Supports thumb drives (so you can take all that stuff off your hard drive and play it on the player without burning it or setting up a stream)

Both usb drive and netflix seem to overheat (?) it

I streams media from Hard drives

This Blue-ray player is great for playing video files from my USB Hard drives

Reformatted the drive to see if the format was the issue, NO LUCK!

You can plug in a portable hard drive (my use for it) and view pictures & movies that you may have on that drive

So far, it has done everything that I wanted it to do: play DVD-R's, play movies off my external hard drive and view pictures

USB playback is much faster than disk with blue-ray, even with USB hard drive

One feature that I like is that you can hook a USB hard drive to it and play VOB video files

You can plug in a portable hard drive (my use for it) and view pictures & movies that you may have on that drive

When accessing your USB external Hard Drive, you can play movies or watch pictures, but note that the media player will only remember your specific movie spot when the movie stays selected.

No wifi networking ability2) Could not get a straight answer regarding whether formats such as .avi and .mkv were supported when burned to a disk, or if they only played off a hard drive or USB stick.#2 was going to be a deal-breaker, so it was the first thing I tested

I also can hook this up to my 1 TB (terabyte) external hard drive and play movies off of it.

Supports thumb drives (so you can take all that stuff off your hard drive and play it on the player without burning it or setting up a stream)

You can also hook up an External hard drive or USB drive full of media files and it will play them

It has a USB port and accepts connection to various external flash cards or hard drives and so far has played most formats (avi, mkv, etc.) that we have thrown at it

I can keep a USB hard drive loaded with my favorite videos and plug it into this player and watch them whenever I like, without having to go find the DVDs and constantly change discs

Unzip file to your hard drive...open the

The USB port on the front allows me to play just about any files on a USB drive or external hard drive