oh, we're just talking about if you hook up a external hdd to the dvd player through the usb port. the player only will read fat32 partitions which is kinda stupid, but it works. i had to read through a few hardware forums to find out that was the reason it wasn't working. it's about the only drawback i saw in the player. aside from that, it's kickass.
there's also a few usb thumb drives that don't work with it. however, they're usually the cheap ones (something to do with needing too much power i think).
NTFS has potential security issues which can make external drives unusable in some devices. This is almost certainly the reason it isn't supported.
Personally I wouldn't touch anything that hasn't sorted out a decent file name display - 8 characters is simply inadequate and shows that the manufacturers don't really care enough about their product to sort out a simple feature like that.
.Political correctness is based on the principle that it's possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
It's the Philips DVP-5960.
It is a beast.
It's slim as hell. I drop my downloads on a USB thumbdrive and pop it in and play.
Because of the HD upscaling, my downloads are in nice widescreen near HD quality.
I watched some old episodes of Alias that I missed that were reran on TNT HD and wifey didn't know I was watching a computer download and not TNT.
Now I download any TV series that doesn't have an HD feed. Nip/Tuck on FX, The Shield on FX, Monk on USA, etc.
Hell my PQ is better than SDTV and my DVDs are just awesome!
Pick up some 2 to 4GB USB thumbdrives when on rebate. I got some 2 GB ones for $20 (and have got 1 GB ones for $5).
The file system on the DVD player is off little consequence with a thumbdrive but is slightly annoying with a USB hard drive (lots of files).
Last edited by Busyman™; 03-28-2007 at 04:48 AM.
The 642 is the best. If the sound goes out of sync, hit the menu button a couple of times.
The 642 combined with Lisa B's standalone guide are pretty good...http://www.jarnot.com/twiki/bin/view...LisaBsAVIGuide
But I still prefer my modded xbox with the hd cables...FTPing the files takes no time and the results are great.
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