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**Raylo** · 06-14-2009, 05:30 AM

Yes indeed some TVs with USB will play media through them (off thumb drives or HDs) if the firmware supports it. I just bought an interesting product. I had a POS laptop motherboard die and I wanted to get some data off the hard drive. While shopping for a typical USB enclosure I found a Thermaltake Black X 2.5"/3.5" ESATA HD docking station that connects to a PC via USB 2.0or ESATA. Could conect to TV via it's USB. This thing is pretty cool. Just pop any ESATA drive in there. They can supposedly even be hot swapped. So in theory I could just dump GBs of media from my network storage onto a one or more HDs and connect to TV and off I go. Or even have 2 of them, one connected to TV and one to network to save from having to move it. It would take only a couple of seconds to pop a HD out of the one on the network, walk over and pop it into the one at the TV. They are on sale at Worst Buy for $45... cheap enough to get 2.

06-14-2009, 05:30 AM	#8 (permalink)
Raylo TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Maryland, USA Posts: 525 OS: XP Desktop, Vista HP Notebook, XP Notebook	Re: Playing Media Files Through TV Yes indeed some TVs with USB will play media through them (off thumb drives or HDs) if the firmware supports it. I just bought an interesting product. I had a POS laptop motherboard die and I wanted to get some data off the hard drive. While shopping for a typical USB enclosure I found a Thermaltake Black X 2.5"/3.5" ESATA HD docking station that connects to a PC via USB 2.0or ESATA. Could conect to TV via it's USB. This thing is pretty cool. Just pop any ESATA drive in there. They can supposedly even be hot swapped. So in theory I could just dump GBs of media from my network storage onto a one or more HDs and connect to TV and off I go. Or even have 2 of them, one connected to TV and one to network to save from having to move it. It would take only a couple of seconds to pop a HD out of the one on the network, walk over and pop it into the one at the TV. They are on sale at Worst Buy for $45... cheap enough to get 2.