Movies from Portable Hard Drive: Has anyone used the USB port to play movies stored on a portable hard drive?
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I have had this unit for over a year, and it works great. The USB drive must be formated as FAT 32. It will power up a 2.5 inch portable USB drive off its USB port.
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It does have a USB port for playing media from a USB drive, but both units died before I got to try it.
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I'm not sure if you can plug an External USB device and play the files, you could however share your DVD/BluRay drive on your computer and play the files over the newtork (wired gigabit connection to be stable). It will play bluray/dvd iso or raw files. I bought a few 4TB externals and just created ISO files out of my blurays so I don't have to get up and get the disc, I can just select them from a list and play them.
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Has anyone tried to connect an external HD to the USB port and saved their files?
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to my best recollection is not official pdf download of the instructions. Somebody may have made a PDF and posted it somewhere but I have never seen it. The unit comes with a very small and brief set of instructions (but you really dont need more, the device is self explanatory). You cannot use this on an external hard drive to watch movies, it will not read the files on the drive. If you want to watch a movie you need to put it on a thumb drive/flash drive. Also MKV for some reason on all these types of devices sucks and freezes up. You get better performance from MP$ files. you can email me further questions at rlalum@sbcglobal.net
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Not sure if you can play the USB audio, I tried and couldn't "find" the file to play it after I plugged it in. You may be able to play the disc, I've never tried that option, but you won't have the words on the screen. I also use mine as my DVD player for movies, etc when not using for karaoke
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I've played avi and mkv by connecting my external hard drive to a usb port. They were played well but the subtitle integrated in my mkv files couldn't be read.
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It plays everything exactly like a DVD. I have all the DVD menu and bonus features of my movies from the portable hard drive. I asked the same thing before I got it.
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Well for one that's not true. I watch movies on my ps3 and my flash drive is NTFS. I assume you could do Fat32 but have not tried.
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Even USB 2.0 drives can will work for watching HD movies. The big difference will be the transfer speeds transferring large movies or HD movies to and from the USB drive. Transferring HD movies on a USB 2.0 drive is painfully slow.
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There only certain formats that work when I use my USB harddraive to play movies. Try converting to from MP4 to AVI.
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yes, i use my external for this all the time. just plug it into the usb port. no problem with any video filetype i have found yet
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I've had mine now for about two years and have a 3TB Seagate External hard drive attached to it via the USB port. The 3TB model has an external power connection. Thus, it is not powered by the USB port. Having said that, I use mine for watching my movie collection that I have converted from VHS and DVD to mp4. I have had no issues accessing the drive nor using the Sony remote to scroll through files and find the content I want. A nice upgrade would be if the USB port were a USB 3.0 versus a USB 2.0, but as-is, it works fine for me.
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I don't think the projector has built in media playing software. I have my projector hooked up to my PC via hdmi cable. I don't think there's a way to directly play media from an external hard drive though.
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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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I have the Q7 and I use a 640Gb portable hard-drive with it without problems. I have about 700 movies on it and I don't need anything else but the projector and the hard-drive. It is a non-powered hard-drive also, so the USB port has enough power to run it. Hope this helps.
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My Coby TF-DVD7377 reads and plays USB flash sticks with no problem. The ones I'm using are an 8-gig Lexar (for video) and a 4-gig Dane-Elec (for MP3 music). I do not currently own one of the newer USB-powered external hard drives, so I cannot comment on that. However, this Coby player is able to read and play files from my five-year-old Western Digital 80-gig hard drive (the WD drive is powered by an AC adapter).