Hi I need the ability to take 500 + movie files to a friends and relatives will this unit work as well with there computers
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I have 8 3TB WD-Red Sata drives in my QNAP NAS and store 500+ movies as VOB files and also converted to MP4...I have roughly 18 TB of space and it is around half full. The VOB files play on computers with PowerDVD, while I can use DNLA to watch the MP4's which I send to my PS3 and HDMI to my TV. Yes, you can do it, it's how you do it that counts. My smart TV's don't play MP4's or VOB's by themselves. Media Player will also stream video, but I don't use it.
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You can share files easily with anyone inside or outside your home.Mine is sharing photos, documents and backups.It can be accessed around the world on Windows computers, android phones/tablets and iPads/iPhones.Once setup, it is all synchronizes automatically no matter where a person is located.I travel a lot and bought this specifically to make sure I could get my files from anywhere.Works great, I am very happy with the product and manufacturer support.
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You can share files easily with anyone inside or outside your home. Mine is sharing photos, documents and backups. It can be accessed around the world on Windows computers, android phones/tablets and iPads/iPhones. Once setup, it is all synchronizes automatically no matter where a person is located. I travel a lot and bought this specifically to make sure I could get my files from anywhere. Works great, I am very happy with the product and manufacturer support.
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Yes. Once you install drives into the QNAP TS-869 Pro, set them up, copy your files to it and set up accounts for your friends and family, they can connect to it directly over the Internet and download whatever you give them permission to download from it.
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Yes. Definitely. I have successfully transferred a number of photos, music, and movies to the MICCA over the LAN; however, it doesn't play well with HD's over 2TB.
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I divide my files on the computer. I have never tried from the unit itself. I am not familiar with the other unit you mentioned.
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In most cases yes, but I have only used a limited group of old movie tapes that were already adapted to a usb input from my video camera equipment. My suggestion is that equipment like this is hard to say universally that it will work on every system, but it pretty basic in its operation as well as inexpensive, and worth a try if this is the application you are seeking.
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It is kind of overkill for that purpose. You can get a cheap usb 2.0 or SD card for half the price and it would be fine for that purpose. It is like buying a Ferrari to go grocery shopping.
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Yes, Sort of. I would'nt suggest this device for movies. But generally as a sharing device for music and other files it does a pretty decent job for the price.
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Yes you can. The USB interface works quite well. I've tried AVI and MP4 files without issue.
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I think it is possible... but the movie video file shouldn't be so big.. 1gb is ok.. more than 4gb probably doesn't work.
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I am not sure,but it should. It is just not good for large data transfer especially large movies. But for mp3, WMA songs, photos... should be OK.
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Clever Girl....THAT would be a nice capability. And with 64 Gig thumb drives, it sure would be possible......THIS device is just a link/bridge/translator that gets the video on your computer to manipulate with stand-alone imaging software. Hint....LOTS of RAM and Win 7, at least, to make this smooth and efficient.
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Yes it will work. If using an external hard drive, you may have to format to enfat
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I went with the Brite-View CinemaTube instead and I am very happy with it. The only problem is you can't use the bittorrent feature with an HFS+ drive. But that's a non-issue for me. Otherwise it works great. And with the new firmware due out any day now you will be able to copy files from you mac to the HD connected to the CinemaTube. I haven't yet used the streaming but it's a cool feature th Asus doesn't have. I use it to play avi and mkv files mostly. Cool device and mac compatible. Hope this helps.
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The software requires a separate drive letter for video storage. I have used it with a separate hard drive. I do not know if it will work with one hard drive which has been partitioned into 2 drive letters.
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Not sure here. My belief is that the software that comes with it is the shareware version - but I thought the limit was 500 llines? Best regards, John
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You can store tv shows and photos along with movies on the unit. However, you are going to have to do somethings for the tv shows and the movies to fit to the unit. If you use media center to record tv shows and movies then the file format will be too big to simply transfer via drag and drop. This will force you to convert the files and then drag and drop. Overall I have a WD but not one of 500GB but I love it because I have a laptop without alot of space on the HDD. This stores all of my files (movies, tv shows, music, photos, and standard files). Works great I have had mine for 5 months now.
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Yes you could but one has to ponder how much space is available. I'd rather use a portable USB3 drive off one of the newer NUC's as we are using. Keep the C w/ os & maybe b/up partition on the internal drive as clean as possible. Keeps things EXTREMELY fast. You can then take that USB3 portable "movie" drive with you "on the road". We record HD and analog productions using Hauppage encoders and need portability.
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Yes, works very well. We've made several movies and uploaded them to facebook with no problems.