Can I watch my movies through this device? I want to set up a server for my movie collection on the external HD and make it available locally. Will th
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In theory, yes, you could, but I found two problems: only plays files in mp4 format, so you must convert any file to this;and that's the second problem, the conversion takes a loooong time, as a day per file. My advice, avoid this unit like the plague.
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I watch movies regularly. It creates icons on your desktop and in your file explorer that allow you to treat it just like a local drive. You can't watch movies through the backup interface though.
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what about netflix, etc? they all still work? can you hook an hdd up to use as dvr storage since the cloud no longer functions?
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I don't know how you configured your system to watch movies. I used iTunes to create a library of movies, TV shows, and music on the drive, which is connected via USB to my iMac. I then have an Apple TV device connected to my TV (Yes, I also have a Visio) using an HDMI port. The iMac and Apple TV can converse with each other to play movies through my Wi-Fi system (I have an Apple Time Capsule, but your Wi-Fi could easily be something else). Just bring up iTunes on the computer and select the library on the drive and you're good to go.
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Can you plug an HD Antenna into the back with a USB dongle & watch local over-the-air channels? - I have not tried it, but I don't believe so. Can it see/browse video files on a network NAS? - Yes. It was able to see my SaMBa share without any problems and play the videos there.
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You can play movies on it, but it is hard to figure out how to do this. Let me explain. I have a USB with 127 movie files on it. I plugged it in to this IVIEW and selected USB as the source. I got the first avi file to play, but I could not figure out to access its subtitles even though the srt file name was displayed. In order to read the remaining 126 files I had to stop the film and then select the USB again. The IVIEW displayed the USB folders much faster than any other player I own. I somehow managed to access a video_ts folder and got that film to play. Again no subtitles could be accessed. When I went back to access some other film files I could not remember what buttons I pushed to view the previous film. There are no instructions from IVIEW on how to use the remote control buttons to access the various video folders. Most of the remote control buttons seem totally useless to me. I pressed every button and it kept saying "feature not available at this time" or some other negative statement. There are many options offered on the right had side of the screen display, but none of these make the film file play on the TV. One would think that selecting the folder and then pressing the PLAY button would work. No it does not. The player seems to have a good brain software with terrible operating instructions and useless remote control. This player does well with avi and other files that are burned on to discs. For my USB film files I always use my Western Digital streamer [the disc menu features work best on the streamer] or my Philips 5990/5992 dvp.
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I believe so.... I stream movies through Cinema Now.Streaming might be more dependent upon your internet serve provider.
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Yes, you can attach a hd external in this device with your videos, photos, etc...You can't put direct in your computer.WD TV works like a media center, access data from external devices (pen drives, HDs...) put in your USB.WD TV conect if your tv with HDMI cable..Easy, very easy...You don't need Internet conection, but if you have WD TV will download information about your movies, tv shows... You will have something like a Netflix in your home.Regards,Alex
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Yes, if your home media server is on a NAS like Zyxel that supports DLNA then it will work vey well. You can stream video from it, also photos and music fine. Though the media server app on it that allows you to do that is pretty basic(even lacking in some areas like slideshows, etc.) I'm not sure if there is a better app on Google Play for this.
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I have the cube V2 and use Plex media server on a server I have in my house. I installed the plex client for android and have no issues watching movies across the network. Not to mention I can watch movies on plex from any where on the internet. Have fun.
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Yes my daughter has a fire hd and is fully able to access movies from the device. Once connected to the wifi the goflex puts out you open the Internet and it automatically takes you to the seagate portal. Works awesome
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I went with the Brite-View CinemaTube instead and I am very happy with it. The only problem is you can't use the bittorrent feature with an HFS+ drive. But that's a non-issue for me. Otherwise it works great. And with the new firmware due out any day now you will be able to copy files from you mac to the HD connected to the CinemaTube. I haven't yet used the streaming but it's a cool feature th Asus doesn't have. I use it to play avi and mkv files mostly. Cool device and mac compatible. Hope this helps.
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This device cannot be put on a network on it's own. You would need to connect it to a Media Server on your network (Ex:PC, Mac, Roku....). You will need appropriate apps on your device to stream content from the Seagate though the Media Server on to your device.
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Yes, just keep in mind that you will not be able to access network services through the HDMI port, but it will play movies from your local drive just fine. File size doesn't matter. I play 4-6 gb full 1080p MKV files all the time. I highly recommend the MKV container (with H.264 encoding) as you can also use Dolby digital 5.1. It is one of the few formats that works well.
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There are devices available, that will help you to do it - USB Portable Media Players. It connects to the TV and you just need to plug in the portable drive into it to be able to watch the movies on TV. I personally have an Iomega screenplay media drive that is an external hard drive with capability to plug into tv to watch the movies.
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Yes this is possible. I have connected my hard drive to wd router and is able to play the movies from my sony blu ray player and logitech revue. This is not certified dlna but it supports upnp which is the actual protocal behind DLNA. Please also remember that the files will play only if your tv/player supports the codecs
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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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There are devices available, that will help you to do it - USB Portable Media Players. It connects to the TV and you just need to plug in the portable drive into it to be able to watch the movies on TV.I personally have an Iomega screenplay media drive that is an external hard drive with capability to plug into tv to watch the movies.