Best way to watch movies while dry camping
DH and I are planning our LONGEST ever dry camping adventure at Cades Cove TN in the Smokies just after Thanksgiving...8 NIGHTS! I believe our previous record was 5 nights. We have been doing this fo...
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Salvo wrote:
I'm sure that works fine. That's how my setup works. My usb-connected hard drive feeds the WD Live converter. The converter converts the movie format into streaming video.
USB bandwidth is about 220 M bit/s
HD TV bandwidth is about 1 G bit/s
It's impossible to stream HD video using usb.
Sal
Sal,
It looks like USB 3.0 is plenty fast enough. I'm just not sure what my son's setup is. It sure would be nice if a hard drive (or better still, a super-high capacity stick) full of HD movies could be plugged into the side of an RV's LED flat screen TV that would then read/convert the stick contents directly for viewing.
FWIW, here's some USB 3.0 info:
http://www.everythingusb.com/superspeed-usb.html#applications
