Blu-ray with USB?

[michalsz2]

Hello
, I have USB Hard drive (NTFS) with bunch of movies in different formats.
Base on your experience, which player you thing works the best with most popular video formats?

Im in USA.
Mike

[seigneur_rayden]

Hello Mike and welcome to the forum.
Quick housekeeping: the spelling is Blu-ray not BlueRay.
Now to your question: I would say PS3 but as far as I know, the PS3 will only read Fat32 formatted hard drive.
I don't know of any player that will read various video format beside Mpeg and AVC. Maybe someone else can chime in.

[RiseDarthVader]

I smell a pirate.

[BohemianGraham]

Originally Posted by RiseDarthVader

I smell a pirate.

Could also be someone who downloaded digital copies from iTunes, rather than buying a physical copy, WMP, and several of the other pay-for-video sites. Also, maybe they PVR'ed a few programs with their computer, and put it on the HDD because they ran out of room on the computer. Some of it could also be home video from their camcorder, from a back-up. Maybe they also made back-ups of their physical media, and this is for another room in the house.

There are plenty of reasons as to why someone would have multiple video formats on a HDD that aren't because of pirating. I think it's a bit insulting to automatically assume that anyone who wants to use an USB device with a blu-ray player pirated the films. Also, if you're going on grammar and spelling of the poster, that's a bit mean too.

[seigneur_rayden]

Originally Posted by BohemianGraham

Could also be someone who downloaded digital copies from iTunes, rather than buying a physical copy, WMP, and several of the other pay-for-video sites. Also, maybe they PVR'ed a few programs with their computer, and put it on the HDD because they ran out of room on the computer. Some of it could also be home video from their camcorder, from a back-up. Maybe they also made back-ups of their physical media, and this is for another room in the house.

There are plenty of reasons as to why someone would have multiple video formats on a HDD that aren't because of pirating. I think it's a bit insulting to automatically assume that anyone who wants to use an USB device with a blu-ray player pirated the films. Also, if you're going on grammar and spelling of the poster, that's a bit mean too.

What is mean about it? He made a mistake and I taught him the right spelling. What is wrong about that?
The mean thing is not to share knowledge and leave people in the dark.

[BohemianGraham]

Originally Posted by seigneur_rayden

What is mean about it? He made a mistake and I taught him the right spelling. What is wrong about that?
The mean thing is not to share knowledge and leave people in the dark.

Oh! I'm sorry, I wasn't refering to your post! I meant RiseDarthVader's post, and made the assumption that he thought the guy was a pirate based on the fact he had multipe formats on a drive, and probably because his grammar wasn't the greatest. My bad.

[lutefisk69]

The spelling thing goes back to the early days of this forum. So many people did the Blue spelling you did have to correct them. I don't think it is mean to correct the spelling of the format, it is the name of the forum afterall.

As for the OP: PS3 will play most formats, but not MKV. The Oppo's will play just about everything as far as I can tell. I don't see a searchable field for what you are looking for, but the playback video is listed on the players specification on the site.

[seigneur_rayden]

Originally Posted by BohemianGraham

Oh! I'm sorry, I wasn't refering to your post! I meant RiseDarthVader's post, and made the assumption that he thought the guy was a pirate based on the fact he had multipe formats on a drive, and probably because his grammar wasn't the greatest. My bad.

Got U buddy. It's all good.

[HDTV1080P]

The OPPO BDP-93 and BDP-95 will read NTFS USB and E-SATA hard drives as long as the external hard drive has its own seperate power supply. Most Blu-ray players only read FAT32 and FAT file formats, it’s somewhat rare to have NTFS support. The OPPO models mentioned above allow a total of 3 hard drives connected at once (2 USB hard drives and 1 E-SATA).

[lacubs]

Originally Posted by lutefisk69

The spelling thing goes back to the early days of this forum. So many people did the Blue spelling you did have to correct them. I don't think it is mean to correct the spelling of the format, it is the name of the forum afterall.

As for the OP: PS3 will play most formats, but not MKV. The Oppo's will play just about everything as far as I can tell. I don't see a searchable field for what you are looking for, but the playback video is listed on the players specification on the site.

unfortunately the PS3 will not play them format anymore, they had added copyright protection

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