DVD player w/USB NTFS format?

usaRaydar · Member Joined: 13 Nov 2007 Location: United States

I'm looking for a Dvix/Xvid compatible DVD player with USB which supports an NTFS hard drive. All I've found so far is FAT32 compatibility. Doesn't anybody make a model which keeps up with today's technology? FAT32 is so 90's. If not a DVD player perhaps a different suggestion. If I had was in charge of R&D I'd have one with CAT5, wifi lan, and USB2.0+NTFS support. Am I missing something somewhere?

What I'm wanting to do is use my external 500GB HD to play video files directly without having to burn DVDR's. I know there are a handful of DVD players I can get using USB+flash drives, but I'd rather take it a step farther if I'm going to buy a new unit.

thanks in advance.

Midzuki · **Banned** Joined: 25 Jun 2007 Location: UNREACHABLE

usaRaydar wrote:

Krispy Kritter · Member Joined: 31 Jul 2003 Location: St Louis, MO USA

That about sums it up. Especially when most people looking for a Divx player, want a cheap Divx player.
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jman98 · Member Joined: 08 Oct 2004 Location: Freedonia

And there are some strong implications that Microsoft's licensing terms for NTFS are expensive, given that Apple has read only support for the file system and so many DVD player manufacturers seem to only support FAT32. If not cost, it may be that Microsoft doesn't really want people outside of Microsoft using NTFS because they have some typical irrational Microsoft fear that the more people that know about Microsoft's secret stuff, the worse it will somehow be for Microsoft. They seem to prefer this odd situation we have now where people have reverse engineered support for NTFS and paid Microsoft nothing as a result. Anyway, I've never heard of DVD players supporting anything but FAT32 and that doesn't seem likely to change.

sub0 · Member Joined: 09 May 2007 Location: Canada