Best DVD player iwth USB

Gotta agree with thevortex here. Btw, for the DIY folks out there, you can may be try this one...

Caveat: I have not tried or even seen if this works

Theoretically true.
Unfortunately no so true in practice. My friends has a FreeAgent portable which does not work with his Oppo even though it is formatted with FAT.
No harm in trying before buying.

The problem seems not to be partition format, but the power required to drive the drive. The USB has enough to power a pen drive but not a hard disk. In some forums, people are reporting success with externally powered hard disks though!

Regards,
Prasad.

External powered 3.5", external hard disk should not have a problem.

It is the 2.5" USB powered, external hard disk which will not work.

Actually I have had no problems with a self powered 200GB external HDD and an 80 GB USB powered external HDD.

Not sure if the bigger volume USB powered external HDDs could have a problem.

Maybe that's the reason.
The self powered ones would have trouble extracting that much power from the player.
In that case, you should be able to use the an external USB power adapter like: Cables To Go - AC to USB Power Adapter

Hi Guys , me new here , was a regular at AV Forums , and I am really glad to find a Indian Forum for the same . Ok this is one topic which I read and researched at AV Forums and Google. It seems SwaFa you have it the other way around , the thing is that 3.5" external HDD require a lot more power. hence many of them either require dual usb connection or an ac adaptor source. 2.5" hard disks on the other hand require lesser power consumption and as a result the 500mA from a usb source is enough to drive the same. In my last trip to the states I had bought a WD 250 gb HDD for a friend of mine which worked beautifully with my laptop. During HDD intensive operations it never disconnected even once although it used to run hot under extended usage.
OK , now there were many posts in AV forums claiming that the same HDD did not work on older dvd players with USB 1.1 port but lower capacity 80GB HDD created no problems. However since the new Gen DVD players are coming with USB 2.0 it just might have the strength to read a 250 GB HDD . But has anybody in the forum tried the same.It would be great news if the same worked and I presently am on a lookout for a similar DVD player ( My Archos 605 Conked out :-( ) where I can connect and watch my 200 gb of movies and music .

I could not find the above mentioned Phillips Model on the Phillips India Site. Are you sure the same has been launched in India ?

Also I had bought a Phillips 5956 ( HDMI + USB 1.1 + Slot Load ) when It was launched around a year back. As ezone did not have the same in stock they had given me a display unit with a promise that they would replace the same with the fresh stock as soon as they arrived . However as they did not get stock I went for a Sony NS 76 ( HDMI but no USB) as replacement. I immediately burnt some previously watched divx movies and to my amazement I saw that Sony performed better especially in low light scenes. The blacks were blacker. I could hardly notice the blocks ( I hope you understand what I mean here) which was a common phenomenon in Phillips but I damn miss the USB functionality . So I have hooked my Sony DVD via Belkin Component Cable( I highly recommend the cable - Picture Quality improvement by 25% !!! ) to my Samsung 29" and now looking for a DVD player with USB for my LCD. But the question is that does the new series 5996 use the same Mediatek chipset as 5956 ?

It is indeed listed here DVP5996K/94 - DVD Player with HDMI and USB - Players and recorders - Recorders, DVD and home theater - Philips
Although I dont know the answer, thanks for the feedback.

Phillips 5996 has ample no of reviews abroad, and is a gr8 player, it has high speed usb port (2.0) , only problem is as of now i am unable to find it in stock in most of the places i inquired, so waiting for product to be locally available, then u just take ur portable hdd along, plug it in and enjoy,,,

Another point to make notice is that playing high speed flash drives, gives better performance during heavy graphic scenes where at times, pixellisation may happen , many users abroad who are using div x through usb have recommended using high speed flash drives along with the player, also u need to partition ur drive using Fat 32, ntfs won't work