Will the USB input play a portable hard disk drive ?
1320667
My assumption is "yes" but I have not tried. I'm sure complete instructions are in a pdf somewhere on-line if you wanted to do further research...
1320668
Most receivers or soundbars are not cable of accepting a hard driver directly, as they do not have the CPU to control the drive.
911138
Yes, it will play from a Fat32 formatted 8GB(max) usb drive stick, with standard mp3's(it will support at max a 256bitrate mp3)
2181295
Yes. It works as a typical usb drive. Not to be confused with a hard drive.
974902
Thank you for your interest in our products. This will not work with external drives/hard drive devices, it will only work with thumb drives.
1631183
from what i can read from resesrching - if the drive is less than 1TB it should recognize the device and play
110295
i didn't try it but it show as a normal disk once connected to USB, so potentially it should work, my advise check mediasonic forums. the device it self is solid.
1041442
You do not need anything special to be able to play media stored on a portable, external hard drive. The only thing you must do is make sure that your media is in a format that is compatible with this receiver.
1898155
Yes,it can read external usb hard disk, we have tested with the 1TB seagate hard disk, and also can play videos on disk directly. also it support RMVB, you can use "MX PLAYER" to play the RMVB video.
1577066
Initially it worked great with my Toshiba portable hard drive (Toshiba Canvio Basics Portable Hard Drive 320 GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive) but after about two weeks, for some reason I started getting errors when I plugged my hard drive into to it. It has worked fine for other devices though - speakers, my wired keyboard, mouse. And it has no problem reading my smaller flash drives. My 8G Sandisk flash drive works fine when plugged in directly. Hope that helps a little. Thanks-
196567
I would imagine it reads digital info on a CD just as it does on a DVD. The disc drive in my computer reads both and burns both. I don't see why a portable drive would act any differently.
1756981
Like it's been said if your drive has a plug you should be fine, but the longer a USB cable is, the less amount of power there is that GETS to a device. Like the rep said I doubt this would charge / power ANYTHING, not even a tiny mp3 player. Let alone a usb hard drive like a WD passport.
539453
If your portable hard drive has a headphone jack use this. Or an adapter cable that's USB on one end and standard A/V connections on the other.
1876232
It would depend on how large of a USB drive you get. My unit is broke. Just got a replacement and the replacement is DOA.
356687
No. I've found the USB on this is totally useless. Can't even play from a flash drive.
968649
this is just an extension no electronics involved ,if you can play music plugging your flash drive directly into isimple interface then .yes it will play.
1560001
Can't say for sure, I do use mine with a portable drive, but a different brand name though. I would think the cords are pretty standard on all portable drives, I would think maybe it would but I could not guarantee it.
1648632
If you mean usb drive then no. This device only supports micro SD for external memory.