Can I use this to store electronic copies of ~200 DVDs and watch them through the TV (either straight through the TV, or through an Xbox)?
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No, you'll need to "rip" them first with a program like Joboshare DVD Ripper which will create a single "container" file that you can play via the usb port on you TV box or, in my case, I just plug it into my DVD player and select the USB entry button on my remote. The movie files are listed and you just click on the one you want to play. Nice thing about Joboshare is that by default it provides "jumps" every five minutes so that you can navigate quickly back and forth (the feature is adjustible). External hard drives like this are perfect for storing and playing media files.
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I don't think you would want to do that. I think the quality from TV to a Disc would be very good. If you want to copy or (BURN) from a Disc to a Disc would be the way I would want to go. I'm no expert but I (BURN) from Disc to Disc.
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I already had an external blu-ray burner, so I use that. It is kind of a good thing. If you think about it, it is one less thing to break and require you to send it and get it repaired.
1232664
Absolutely. This is why i bought this over the more fancy streaming devices out there. As i have over 1200 movies on my harddrive and wanted to be able to flip through movies instead of digging out the DVD for it. I run a 4 TB harddrive on it and there is never any lag and works flawlessly every time. It i use it for this and Netflix and does the job as needed.
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Don't forget to get 'Y' adapters so u can split the signal for your TV and the Dazzle. I got this to record matches myself (coming today) off my xbox (which is not "pirated" anything, it's game play footage).
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I have not tried that. It is a DVD player so you don't really need to do that to view the DVD. I use it for recording off air and cable shows onto the hard drive. It works like a champ for that and I have been using it for the last year without a glitch. I am very happy with it. I have two of them in fact and they both work well for my purposes.
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Not a good choice for those items. The console is suited for DVD , CDs or small items.
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Yes you can ... You can also use it with hdmi compatible game systems and DVD players etc.
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I have not tried this but I will need to do so. My husband, a true genius which I can prove by the electronic devices he developed that are till being sold as top notch by well known companies (he's an EE out of Stanford at 17 years top of his class), is now incapacitated by a stroke... put 3 DVD's in the slot at once and now it doesn't send them out. So I don't know the answer!
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No I don't think so. It functions with an SD card, which is better because you can then transfer that to your computer and make dvds.
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no you cant, but it has plenty to use for cd's and way more if you do dvd's.
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We are using it for DVDs. It holds over 250 DVDs. CDs would be a lot more, at least twice that I would assume.
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I don't know...I used in my desktop computer to copy pre-recorded DVDs .....that came out perfect for my purposes....
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I have never used it for that purpose but I don't see why I can't be used that way. It's a very good hub and I have plugged an external dvd player, an external hard drive, a printer, and a memory card reader and it does run all of those items.
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I believe it would hold 360 dvds. I hope that helps! I love it, for whatever that's worth.
36072
No, it isn't designed to be a storage unit, only to manage your tv signal to your pc. It works in conjunction with windows media center to do recordings. You need to use your storage on your pc.
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No - I recommend getting either an external DVD/CD reader, or an external hard drive such as a Western Digital passport that you can store larger files such as installation media, etc. and run those from the external drive.