External hard drives that play on ya telly

External hard drives that play on ya telly

I've got loads of avi and other video files that I would like to play on me tellys without having to burn onto dvds, I think an external hd that I can move between the 2 would be ideal.

I know maplin had one for £99 a month ago or so but I can't find it now...

I'm not the best with mod cons so any help on where to find them, what to look for and specific models would be great.

Cheers

have u got a usb port on your tv? as far as i'm aware, you'd have to have some sort fo 'browser' installed on the telly to look at the usb host device - so it was acting like a PC - which they don't, they're just display devices.

i think.

dont have usb on me telly... im sure ya can get ones that plug in another way. i'll keep hunting as the guy in maplin was on about one a while back. cheers!

Ive never heard of anything like this but if you do find one let me know cos it would be ideal for me

can you not just use a video ipod and a docking station?

You can get these, I'm sure. Bad geek advice MoS :tut:

Not quite what you were looking for Smog, but would this not work just as well:

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?TabID=1&ModuleNo=115137&doy=16m8

the pc shop ower the road to my office has these little external hard drives that u plug in to your tv as a media player like , i know u transfer the stuff from ur computer via usb but not sure how they connect to your telly , they come with remote control the lot tho !!!

hence the ' i think' at the end

Anyways, i'm not a FULL 100% geek - i have a girlfriend

i've got my dbox on the network at home - steaming straight to the telly and films i download - brilliant even got the uPnP working

You've redeemed your geek credentials with a sentence in which I can only understand the words telly and film.

lol ill get round to doing mine one of these days ,wot image u got on at the mo ??

was running Commando 8.2 for a bit which had a few more features (like IDE HD capacity) BUT currently Running Blade Trinity v2 - much more stable, nicer menus - not had any chirping/loss of channels - also steaming to VLC much better

think ill give that one a go then , its got a canny write up like !!!

since i got mine - i've had to buy 4 other people them

they've all got my modified image on with services, bouquets and my startup screen/lcd - i should release a ManofScience image :laugh:

DO IT

Re: External hard drives that play on ya telly

Is This What Your Looking For

my dad has one of these and its spot on

http://www.pjbox.co.uk/Mvix-MV-5000U-Multimedia-Center.htm

Cheers guys... some good suggestions. Think I have a few options now should I decide to splash my wages (or pester one for chrimbo)

buy a chipped xbox for about 60 quid with xbox media center and stream the videos from your pc.