Can I watch all my movies and TV shows right off the external HDD?
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Yes Harriet. As long as you have a television with USB ports you can do so. I watch movies I Watch movies in this way all the time on my Samsung tv. It is very convenient. Plug in the External drive and when it appears choose the video folder and your movies and shows will appear. Choose one, press enter on TV remote and you are go to go. Cheers
1265758
Yes ,I am watching video from hard drive. Samsung tablet .Plays great. So long as you have right format on videos
2125199
Yes pretty much anything USB or SD will work. However I tried hooking up my external hard drive and it took so long to load I gave up. Although my HD is like 400gb so that's most likely why. But I've never had issues putting like 20 movies on a flash drive and playing them. Watch out for the file type tho, MKV files won't work
1743343
You can use something like ES File Explorer to access the files on the external drive but I don't think you will be able to install any apps to it. But if you have your movies and music on the external then that might give you the room you need on the internal.
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.
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.
1640048
No, only the internet connections from your hard drive. The previous response sounded about right. You need an external hard drive or drive C but that will work. I don't care that it doesn't access my entire Hard Drive because I only use the DVD player for the 55" Wide Screen RCA LED TV with all the bells and whistles. I've got a 27" wide screen ASUS Monitor connected to my laptop, and that's enough satisfaction for me. TV for me isn't meant to mess with my entire hard drive, just entertainment and with that, it's fantastic. Certified Life Coach
97944
Yes. The drive works with TV, but will loose signal from file at random intervals while watching a video. This happened to me every time I tried watching a video.
159647
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.
820156
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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In theory, yes. The PS3 can play media files from an external HDD, just like from a thumb drive. If your TV can play media from a thumb drive, it should also be able to play media from one of these.According to various forums, you should put files in the appropriate folders on an external drive: "Photo", "Music", "Video". You also MUST format the drive as FAT32, not as exFAT or NTFS.
1212243
Yep! I would suggest choosing the program to play it through instead of letting it autoplay, but it has a disk drive.
314092
You can also plug a USB HDD in and do a content drag and drop from explorer, or use something like the free versions of EASUS, Paragon, Free sync etc., set up a back up and let it run overnight, but you have to be willing to become an active participant in your data backup routine, at least once. The plus is that you can back up what's important to you and not the fluff that might accumulate like TV shows you aren't going to watch again.
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.
2063544
I watch movies regularly. It creates icons on your desktop and in your file explorer that allow you to treat it just like a local drive. You can't watch movies through the backup interface though.
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Its fast and easy to play content from an external HDD with the WD TV Live. I've other issues with it but if this is your purpose to have one: yes, it's a good equipment using a USB 3.0 connection. I did not use no USB 2.0 external HDD, then, for this I can't help you.
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If the tv has hdmi and the computer has mini dvi then yes you can view HD movies.