SD Card Slot & HDMI inputs in this TV Hi, I am contemplating on buying this TV. I have two questions.1) Are the HDMI, S-Video inputs on the back of the TV or is it accessible from either side of the TV easily if its mounted on a wall.2) If I copy a movie file (Divx or Avi file) into an SD card and insert the card in its SD card slot will it play such movie files directly? SD Card Slot & HDMI inputs in this TV Hi, I am contemplating on buying this TV. I have two questions.1) Are the HDMI, S-Video inputs on the back of the TV or is it accessible from either... » Read More SD Card Slot & HDMI inputs in this TV Hi, I am contemplating on buying this TV. I have two questions.1) Are the HDMI, S-Video inputs on the back of the TV or is it accessible from either side of the TV easily if its mounted on a wall.2) If I copy a movie file (Divx or Avi file) into an SD card and insert the card in its SD card slot will it play such movie files directly? « Show Less
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1) There are two HDMI intputs on back and one on front, right below the screen. There is also one S-Video input on the front as well. The front panel is very easy to access and would work fine if mounted. I'm definitely mounting mine someday.2) As far as I know, no; I would recommend burning DVDs or SVCDs and feeding them to a DVD player, or just plug in your camcorder/camera to the front of the Viera and play it that way. I'm not a 100% sure though.
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I'm getting this tv delivered on Tuesday, Dec. 2nd, 2008. This is going to seem huge compared to my 13 inch tv that's hooked up now. I'm glad that it's getting really good reviews. Is it hard to set up? Can I do it on my own? What length is the base? I'm planning on putting it on the table that my other tv is currently on. Would all I have to do is plug it in and connect it to my cable just like my tv is now? I'm getting this tv delivered on Tuesday, Dec. 2nd, 2008. This is going to seem huge compared to my 13 inch tv that's hooked up now. I'm glad that it's getting really good reviews. Is it hard to set up? Can I do it on my own? What length is the base? I'm planning on putting it on the table that my other tv is currently on. Would all I have to do is plug it in and connect it to my cable just like my tv is now?
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If you want DivX/XVid playback consider the Philips range of DVD players. The model I have has a USB slot up front - great for loading up something from your computer on a flash drive and enjoying it on your TV minutes later. Another interesting thing you can do is get an external hard drive (formatted to FAT32) and plug it in through the USB slot - it will read like normal like a giant flash drive. That's really awesome when you think about it!
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I can't understand why Samsung is not including S-video on any of their new TV's. It seems a bit early to phase out S-video! I still sometimes use my SVHS VCR for home movies and occasionally like to play my SNES, N64, PSX, and Sega Saturn. Yeah yeah.. I know there are emulators, but has anyone tried to play a Sega Saturn or N64 emulator? They are garbage compared to the real thing.I was all set on buying a Samsung LCD, but cutting out the S-Video was a really bad move. I also don't know why they keep switching between 4ms and 6ms... I am seeing both.. So which is it? Maybe they should just average it out to 5ms! I can't understand why Samsung is not including S-video on any of their new TV's. It seems a bit early to phase out S-video! I still sometimes use my SVHS VCR for home movies and occasionally like to play my SNES, N64, PSX, and Sega Saturn. Yeah yeah.. I know there are emulators, but has anyone tried to play a Sega Saturn or N64 emulator? They are garbage compared to the real thing.I was all set on buying a Samsung LCD, but cutting out the S-Video was a really bad move. I also don't know why they keep switching between 4ms and 6ms... I am seeing both.. So which is it?... » Read More I can't understand why Samsung is not including S-video on any of their new TV's. It seems a bit early to phase out S-video! I still sometimes use my SVHS VCR for home movies and occasionally like to play my SNES, N64, PSX, and Sega Saturn. Yeah yeah.. I know there are emulators, but has anyone tried to play a Sega Saturn or N64 emulator? They are garbage compared to the real thing.I was all set on buying a Samsung LCD, but cutting out the S-Video was a really bad move. I also don't know why they keep switching between 4ms and 6ms... I am seeing both.. So which is it? Maybe they should just average it out to 5ms! « Show Less
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I just bought a 3D TV (Samsung PN59D550). I have the Sony bdp-s570 plugged directly into the TV via HDMI, and when I tried to play Bolt 3D, I get the black screen with the message that the set up is not 3D capable and that I should ensure that my blu ray player is hooked up to a 3D capable device via HDMI. I don't get it. Any one else have any suggestions on how to make this work? I don't want to go buy another Blu Ray player, but I am thinking of buying a Samsung BluRay player to ensure compatibility between the two. This is frustrating.
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Hey Joshua, the aux HDMI port in the front is just another additional HDMI port just like the ones on the back labeled game/sat. Its considered auxiliary HDMI because it's not considered for permanent usage. Like when a friend brings over their ps3/xbox., you can just plug the HDMI into that port in the front rather than digging through your media cabinet to get to the back HDMI ports.
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I just bought this unit, so I can understand the question. It is really quite simple.There are three HDMI inputs and one HDMI output on the Onkyo HT-S5100 (also tons of other RCA, etc. inputs, no problem there!). The HDMI output feeds into the TV, of course. But I found I needed to connect a cable or an optical cable to the back of the TV in order to feed the audio back into the Onkyo amplifier. Now EVERYTHING sounds great!
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Well for me the input came in useful as I have 3 devices HDMI compatible and only 2 HDMI inputs on my set. I have my DVR cable box connected to the Samsung receiver via HDMI and the Samsung receiver going to the TV via HDMI. Then I have my PS3 using the other HDMI. And that's what it is all about really. Without the input on the back, I wouldn't have enough inputs to connect everything HDMI.
