[By contrast, I love my primary Blu-ray player, an LG BD690 3D Wireless Network Blu-ray Disc Player with Smart TV and 250GB Hard Drive, purchased here on Amazon, which finally got an excellent YouTube interface after several software updates

Network Drive support:This uses Samba

I would have to restart my blu ray player again to see my hard drive.

it doesn't work with Playon DLNA server, needs a special, expensive camera for Skype, doesn't recognize a current Seagate external drive and has limited functionality in Viera.

Thumb drive and portable hard drive,,

Unfortunately, my travel USB drive which was about a 150 Gigabyte in size requires power since it's internally a small hard drive and not solid state.

The only issue I had was when I tried to connect to my DLNA server it will sometimes see my hard drive

However accessing and playing content from an external hard drive was my main goal.

(I'll put their entire music collection on a USB flash drive and leave it plugged into the back so they can always access their music without having to see the ugly USB flash drive sticking out the front.)

Thumb drive and portable hard drive,,

Rip your movies to a hard drive and connect it to your network, or hang it off your computer.

Still, I have some large sticks, and when using my external powered drives, this will support the 1 and 2 Terra byte drives I have for storing files

Unfortunately, the drive died after a little over five weeks

Using a USB hard drive or flash

Yup this baby has a noisy-drive sweet-spot at the same place on every flick we own.

Can watch saved video files from external hard drive nicely (only issue is some MP4 files wont load and some will

Yup this baby has a noisy-drive sweet-spot at the same place on every flick we own.

this item does not read my movies in my hard drives properly...this is not good enough in scanning external devices ie

You can also connect an external USB hard drive or USB thumb drive for accessing photos and video files

Moving through menus like Audio->USB takes you to the same place as Movies -> USB, and they both simply access the connected USB hard drive

There's also a mini usb port which allows for external hard drive connections, a bonus I wasn't prepared for

The external hard drive hookup by USB is a great feature, allowing my to do a slide show of all my photos I have stored over the years

3-D is great as well and it's slim enough to fit anywhere

This is by far one of the best 3-D blu-ray players I have ever used.

Optical disc playback is good, no problems even though I use a lot of DVD-/+ R and RW discs, as well as BD-R and RE, both single and double layer

Press Win button + r , type cmd, type ipconfig

The guy won't budge and refused to let me talk to a supervisor or more knowledgeable rep, even after I threatened to return the player to Amazon - he couldn't care less!I was getting ready to return the player, but then I read a negative review on Amazon about this particular problem and followed the reviewer suggestion; adjusted the A/V settings and the sync corrected itself

"My Favorite Remote" Advanced Universal Remote Control for up to 18 A/V Components which is nice because it's easier than keeping track of remotes for all of our devices