Can I plug a hard drive to the USB connector and play movies?
1890181
I download movies on-line and convert them to mpeg. if necessary. I then put them on flash drive\thump drive and play them through my blu-ray player. Only thing I miss is closed captioning.
1890182
Doesn't recognize thumb drive, droid phone yes, iPods yes...will give it a go and update this answer in a couple of days, it seems like the only way would be over a network connecction or with a router that can attach network harddrive. Will test and let you know.
1890183
Simple answer: No. The unit does not have 1) hard disk reading software/hardware (those are complex and built into computer operating systems) nor, 2) a movie decoder built into it. It will play a few audio formats (MP3, AAC, M4A), however, from thumb drives, but it does NOT play ANY VIDEO from sources connected to its USB ports.
159633
Type in the following at YouTube. Watch a movie on your TV from a USB drive. This video shows you how.
1772542
I don't think the projector has built in media playing software. I have my projector hooked up to my PC via hdmi cable. I don't think there's a way to directly play media from an external hard drive though.
1619917
Yes. Its possible but its only for a firmware update and presentation from other display devices that support USB videos like some high-end mobile phones. You cannot use the port to view slideshows or other files eg movies loaded on to the drive.
1219162
No but you can plug a USB drive in to it and watch your movies and listen to music
1732591
yes.. just be sure the "software" will play MTS (transport streams) and the USB drive has enough storage space 1 hr of high def video is approx 16bg streams are blu-ray compatible i play them with VLC player and Media player classic
1474473
Yes I put all Music Videos and movies on the hard drive plugin it .Then from my cellphone or my tablet I can watch all movies when I parked the car at parking lot and waiting for my wife go shopping.One thing if you want to change the hard drive you need to break the clip otherwise when you lock it you can't change HD.
1170520
Yes it can. I am actually using an external Blu-ray drive via USB 3.0 port.
1039831
Yes, you can play any MPEG encoded movies, Windows AVI format movies from this drive.
1598052
In theory, you should be able to; but in practice, I cannot say for sure since I do not have a Smart TV to test this theory out. If you already have the capability to play HD movies from your computer through the Smart TV, then the odds are more in your favor. Once you connect the external hard drives to your computer, then it should be just a matter of selecting your new NAS drives as the source.
1718071
Yes it can. It will play movies and videos right from your stick or usb hard drive. Plays formats like avi,mp4,dvix,xvid,matroksa,wmv,flv and much more.
529244
No you cannot. There are RCA, 3-RGB, 1 S-Video and 1 HDMI ports, but no USB.
2206384
Idk about a straight hard drive install. Not sure how you would access the files. I do, however, regularly connect my computer/iPad to the tv thru an HDMI cable. I can watch files on the unit or stream from the internet.
1709850
I'm sure you can, as I have a 64gb thumb drive with movies that we access through the file system and watch on our tv.
1306833
No you can't, but you can plug a roku into the HDMI and plug the USB drive into it and watch it that way
2268141
I've played avi and mkv by connecting my external hard drive to a usb port. They were played well but the subtitle integrated in my mkv files couldn't be read.
1480604
Yes if you're using USB 3.0. Movies will play on USB 2.0 but will be clunky instead of smooth animation.