With the USB port, does that mean I can connect the player to my computer to watch Blu-Rays on there?
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I've only used the USB port to play moviesin different formats and works great
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I don't see any reason why not. The distinguishing item about this player is it's ability to play DVD's from any region. Other than this and it's 3D capability, it's a regular blue-ray DVD player. You won't be able to see 3D movies on your computer because it requires a 3D television and glasses.
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The Philips BDP-2100 Blu-Ray player requires a HDMI cable and a HDMI port to connect. If you have a HD TV, then you should have an HDMI input port. I connected the Philips Blu-Ray player to my LG HD TV via my Yamaha AV receiver (it has multiple HDMI in ports and one HDMI out port). UK DVDs look great!
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sorry, can't assist. I use it to write blu-rays from my PC,, have never needed to try and play using it, have a blu-ray player for that.
635371
All I know to say is try it. It works with USB to hook to my computer. And I can put a DVD or CD into the computer and play it. I don't have an external drive.
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No. The TV cannot decode a Blu-Ray (or DVD) disk. You must either connect a stand-alone player or Blu-Ray capable PC to read and decode the disk and output the signal to the HDMI port on the tv. To confirm, I plugged my external USB optical drive into the USB port and was unable to read the disk at all.The USB port is intended to read and decode media files - typically avi, mp3, mp4 and mkv directly from a flash or laptop hard drive. This also works for 3d files in the side-by-side or over-under formats.
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Yes, although I never used it. The directions stated that you can play movies from the usb port.
1967360
Assuming your blu ray player has, in addition to its HDMI port, component jacks as well I would think so.
59778
Yes, it reads a DVDRW data disc just fine with .mp4 files, however if they are high-def files, it hick-ups periodically, due to the transfer rate, these should be on a blu-ray, but I don't have a BD burner yet. Haven't tried the USB yet, but it should read it also. Blu-rays are flawless, netflix is too, but shearching from the tv menu is lame, better to "pair" with your laptop, etc, and search from it, while playing through the tv.
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Yes, just a connection from blu-ray player to TV and wireless or wired connection to your internet
1203025
I just plugged my amazon fire into the DVD port of the receiver. It works fine that way. I still have the BVD port available for the Blue Ray player.
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I'm not sure what you're asking, as they require different connections. If you're speaking about a Blu-Ray Player that you connect to your TV, which has USB ports in its rear, then no. You require drivers for this product's proper function. If you're referring to a blu-ray player on your PC, then the answer remains: No but it will allow you to download the videos and updates you would need normally since it'd function through your pc. Hopefully this Helps, Sunny
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No you can't. This device only handles old style analog coaxial TV signals. Your Blu-ray players audio output is a digital coaxial output.
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You need the software to play the unit. The software does not work on my machine. I even had a IT guy come install and it still had error when trying to play Blu Ray.
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Yes. My LG Blu-Ray player will also play those files. I just remove the USB stick from the iView and plug it into my LG Blu-Ray player at at another TV. The iView allows you to format your USB stick (or USB hard drive) in the NTFS format so files can be larger than 4GB. The current LG Blu-Ray players can also utilize the NTFS format. There's lots of freeware out there that will let you snip segments from the files that you want to keep without re-encoding. They just cut out the segments you don't want and join them into one *.mts. It's fast.
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I cannot specifically say that a "USB Player" will be recognized. I plugged in a thumb drive and it worked. I have also plugged in an external hard drive through a "Blac X" (USB) and it works flawlessly. I assume that any standard USB device will be recognized and therefore should work. I read the first comment about lousy product and service. That has not been my experience. I emailed a question about using thumbnail displays and received a prompt reply the following day that addressed, and answered, my specific question - it was not a generic automated response.
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I don't think there is a blu-ray player you can plug a computer into to stream movies. Since you can plug your computer into a TV set that has a VGA input, you can stream from your computer to the TV. Alternatively you can encode your movies into AVI and put those files on an external USB disk drive then plug the drive into the blue ray player and stream from that.
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The USB port only plays music (I believe in mp3 format) and pictures (in jpg). Movies don't work, unfortunately.