what you want it to do. Odd though, never had this problem with any hard drive I have ever worked with or bought.
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I cannot specifically say that a "USB Player" will be recognized. I plugged in a thumb drive and it worked. I have also plugged in an external hard drive through a "Blac X" (USB) and it works flawlessly. I assume that any standard USB device will be recognized and therefore should work. I read the first comment about lousy product and service. That has not been my experience. I emailed a question about using thumbnail displays and received a prompt reply the following day that addressed, and answered, my specific question - it was not a generic automated response.
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Of course you can play any AVI directly from an USB pen drive... works perfect!!!I only have a doubt, have anyone tried to play any AVI from a portable Hard disk (USB 2.0) ?
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B. Meerdink, neither of the two information you brought are backed by the links you posted.I've been searching the internet for the same info D. Wong wants, I'm about sure there is no document on WD's website that will state which is the internal drive interface of "My Passport Essential" products. This is something only reviewers who have opened their "My Passport Essential" drives can tell us. Do you happen to own one of those? Have you opened it up?? Has anyone out there?
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No, it can't reliably run even a USB flash drive without external power. I tried 3 drives, 3 times.1st test - it didn't show any drive at all.2nd try... A Patriot 32GB USB drive was detected but it said Error: The bus power was too low or something. 3rd try.... It detected my USB flash drive ok, and I can read it. But it only runs at USB 1.0 speed.. getting .9Mbps/sec only. So it needs DC power to do much of anything. My other USB hubs can run without external power for flash drives. I have a USB 2.0 hub made by DLink and a USB 3.0 hub from "Plugable" that can operate a variety of devices without external power. This one can't. No, it can't reliably run even a USB flash drive without external power. I tried 3 drives, 3 times.1st test - it didn't show any drive at all.2nd try... A Patriot 32GB USB drive was detected but it said Error: The bus power was too low or something. 3rd try.... It detected my USB flash drive ok, and I can read it. But it only runs at USB 1.0 speed.. getting .9Mbps/sec only. So it needs DC power to do much of anything. My other USB hubs can run without external power for flash drives. I have a USB 2.0 hub made by DLink and a USB 3.0 hub from... » Read More No, it can't reliably run even a USB flash drive without external power. I tried 3 drives, 3 times.1st test - it didn't show any drive at all.2nd try... A Patriot 32GB USB drive was detected but it said Error: The bus power was too low or something. 3rd try.... It detected my USB flash drive ok, and I can read it. But it only runs at USB 1.0 speed.. getting .9Mbps/sec only. So it needs DC power to do much of anything. My other USB hubs can run without external power for flash drives. I have a USB 2.0 hub made by DLink and a USB 3.0 hub from "Plugable" that can operate a variety of devices without external power. This one can't. « Show Less
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Yes, external HDDs can be used, with varying degrees of success. They must be FAT32 formatted. I don't think a NAT will work, as the storage must be "Mass Storage Class Bulk-Only Transport". I don't believe a NAT HDD is compliant with that USB spec, but that may depend on the NAT. I own the DV-970HD, which has only USB1.1 and therefore is too slow to stream Divx encoded video from an external HDD. I'm getting the 980H to see if that problem is resolved with the USB2.0. The jury is currently out on what possibilities exist for streaming video to the 980H over USB. &gt;&gt;EDIT&lt;&lt; I have received the 980H and successfully streamed divx and xvid video over USB from an external HDD and flash drive. I experienced minor stuttering once when using a flash drive, but that was likely the fault of the flash drive being somewhat old and not particularly fast. A USB HDD works great. Note that there is a 700 file maximum due to hardware restrictions, so very large drives with a huge library of music, pics, or videos will likely not function as one might like. File browsing is rudimentary, but effective.
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Hi. You need to download a short authorization video from DIVX on to the USB drive then view and play it on the tv. Then it will work with DIVX videos and Photos will show up and you can view those as well. So you might want to get the free divx player/convert on your PC to use for loading your USB drive for HDTV use. I am pretty sure when your TV would not let you use your USB it told you a website to go to. Write it down and follow directions. Let me know if you need more help. vegaschris22@aol.com
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I tried to play a USB with mine. I used a 8gb flash drive and tried to play a 1.6gb mp4 file and a 756mb mp4 file. Each time it said the file type was unsupported.
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Not sure what I did wrong. But I plug this to my PC USB 3.0 port, then plug WD My Passport Slim 2TB Portable HD to it and the PC didn't recognize the HD. Plugging HD straight to PC USB port works.
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Dear friend, thank you for your message. It's sorry to tell you that this TV box does not support USB 3.0. But you can connect USB 3.0 external hard drives to this TV box. However, the processing speed cannot reach to be the same as USB 3.0. As the power supply for external hard drives, it's hard to say whether it needs external power supply. Some external hard drives needs external power supply while others don't need. Hope that this will be helpful. Have a nice day! Best regards, Keedox Customer Service Maria