Will my blu ray player be able to play videos from an external hard drive?

John

http://www.dixons.co.uk/gbuk/samsung-bd-d6500-3d-blu-ray-player-10096437-pdt.html

That is the blu ray player I got yesterday and I can play videos on it from a memory stick but I don't know if it will play them from an external hard drive. It says in the product description it can but I don't see how it would be powerful enough to power the hard drive
I'll probably also have to format it in fat32

Answer
Modern hard drives are powered from USB, like almost all WD Passport Essential devices. The question is, whether the player supports ntfs and/or ext3/ext4 filesystems, which is required for storing files over 4 gigabytes, or just fat32, which is pretty much limited in size and maximum file size.

Limitations of FAT32: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/184006 For some reason I think this player is even more limited, since it has not too much RAM installed. I've seen DVD players which could use a stick, but limited to FAT32 and 2 gigabytes.

Toshiba External Hard Drive Question?

Q. I just got a 1TB Toshiba external hard drive, and I put all of my .avi movies along with all my music and photos on it. It works fine on my computer and other computers, but I tried to connect it, through a USB port, to my parents Sony Blu-Ray player and it said that it was 'not supported'. Is there any way to have it recognize the hard drive at all? I've read a lot of forums that said the .avi movie files cannot be seen, but is there any way to view the photos or music? If not, it's no big, I can hook up my computer to my tv at my house, but I was hoping to share movies I made and photos with my family before I went back there. Any help at all is appriciated.

Answer
Sony Blu-Ray player support USB port, so u can convert your .avi video to M2TS or or other Sony Blu-Ray player compatible formats for enjoying. I suggest u use foxreal video converter to solve this problem. I have used this software. It can convert between various of formats with excellent output quality. You can try it.
I know Sony Blu-Ray player support JPEG image format. You can convert it.
I help you find foxreal video converter download link. Holp it helps u.

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