Will the ASUS Cube V2 connect to & play the ripped movies and video's I have on my Network Attached Storage Drive? (much like the old Boxee Box does)
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No. It won't play anything that is not served up by a select set of play store aps. Honestly, hold out for abdroid tv, or get one of the small dongkes for 50 bucks. It really is a terrible product
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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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You cannot play conventional DVDs on it b/c it lacks a DVD drive, but you do have other options - 1. Attach an external DVD drive so that you can play DVDs2. Stream movies from someone like NetFlix (I love this site)3. Download movies from Amazon (or some other site) onto the SSD "C" drive or onto an additional SDHC card which you can plug into the provided expansion slot.You can buy high capacity SD cards at reasonable rates. See Amazon's offer of the A-Data 16 GB SDHC card for $29.
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It depends on what you want to do. To work on the device itself, the device own RAV FileHUB seemed to do the job pretty well even for watching videos. Essentially, it work like your average local network file server so anything that supports that should work. I use File Browser and GoodReader but have only really use RAV FileHUB on it. Where available, I would prefer to connect the storage devices directly to my computer and only uses the device when on the move.
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HEY FRANK:Dont think you are crazy. Adobe pulled its support for Amazon Unbox videos and the like. So, you simply wont be able to play your videos over your Asus until Amazon finds a way to patch or come up with a ew system of allowing people like you and I to watch the videos we have purchased. It licks balls because if you cant watch movies over it, whats the point, right? I have been assured that Amazon is working on this and will have a fix sooner than later. Until then, I either just watch stuff on Hulu or Youtube or, watch the stuff you have on Amazon at home over your Toshiba like I do. HEY FRANK:Dont think you are crazy. Adobe pulled its support for Amazon Unbox videos and the like. So, you simply wont be able to play your videos over your Asus until Amazon finds a way to patch or come up with a ew system of allowing people like you and I to watch the videos we have purchased. It licks balls because if you cant watch movies over it, whats the point, right? I have been assured that Amazon is working on this and will have a fix sooner than later. Until then, I either just watch stuff on Hulu or Youtube or, watch the stuff you have on Amazon at home over your Toshiba... » Read More HEY FRANK:Dont think you are crazy. Adobe pulled its support for Amazon Unbox videos and the like. So, you simply wont be able to play your videos over your Asus until Amazon finds a way to patch or come up with a ew system of allowing people like you and I to watch the videos we have purchased. It licks balls because if you cant watch movies over it, whats the point, right? I have been assured that Amazon is working on this and will have a fix sooner than later. Until then, I either just watch stuff on Hulu or Youtube or, watch the stuff you have on Amazon at home over your Toshiba like I do. « Show Less
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yes, not only that but it connects via wifi or ethernet to tons of apps like netflix hulu etc. it will also download dvd box art for each title in your library automatically... very pleased with this product! just make sure your movies are named properly for example: if you own "The Avengers" it needs to have "the" in the beginning etc for the artwork to download
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no. you have to connect it to the router directly via an ethernet cable. you can then connect to any drives connected to it though via your network, including wireless connections if your computer youre trying to access the drives from and your router has wifi capabilitiesthe box itself though is not wirelessanother warning, this device does NOT support drives over 2tb in size and the usb ports on it are usb2.0 not usb3.0
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There is no Amazon native app that I can see on it as of current firmware update. If the content you downloaded through Amazon isn't protected by any kind of DRM and is just a video file it will most likely play, this thing hasn't refused to play anything I've put in it so far. I just upload all the files to it via LAN and things play just fine.
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It won't play blue ray files as they come in blue ray discs. They need to be remuxed or converted to Mkv or Avi. You should be able to plug your 2TB drive.
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I have an advice for you; throw that piece of crap and buy this one [G-Box Midnight MX2 Android 4.2 Jelly Bean Dual Core XBMC Streaming Mini HTPC TV Box Player]. If you really want a 5* Media Player that's The One!!!
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Great Question! I am also curious about that as I would like to buy both the Samsung LN52A850 and a NAS (network attached storage) box that could be shared (i.e., play stored pictures, movies, etc., on the Samsung TV).
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Absolutely.I have movies & HD videos, stored on mine (i've since purchased another).They transfer fast via 3.0, and you can watch them directly from the drive.
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By "box" I assume you mean wireless router. All computers using a wired or wireless router will see this Network Attached Storage device.No other software is needed for computers to link to the Buffalo Linkstation. Tablets and Smartphone my need additional apps. Buffalo has apps for Android and iPhone, iPad.For the novice, the CD that comes with the Buffalo Linkstation should be installed to help get the storage device up and running.
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HEY FRANK: Dont think you are crazy. Adobe pulled its support for Amazon Unbox videos and the like. So, you simply wont be able to play your videos over your Asus until Amazon finds a way to patch or come up with a ew system of allowing people like you and I to watch the videos we have purchased. It licks balls because if you cant watch movies over it, whats the point, right? I have been assured that Amazon is working on this and will have a fix sooner than later. Until then, I either just watch stuff on Hulu or Youtube or, watch the stuff you have on Amazon at home over your Toshiba like I do.
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If your using the USB then yes, but I would recommend a NAS hard drive because it streams faster for video's than USB does. Hope this helps you.
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Hi C. Nunez, I will play a Japanese movie I just got with SRT file subtitles and I'll let you know the results. The alternative to this media box is a DLNA app on your computer (to play on your big screen) and I don't see advantage of DLNA over this WD box. I used TV MOBILI as a DLNA for months until they wanted money for going over 10 GB. This little box did the trick and even my nine year old son can run it.
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Good question, I was looking for that question and saw yours. I have a 500GB that I assume is no problem. I have read it plays some AVI files and not others, depending on codec.
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you can connect blu-ray drive with sata port on motherboard with a Pata port, but as i can see the bandwidth is not enough to watch movies from BD.