can you watch video from an external hard drive i do not want to download video to my hard drive, so i want to get an external hard drive, so it does not slow down my computer. i heard the 1tb toshiba will not let you watch video, it just stores it. any comments? i do not know much about this stuff, i never backup anything also, i do not think i have anything to backup. can you watch video from an external hard drive i do not want to download video to my hard drive, so i want to get an external hard drive, so it does not slow down my computer. i heard the 1tb... » Read More can you watch video from an external hard drive i do not want to download video to my hard drive, so i want to get an external hard drive, so it does not slow down my computer. i heard the 1tb toshiba will not let you watch video, it just stores it. any comments? i do not know much about this stuff, i never backup anything also, i do not think i have anything to backup. « Show Less
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There are devices available, that will help you to do it - USB Portable Media Players. It connects to the TV and you just need to plug in the portable drive into it to be able to watch the movies on TV.I personally have an Iomega screenplay media drive that is an external hard drive with capability to plug into tv to watch the movies.
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Tried to download my music library from Tosh 320 to both a Mac & Windows laptop. All I got was alot of gibberish codes. Help!
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Sorry, Mr. Kurtz, but I am unable to answer that question, unless you mean an EXternal hard drive. In that case, the answer is a definite "Yes," since I have an external hard drive connected to it for backups. I have had the computer for 2 or 3 months, and I am quite pleased with it. It was a snap to set up, and the fan is so quiet, you can barely hear it. Since it is Windows 7, I hope it lasts till 2020, when Microsoft is supposedly stopping support for Windows 7. I think you will like this computer.
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Thanks for your reply. I've had mine for a little over 2 weeks and I'm able to record everything off the DVR. I had to call Toshiba twice because I didn't know what I was doing. Their customer service was incredible!! I will definitely buy Toshiba products again.Just wondering... why would you use DVD+R disks? Am I correct that those cannot be used again? I've used DVD+RW.One more question... is there a way to delete shows that are on the DVD without formatting the disk? Like if I have watched some shows but not others and I want to record more.Thanks for your help Thanks for your reply. I've had mine for a little over 2 weeks and I'm able to record everything off the DVR. I had to call Toshiba twice because I didn't know what I was doing. Their customer service was incredible!! I will definitely buy Toshiba products again.Just wondering... why would you use DVD+R disks? Am I correct that those cannot be used again? I've used DVD+RW.One more question... is there a way to delete shows that are on the DVD without formatting the disk? Like if I have watched some shows but not others and I want to record more.Thanks for your help
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No.The cost of a 1TB drive is so low there is no need. With a 1TB drive you get weeks of high quality video before you can have it set to overwrite. From the web interface you can copy any important video captures to the hard drive of a remote PC.
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Just use the provided USB cable and connect it to any PC, ( Mac too , i believe ),... and it would work like a regular flash drive, browse the folders till you find the desired video. Usually my videos are time coded, so i know what video is that im looking for. You can time code your videos on your settings menu.
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It depends on how long you wish to save the footage. Generally the hard drive is adequate since once there is not an incident there is no need to save the footage and it can be written over. You can download footage of interest to the through the USB onto a flash drive, etc. The drive space can also be extended using the motion sensor feature in that only if there is motion the footage is recorded. I don't use this feature and the drive can store almost 30 days of footage. The only limitation is when it begins to record over old footage it erases the entire drive and begins again so old footage is lost.
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My subjective experience says yes. I gave the WD TV a try to compare it to the multiple WD TV Lives my family has solely for the purpose of playing content from directly attached USB drives. My experience thus far has been completely hassle free which is a vast improvement over the WD TV Live. I was worried when I attached the second USB drive to the WD TV and it didn't appear to be scanning for the content on the drive; I went to Videos just to see what was there and the content was already displayed (note that this drive had already been connected to a WD TV Live previously but it seemed to simply 'work' when I plugged it into the WD TV). My subjective experience says yes. I gave the WD TV a try to compare it to the multiple WD TV Lives my family has solely for the purpose of playing content from directly attached USB drives. My experience thus far has been completely hassle free which is a vast improvement over the WD TV Live. I was worried when I attached the second USB drive to the WD TV and it didn't appear to be scanning for the content on the drive; I went to Videos just to see what was there and the content was already displayed (note that this drive had already been connected to a WD TV Live previously but it seemed... » Read More My subjective experience says yes. I gave the WD TV a try to compare it to the multiple WD TV Lives my family has solely for the purpose of playing content from directly attached USB drives. My experience thus far has been completely hassle free which is a vast improvement over the WD TV Live. I was worried when I attached the second USB drive to the WD TV and it didn't appear to be scanning for the content on the drive; I went to Videos just to see what was there and the content was already displayed (note that this drive had already been connected to a WD TV Live previously but it seemed to simply 'work' when I plugged it into the WD TV). « Show Less
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Yes, I put movies on a thumb drive and watch from the tablet. I didn't have as much success connecting my portable HDD though. Given the low amount of storage on the tablet, I personally won't actually store video on it.
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You can watch the videos on your CPU you just need to open the file and view it in windows. This is an easy process just pull the memory stick out of the unit and plug and play with your laptop. The instructions are not that helpful you can figure out how the unit works by using the menu system on the screen. Take care.
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I have an external USB hard drive connected and it works fine. You can even play back files from the USB drive. I have a 1 TB external drive.
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This drive has a SATA interface which is usually an internal interface. It could work as an external drive if you have a drive enclosure that converts USB to SATA but even then it's the wrong drive for the application. This drive is meant to be used for recording and streaming video 24/7 and does not have a lot of the error detection and correction functions normally used on a computer drive.
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I use my external hard drive without problems, but my external DVD drive will not work properly -- keeps losing connection. Both are USB powered. My work around for the DVD drive is to attach it to my USB hub that has its own power cord.
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This is just a case and cable, so you can put a small hard drive in it. I is not a hard drive. 1TB is too large. It is made so you can take a small drive, from a laptop that no longer works, andturn the working hard drive into an external hard drive. Hope this helped you. this is not a hard drive, just a case for a small hard drive.
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I'm not sure if you can plug a external hard drive directly to the t.v., I usually connect my t.v. through my local network. For example I'll turn on my computer and have it set up through windows media player. Same thing with my music......
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You can view from laptop or download the videos your laptop. Also, you can view it on the unit's small screen.
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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-
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No. You can not watch videos as it does not have inbuilt media player. Though it has picture viewers and you can see images, movies can't. You will have to use external bluray or media player to watch movies.