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hard drive enclosure with scart connection!

  • 01-03-2009 6:32pm
    #1
    eurotrotter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,073 ✭✭✭


    hey gang
    hope ye all had a great wkd
    i have a few hard drives at home and im looking to be able to bring my hard drive down to the tv downstairs in the living room and watch a couple of movies.
    i was in college there recently and i seen this random fella come in with a hard drive ith a 500gb hard drive, and i seen a few play/pause/ff/rw buttons on it AND a scart connection on it.
    so i was oping id be able to buy an enclosure just like it.
    any ideas where id find a good cheap one?
    it needs to be mac compatible obviously enough!

    thanks for readin,
    Ed


Comments

  • #2
    PCPhoto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,584 ✭✭✭PCPhoto


    more than likely the HDD which is in Peats....its a multi media Hard disk (500GB and 1TB options)

    you can get the 1TB Pro which gives you a remote - but doesnt have a scart connection.


  • #3
    mathew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭mathew


    The enclosure wouldnt be too cheap.. It'd need to have a video processor in it, as well as funcionality to view the files and seclect one...
    Its not just a matter of an enclosure with a scart connection on it..

    I dont even know is such enclosures are available..
    You'd be best to hook a laptop up to the screen via VGA or something...
    You can get VGA to Composite video connectors fairly cheap. Got one myself on deal exteme a while back.

    If you want to be able to play directly from a hard drive youll have to invest in on of the ones PCPhoto was talking about..
    One appears on ibood every now and then..


  • #4
    thecommander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭thecommander


    Popcorn Hour is one sort of media hd playback unit.


  • #5
    Diarmuid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭Diarmuid


    thecommander wrote: »
    Popcorn Hour is one sort of media hd playback unit.

    A friend has this and he says it's great. I've been kinda interested in getting one for a while but haven't got around to it yet. Seems there is a stock issue with it because it's so popular. It's got its own bittorrent client built in! Connected to your network on one side and to your HDMI TV input on the other.


  • #6
    AlanD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,494 ✭✭✭AlanD


    or Western Digitals WD TV looks like great value - http://www.pixmania.ie/ie/uk/1778320/art/western-digital/wd-hd-tv-media-player-wit.html

    ... and gets great reviews too....it's 1080p too.


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