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Wish I could be of help, but no luck here. Since HDMI has been available, I've made several attempts to multi-task with this technology, unsuccessfully. If I remember correctly, one of the reasons for the initial development was to put in place safeguards on content to prevent "pirating" hi-def, with the pressures of the movie studios and replaced component connections. Wish mine were a little heavier, then it'd make a good paper weight. But being no expert, it might seem that for less that 5 bucks, you might have better luck.
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I've had it a week and a few days ago the cable company upped my service to high-def. Wow! Incredible picture...as good as in the stores with their direct high-def signals. It has RCA inputs, but no outputs...like several others. It has an HDMI out, and an optical audio out. So today I just ordered a converter that will change the optical audio out signal over to digital with RCA plugs for my older model receiver - so I can get that great sound with the speakers that are already in the equipment cabinet. Again, the TV works great. Update on Sunday, Aug. 3. If you want to really get and idea of what inputs and outputs are available, I just had an idea. Go to: http://jvc-tv.com Then click on "support" then on "user manuals". Then look for the "emerald series 37" and you should be able to locate the page that shows all these in detail.
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Hello Gail, I bought mine several years ago for my wife. She uses it at work and to this day she has yet to have any problems with it. She watches it everyday at work during lunch. My suggestion is to make sure you have it on the right settings for watching TV,DVD,and aux input, if you try all those and the picture still doesn't work then you may need to send it in to Coby. The only other thing that I may say is the region setting may be off but, only if the picture doesn't work for the DVD only, if you aren't getting any picture on any of the input methods there may be some internal malfunction going on. Hope this helps. Hello Gail, I bought mine several years ago for my wife. She uses it at work and to this day she has yet to have any problems with it. She watches it everyday at work during lunch. My suggestion is to make sure you have it on the right settings for watching TV,DVD,and aux input, if you try all those and the picture still doesn't work then you may need to send it in to Coby. The only other thing that I may say is the region setting may be off but, only if the picture doesn't work for the DVD only, if you aren't getting any picture on any of the input methods there may be some internal... » Read More Hello Gail, I bought mine several years ago for my wife. She uses it at work and to this day she has yet to have any problems with it. She watches it everyday at work during lunch. My suggestion is to make sure you have it on the right settings for watching TV,DVD,and aux input, if you try all those and the picture still doesn't work then you may need to send it in to Coby. The only other thing that I may say is the region setting may be off but, only if the picture doesn't work for the DVD only, if you aren't getting any picture on any of the input methods there may be some internal malfunction going on. Hope this helps. « Show Less
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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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In the back of the device, there are L1 input port with RCA video, audio jacks and S-Video jack, and an RF coaxial cable input. In the front panel, there are L2 with RCA video, audio jacks and S-Video jack, and L3 with DV-in jack. There is no HDMI input nor USB port.
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To further my non answer: During the limited time the unit was operational, I did not use the USB input, only HDMI. It seemed to have no problem with that input. Now I know why it was a "limited" edition.
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VGA to TV Converter S-Video RCA Cable AdapterThis is not what you think no matter what card you have for video. I have a 200.00 N-Vida for TV and gaming and had Best buy'[s Geek squad come out and fix and they were all certified to date and way past in knowledge. Best we got was snow with barely a picture with sound that was not hearable after 3 hours work where as in 1 hour your "adapter????" was junked and I and my buddy used our own equipment. It was terrible but at least i got a picture and yours gave nothing. By the way if you are going to attempt, line up holes in adapter as they were bent as probably someones return. VGA to TV Converter S-Video RCA Cable AdapterThis is not what you think no matter what card you have for video. I have a 200.00 N-Vida for TV and gaming and had Best buy'[s Geek squad come out and fix and they were all certified to date and way past in knowledge. Best we got was snow with barely a picture with sound that was not hearable after 3 hours work where as in 1 hour your "adapter????" was junked and I and my buddy used our own equipment. It was terrible but at least i got a picture and yours gave nothing. By the... » Read More VGA to TV Converter S-Video RCA Cable AdapterThis is not what you think no matter what card you have for video. I have a 200.00 N-Vida for TV and gaming and had Best buy'[s Geek squad come out and fix and they were all certified to date and way past in knowledge. Best we got was snow with barely a picture with sound that was not hearable after 3 hours work where as in 1 hour your "adapter????" was junked and I and my buddy used our own equipment. It was terrible but at least i got a picture and yours gave nothing. By the way if you are going to attempt, line up holes in adapter as they were bent as probably someones return. « Show Less
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If you have a standard definition TV, it will not have an HDMI input, so it would be totally useless.SD TV: use the included RCA cables (yellow, red, and white)HD TV: use an HDMI cable (sold separately)
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We purchased this tv and it does not have a USB port. It does have an SD card slot but I'm not sure what you can do with that besides looking at pictures. I'm not sure if you can view picture shows or not.
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Thanks BlueDemon.I have actually been following the thread on AVSForum since it began. While there are some reports of loose HDMI connectors, muting, etc; it really isn't much (actual content-wise vs. wishing/hoping-wise). Amazon had a yellow note on their HT-CT500 page for a while saying that no orders were being taken because of Amazon customer-reported issues. I was curious to see what the actual issues were (causing a suspension of sales), in case any of those customers returned here.Thanks~Bill
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I had the same question. Glad to hear that there is no video lag. On the same note, I have a similar question: I would like to connect my Nintendo Wii through this receiver as well. Will this model take analog component and pipe it out over HDMI? The setup I currently have does not have component-in, so I will be using this as a hub for the time being. I realize there may be some input-lag due to conversion, I just want to confirm that this device would accept analog component input and then be able to push it out over HDMI. Any info would be appreciated!