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Please Help( Device to play movies on TV)

BillyGoatGruff · 2010-01-30 11:18:54

Hi All. Was hoping that someone could please help me. I am looking for a device that i can either upload to or put an sd card into that will allow me to play avi. videos on my tv. I am looking for the cheapest way to do this. As my laptop only has hdmi and vga outputs and my tv only has scart and component imputs I cannot…

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BillyGoatGruff

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Hi All. Was hoping that someone could please help me. I am looking for a device that i can either upload to or put an sd card into that will allow me to play avi. videos on my tv. I am looking for the cheapest way to do this. As my laptop only has hdmi and vga outputs and my tv only has scart and component imputs I cannot use my laptop. (ie I have trouble finding cables)

Many thanks in advance. This is really starting to do my head in.

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#2 30-01-2010 11:34am

BillyGoatGruff

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Would an external video card work?

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#3 30-01-2010 11:40am

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Hi there- not really sure what types of movies files you want to play- but my husband uses a "multimedia player" to play his movies that he has downloaded on the internet - he just copies the files- and it plugs straight into the tv- its comes with a remote control. He bought it in PC World for E89 for 1 tb of memory....

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#4 30-01-2010 11:40am

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Hack an old Xbox with Xbox Media Centre, should find an old xbox for around €20, maybe You even have one. I have 2 of these in the house

Big thread here about it

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#5 30-01-2010 11:55am

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Thanks Ladylee and Pog. Ladylee, can you tell me what type of multimeadia player he bought and if possible does it play avi files. Only if it is easy to find out. Cheers.

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#6 30-01-2010 12:07pm

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I have a 1TB Network harddrive that I connect to via my Xbox 360.
But there are simpler options such as this:
http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=576020
Just use a USB memory stick to transfer the files
Bear in mind avi is only a container format. You need codec support for the codecs used to compress each particular file.

EDIT: you could use a 360 to stream from your laptop wirelessly but wireless can be a bit slow and the wireless adapter for the 360 is expensive if you want to avoid wires.

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#7 30-01-2010 12:53pm

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easons have a media player for €99 (or €129 depending on size) with hdmi out and scart out

like this one http://www.aristacomputers.com/Dane-Elec-SoSpeaky-1TB-SATA-HDMI-External-Hard-Disk-Drive-Multimedia-Player-Retail.html

Plays avis

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