Looking For Portable HDD's that play Divx

[BILLY-THE-FISH]

Hi,

I want to watch my divx files etc. on my T.V. but its just not feasable cos they are so far apart! :no:
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 (http://www.lacie.com/uk/products/product.htm?pid=10480)

RIMAX HDDivx (http://www.rimax.co.uk/products.asp?id=107)

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.

[muchspl2]

why not get a 60 dollar dvd player ?
phillips dvp642 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000204SWE/102-6411822-8560920?v=glance

[BILLY-THE-FISH]

why not get a 60 dollar dvd player ?
phillips dvp642 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000204SWE/102-6411822-8560920?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 :no: .

[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)

[BILLY-THE-FISH]

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 :devil:

[muchspl2]

No Don't have a dvd-burner...
My can't play QPEL either :devil:
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

[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/xboxmediacenterextender.htm

[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

[SingaBoiy]

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/xboxmediacenterextender.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.

[RealitY]

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...

[fkdup74]

Read XviD and DivX 3.11, 4.0 & 5.0

they couldnt get xvid to work
http://www6.tomshardware.com/consumer/20050106/modix-09.html

[freak]

Big deal it takes little to no effort to encode to a divX or mpg file...

Plus I'm sure there will be a firmware upgrade! This is still very new stuff got to give them some time to improve it.

But if u like Xvid here's a few more
http://www.jetaudio.com/products/tvix/
http://www.cooldrives.com/25usb20dvpov.html
http://www.usbgear.com/USB-DIVX-Player.html
http://www.directron.com/av120.html

[muchspl2]

I don't trust toms hardware, the cater to whoever gives them the best toys.
I wish everyone knew how bias they are

[RealitY]

Ide wait on this anyway but its nice to see that well finally see this type of stuff...

[BILLY-THE-FISH]

Big deal it takes little to no effort to encode to a divX or mpg file...

Plus I'm sure there will be a firmware upgrade! This is still very new stuff got to give them some time to improve it.

But if u like Xvid here's a few more
http://www.jetaudio.com/products/tvix/
http://www.cooldrives.com/25usb20dvpov.html
http://www.usbgear.com/USB-DIVX-Player.html
http://www.directron.com/av120.html

Yeah some of them look great to me but unfortunately non of them in the UK!
I wish they would sell them here :wacko:

[freak]

Yeah some of them look great to me but unfortunately non of them in the UK!
I wish they would sell them here :wacko:

Heres one place that sells the TViX in the UK
http://www.rgml.co.uk/results.asp?search=tvix&Submit=Search

[BILLY-THE-FISH]

Heres one place that sells the TViX in the UK
http://www.rgml.co.uk/results.asp?search=tvix&Submit=Search
Thanks mate, but just look at the price in the UK!! :angry:

[freak]

I didn't bother to convert it... So the #'s really didn't mean much to me i just posted it lol

[BILLY-THE-FISH]

Ok thanks anyhow