Hayashi

Does anyone know of a double din deck with USB input that you can plug in a USB hard drive and play movies off of it? I was looking at the new kenwood one but after an email to them I was told its only possible to play MP3s from the USB hard drive. Any ideas?

Thanks

exige

A carputer would probably be the way to go. I'm not aware of any head units that can play movies from a USB input. Nifty idea though.

zzzBrett

Yes, as exige said, carputer would be the best way. Take a look at my thread for some more info.

https://www.scionlife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=215723

Hayashi

my original plan was to do a carputer and I actually have all the parts and its half done. I've since changed my mind and am going to wait until I can either get a slim blu-ray drive or until the new mac mini's come with blu-ray drives. So I wanted something temporary that I could have so I didn't have lug DVDs around and just put in my portable hard drive.

exige

PS3 on a carputer would be pretty tight ;)

Hayashi

If anyone is interested I did find that the new pioneer deck should play movies from a SD card or a USB hard drive/thumb drive.

To bad the screen is so small =(

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13746_7...ml?tag=keyword

Cabana

alpine has USB in

Hayashi

a lot of them have USB in but only play music off of a USB drive. They will only play movies off a iPod. Do you know if the alpine one plays movies off a usb drive? from what I read it doesn't.

Cabana

oh sorry, read it wrong...I'm not sure, but the new Alpine W505 supports Divx. The manual on their site doesn't work so it's hard to tell. http://www.alpine-usa.com/US-en/supp...lname=iva-w505

Hayashi

I could be getting them mixed up with the Kenwood one but from what I remember it only decodes Divx from a CD or DVD.

Cabana

that could be, I don't know