To play a USB disk (without a computer)

To play a USB disk (without a computer)

Hello

I was wondering: I have seen portable DVD players that can play
files from an USB disk. I suppose there are also home DVD players
with that feature ?

And what about Home Theatre amplifiers/receivers ? Since those can be
connected to a TV they already can show menus, etc, to navigate the files.
So they only need an USB connector and the software.

Two things I would like in one:

- being able to effectively use a big disk (500GB now (that is only ~100
euros now), 1 TeraByte or more in a year or so). Meaning, no stupid
limits on the number of files or folders and a navigation interface
that can find what one wants to play without needing hundreds of
clicks.

- being able to play flac files (and other formats).

Any interesting models ?

This sort of thing can be an interesting alternative to systems that use a
PC server to hold the files and network players like the slimdevices:

http :// www .slimdevices,com /

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Re: To play a USB disk (without a computer)

"Rui Pedro Mendes Salgueiro" <rps@koala.mat.uc.pt> wrote in
message news:fhdedk02tv7@news2.newsguy,com
> Hello
>
> I was wondering: I have seen portable DVD players that
> can play files from an USB disk. I suppose there are also home DVD
> players with that feature ?

Philips DVP5982/37 DVD Player

http :// www .p4c.philips,com /files/d/dvp5982_37/dvp5982_37_pss_aen.pdf