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Jezza_Belle  4 stars
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I found that it had a USB input, I figured it would be fairly useless, but I plugged in my external drive just to see, and what do you know... it'll play movies, music, and I can view my pictures that are on there. I haven't tried other file types... but now I'm going to get another drive to dedicate to my movie collection.

 

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winga  4 stars
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TV's now typically have a built in media player. How old is your TV?
Jezza_Belle  4 stars
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winga posted:

TV's now typically have a built in media player. How old is your TV?



I got it in August I think.

 

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Cuttlery  4 stars
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Dont all TV's come with that now? Or just hookups so you can plug your PC straight into it.

 

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Jezza_Belle  4 stars
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Cuttlery posted:

Dont all TV's come with that now? Or just hookups so you can plug your PC straight into it.



hooking up a PC vs just a hard drive are really totally different things.

 

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Banelord_FF  2 stars
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TVs come with all kinda of useless crap now.
Network connection, old A/V connections, USB ports, SD and CF card slots, and a bunch of other stuff.

 

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Cuttlery  4 stars
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Jezza_Belle posted:

Cuttlery posted:

Dont all TV's come with that now? Or just hookups so you can plug your PC straight into it.



hooking up a PC vs just a hard drive are really totally different things.



Why? If I can hook up a PC to my TV via HDMI why is that any different than a HD... I could just plug the HD into my pc and hook that up to my TV via HDMI and it would work the same way wouldnt it?

 

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Jezza_Belle  4 stars
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Cuttlery posted:

Jezza_Belle posted:

Cuttlery posted:

Dont all TV's come with that now? Or just hookups so you can plug your PC straight into it.



hooking up a PC vs just a hard drive are really totally different things.



Why? If I can hook up a PC to my TV via HDMI why is that any different than a HD... I could just plug the HD into my pc and hook that up to my TV via HDMI and it would work the same way wouldnt it?



Hooking up a PC to your TV is just using the TV as a monitor, connecting a HD via usb directly to the TV and being able to watch the movies contained takes the PC out of the loop.

So I can use my laptop to talk to you freaks and watch a movie at the same time.

 

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Cuttlery  4 stars
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Cant you just set up your TV as a dual monitor and talk to us at the same time?

 

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Jezza_Belle  4 stars
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Cuttlery posted:

Cant you just set up your TV as a dual monitor and talk to us at the same time?



I can't sit that close to my TV and still have vision... didn't your mom ever tell you not to sit so close?

 

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