A2H GO
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Looking at getting the in-laws something for Christmas whereby they can watch films on their TV off a USB pen. They've got a Sony Bravia TV but it doesn't have USB support so will have to be a box of some sort that connects via HDMI, what's the best option? Don't need anything fancy that streams or has a million channels, they've already got Sky.
They've also asked about getting some iPod speakers in the range of £40-50, there's so much choice I don't even know where to start, any recommendations?
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_Allan_
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One of these or the slightly cheaper 2 version.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sumvision-Cyclone-Adapter-Internal-Storage/dp/B0073H7LKA/ref=sr_1_1?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1385735612&sr=1-1&keywords=sumvision+cyclone+3
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cyclone-Micro-MultiMedia-Player-Adaptor/dp/B00534L3B8/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1385735757&sr=1-1&keywords=sumvision+cyclone+Micro+2%2B
Had one for awhile with no issues. Played most files off a USB stick.
[Edited on 29-11-2013 by _Allan_]
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A2H GO
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 Cool, so the top one has it's own internal storage meaning you just put the films on the box itself and not a separate USB pen? The USB port seems to be a mini-usb, not sure that's much good as we'll literally be handing them a usb pen with the media on, which they'll them have to transfer to their laptop and then over to the box.
The bottom one looks good though as it seems to have a full USB port. Nice one.
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richardworrall
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i have the bottom one, plays everything on my HDD
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John
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quote:
I tested this device on a LG 42" (42LG70YD) TV and a Acer 19" pc monitor (P193w, with hdmi to vga adapter)
with a Kingson Datatraveler 8gig & 16gig pen drive/memory stick
the files I tested :
Battle Los Angeles - Full blue ray 1080p into MKV 7.2 gig file.
Inception - blue-ray compressed 720p into a MP4 3.4 gig file.
Wall-e - blue ray compressed 720P into a MKV x264 699mb file.
Horrible Bosses - DVDrip 700mb AVI file.
Audio files in MP3,WMV,FLAC,OGG
Picture files in JPG,PNG,GIF
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A2H GO
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Too quick I found the info but you posted before I could delete my post.
[Edited on 03-12-2013 by A2H GO]
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