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Thread: Looking For Portable HDD's that play Divx

  1. #1

    Surprised/Amazed

    Hi,

    I want to watch my divx files etc. on my T.V. but its just not feasable cos they are so far apart!
    So was looking for an alternative options.

    Maybe Looking to buy a portable HDD that play divx files straight from HDD
    like these two...

    LACIE Silverscreen

    RIMAX HDDivx

    I never knew they existed until recently... are there any others?
    Or alternatively Is there a better way for me?

    Thanks

    p.s. by the way I have a NVida Geforce TI-4600 128mb Graphics card.

  2. Software & Hardware   -   #2
    muchspl2
    Guest
    why not get a 60 dollar dvd player ?
    phillips dvp642 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...60920?v=glance

  3. Software & Hardware   -   #3
    Quote Originally Posted by muchspl2
    why not get a 60 dollar dvd player ?
    phillips dvp642 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...60920?v=glance
    Yeah I got a divx player, a Yamada 6100 but just fed up with burning all those discs to watch them... then some don't work .

  4. Software & Hardware   -   #4
    muchspl2
    Guest
    you have a dvd burner? I'm not familiar with that model but mine plays 99% of everything I can throw at it, the only problem is it won't play Xvid files that were encoded with QPEL (Quarterpixel Quantization)

  5. Software & Hardware   -   #5
    Quote Originally Posted by muchspl2
    you have a dvd burner? I'm not familiar with that model but mine plays 99% of everything I can throw at it, the only problem is it won't play Xvid files that were encoded with QPEL (Quarterpixel Quantization)
    No Don't have a dvd-burner...
    My can't play QPEL either

  6. Software & Hardware   -   #6
    muchspl2
    Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by BILLY-THE-FISH
    No Don't have a dvd-burner...
    My can't play QPEL either
    I heard its chip based and we have to wait for the next generation divx players for the QPEL fix.
    A dvd burner would save you burning tons of cdr's, I can get 2 seasons of most half hour shows or 6 divx movies on one dvdr
    dvdr's or less than .40c

  7. Software & Hardware   -   #7
    how expensive are those hard drive media players? 'cause, there are non-drive players which can stream things from a Windows pc over ethernet, for only about $200 USD... which may be perfectly adequate for your needs.

    there's this... http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=318
    and this... http://www.linksys.com/extend/

    an Xbox game console is also a good choice at $150 USD, since it's easy to apply a hack to it (no mucking around with the nuts & bolts: you just need a memory card, a USB memory card writer, and a particular game which is able to boot the hacked save file), install Xbox Media Center, and essentially have a small-ish multimedia PC for a low price in your tv room.

    http://www.xboxmediacenter.de/index.php
    apparently Microsoft has also taken a cue from the hackers and released a similar thing officially, which can be used without voiding the warranty... http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/x...erextender.htm

  8. Software & Hardware   -   #8
    You might want to look into one of these things... I'm thinking about getting one of these
    ModiX USB 3.5 HDD player
    Video Support: MPEG1, 2, 4 near DVD quality up to 720 x 576 @ 30f/s, AVI. MPG, DAT, VOB, M2P, M1V, M2V file format. Read XviD and DivX 3.11, 4.0 & 5.0
    http://www6.tomshardware.com/consumer/20050106/

    http://www.compusb.com/mohdhd72pous.html

  9. Software & Hardware   -   #9
    Quote Originally Posted by 3RA1N1AC
    how expensive are those hard drive media players? 'cause, there are non-drive players which can stream things from a Windows pc over ethernet, for only about $200 USD... which may be perfectly adequate for your needs.

    there's this... http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=318
    and this... http://www.linksys.com/extend/

    an Xbox game console is also a good choice at $150 USD, since it's easy to apply a hack to it (no mucking around with the nuts & bolts: you just need a memory card, a USB memory card writer, and a particular game which is able to boot the hacked save file), install Xbox Media Center, and essentially have a small-ish multimedia PC for a low price in your tv room.

    http://www.xboxmediacenter.de/index.php
    apparently Microsoft has also taken a cue from the hackers and released a similar thing officially, which can be used without voiding the warranty... http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/x...erextender.htm
    I was about to suggest getting an xbox.

    Xbox - $150
    200 GB hd - $100

    $250 to be able to keep a hell of alot of divx/bin/mpg/mov and all other formats on the hd.
    Need a cheap/easy way of modding your xbox? Check this out.


  10. Software & Hardware   -   #10
    Quote Originally Posted by freak
    You might want to look into one of these things... I'm thinking about getting one of these
    ModiX USB 3.5 HDD player
    Video Support: MPEG1, 2, 4 near DVD quality up to 720 x 576 @ 30f/s, AVI. MPG, DAT, VOB, M2P, M1V, M2V file format. Read XviD and DivX 3.11, 4.0 & 5.0
    http://www6.tomshardware.com/consumer/20050106/

    http://www.compusb.com/mohdhd72pous.html
    Unfortunately, with Xvid only an error message appears, and the same goes for film files that were coded with Microsoft WMV9. Too bad
    Thats Foolish...
    Last edited by RealitY; 01-25-2005 at 03:41 AM.

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