Watch Movies On Tv From External Hard Drive

Many modern tvs even let you skip the requirement for a computer and directly connect an external hard drive to watch movies on your tv.

Watch movies on tv from external hard drive. Have hundreds of movies on an external hard drive and i am sick of making dvds. Elias plastiras pc world on 14 september 2020 12 32. I have a bunch of movies on my computer and was wondering if i can put then on my external hdd and watch them on my xbox.

Yes offcourse you can play it but do check what is the maximum storage your tv supports. It s a good option especially in situations cough unsupervised kids cough where streaming is problematic and you d like to keep tighter control of what s on the screen. These players they have a screen so you can carry them and watch movies while travelling and you can connect them to tv to watch movies on your tv.

Id rather do it this way then having to hook my laptop up to my tv to watch them since my xbox is already there. You just have to format the drive into ntfs fat or fat32. There has to be something to plug it into and it will play onto the tv.

But i have seen that many tvs dont support usb playing few of the sony and local tvs were having issues so talk to customer care of your brand. If your hdtv doesn t support to plug your external hard drive directly you may need to use wd tv box or other hd media player hdmi cable if it s available or plug your external hard drive to your mac or pc and hook up the mac to hdtv and play the movies on the hdtv set through your mac. Portable external hard drives aren t built to be hooked up to power all the time.

Don t expect every external hard drive to play nice with your smart tv right out the gate. They are built to be something you plug in copy data to and turn off again. Readily accessible whenever someone wants to call up a song or video.

I read about a few dvd players with usb ports but then they got all technical with the descriptions and lost me. Not all external hard drives will work properly when connected to a tv s usb port. Some sets will automatically play the movies on the external hard drive though.