What's the best way to play video files on a TV?
QuadyTheTurnip
Icrontian
So, I used to just hook up my laptop to the TV when I wanted to play stuff on it (via an S-Video + Headphone to RCA cable) which worked excellently. Sadly, my laptop is dead and gone, so that doesn't work anymore.
What options do I have? I have a desktop now, but I largely do the video file to tv hookups when I'm visiting my family, and I don't want to have to haul my desktop half-way across the country just for this (plus, it doesn't have S-video).
My family's TV just has RCA inputs, and their DVD player doesn't have any fancy USB inputs or anything like that. The do have a Wii, and I also have an external hard drive.
I suppose I could always just burn stuff to DVD, but that's time consuming and annoying, so I'm hoping there's some other way to do this. Any help? I'm trying to do this as cheaply as possible, so most of the hard drive-TV boxes are out (as they cost around $200 as far as I can tell). I'm trying to see if I can do this for less than $50 if possible.
Thanks!
What options do I have? I have a desktop now, but I largely do the video file to tv hookups when I'm visiting my family, and I don't want to have to haul my desktop half-way across the country just for this (plus, it doesn't have S-video).
My family's TV just has RCA inputs, and their DVD player doesn't have any fancy USB inputs or anything like that. The do have a Wii, and I also have an external hard drive.
I suppose I could always just burn stuff to DVD, but that's time consuming and annoying, so I'm hoping there's some other way to do this. Any help? I'm trying to do this as cheaply as possible, so most of the hard drive-TV boxes are out (as they cost around $200 as far as I can tell). I'm trying to see if I can do this for less than $50 if possible.
Thanks!
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Otherwise, these are just up from your budget but might be a great way to get what you want. Someone got me this thing - http://www.mvixusa.com/product/mv-2500u - for xmas last year and while it's a bit odd to work with, it's nice for loading up some of my old favorite viddy things what are unavail or cumbersome to bring on traditional medias, and bringing along for traveling to play on hotel screens and family's televisions.
A few I found, never used them, but you can take the idea and search from here:
http://www.amazon.com/Micca-Portable-Digital-Player-2-5-Inch/dp/B002XVBAKI/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1275802911&sr=8-2
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16882438002R
http://www.axiontech.com/prdt.php?item=89807
Those boxes are all pretty much exactly what I was looking for! Thanks!