Sinotec TV usb port reads hard drive !

[Diego Tristan]

Wassup guys n girls, public service announcement =p I'm blown away by this Sinotec Full HD tele that my pop casually bought yesterday... will you believe me when I tell you that it's USB port played my external hard drive 500gb externally powered! What astonished me further was that it played everything I threw at it bar a few avi files but then other avi files it played. Quite an anomaly. The video formats I tested, mkv, mp4 (1080p Ted movie), avi, flv, mpg, divx. Working successfully. Blown away by it... such a casual purchase all my dad knew was to get a full hd unit. This model was the 39" FHD LED LCD, STL-39ME82.

 

[Fulcrum29]

Check the resolution (video size) of those certain AVI files which did not play. Many players just don’t want to play over certain resolutions…

 

[4cer]

my 4 year old samsung places mkv 1080p files off a flash drive even if you want.

 

[SpoonTech]

Wassup guys n girls, public service announcement =p I'm blown away by this Sinotec Full HD tele that my pop casually bought yesterday... will you believe me when I tell you that it's USB port played my external hard drive 500gb externally powered! What astonished me further was that it played everything I threw at it bar a few avi files but then other avi files it played. Quite an anomaly. The video formats I tested, mkv, mp4 (1080p Ted movie), avi, flv, mpg, divx. Working successfully. Blown away by it... such a casual purchase all my dad knew was to get a full hd unit. This model was the 39" FHD LED LCD, STL-39ME82.

AVI is a container, not a codec, so the TV may play one codec but not another within AVI containers.
Common AVI related codecs include DivX, Xvid and H264 (used by Youtube)

 

[Diego Tristan]

my 4 year old samsung places mkv 1080p files off a flash drive even if you want.

Hey bru that's terrific what would you say is the quality versus Sinotec ito of Picture Quality... obviously Sinotec has guarantee + price in it's favour. Thanks

 

[Diego Tristan]

AVI is a container, not a codec, so the TV may play one codec but not another within AVI containers.
Common AVI related codecs include DivX, Xvid and H264 (used by Youtube)

Thanks homie I'm not that Clued up but the file name is xxx.avi...

 

[Diego Tristan]

Check the resolution (video size) of those certain AVI files which did not play. Many players just don’t want to play over certain resolutions…

will scope it out when I get my hard drive back later today shot for that observation mate

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

Wassup guys n girls, public service announcement =p I'm blown away by this Sinotec Full HD tele that my pop casually bought yesterday... will you believe me when I tell you that it's USB port played my external hard drive 500gb externally powered! What astonished me further was that it played everything I threw at it bar a few avi files but then other avi files it played. Quite an anomaly. The video formats I tested, mkv, mp4 (1080p Ted movie), avi, flv, mpg, divx. Working successfully. Blown away by it... such a casual purchase all my dad knew was to get a full hd unit. This model was the 39" FHD LED LCD, STL-39ME82.

Wow that's awesome! I recently put a CD with mp3 files on it into my cars radio and it played the songs! Totally blew my mind

 

[satanboy]

nothing to see here

 

[Voicy]

Is your external FAT32 or NTFS?

 

[Diego Tristan]

Is your external FAT32 or NTFS?

Ntfs mate

 

[isie]

Sinotec is basically rebranded chinese manufactured stuff - Educated guess - chances are they knock offs of samsung which would explain the media capability and ability to read NTFS HDD's

 

[Thestealth]

Thanks homie I'm not that Clued up but the file name is xxx.avi...

xxx.avi? Hopefully your parents weren't with you in the room when you tried to watch that...

 

[Rouxenator]

Have to add to this thread, bough a cheap 19" Sinotec LED TV this weekend from Game for R1400. It has two USB ports, supports FAT16/32 and NTFS. It played all file formats, even Real Media clips! Very impressed with it and I am planning to replace my horrible 51" Samsung Plasma with a big Sinotec LED in the near future. Speaking of which, Game has nearly halved the price on those rubbish 51" Samsung Plasma sets now, down from R7k to I think R4k.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Wow that's awesome! I recently put a CD with mp3 files on it into my cars radio and it played the songs! Totally blew my mind

Try this out for size....

I put MP3's onto my Cellular Telephone (amazing enough in and of itself), but when I get into my car... there is this thing called Bluetooth and now these MP3's play on my car speakers...

Its MAGIC i tell you, MAGIC!

 

[Rouxenator]

Sweet sweet magic! Just be careful because if your cellular telephone uses a Samsung Plasma technology it will burn the MP3 into the car speakers for ever.

 

[Rocket Raccoon]

Wassup guys n girls, public service announcement =p I'm blown away by this Sinotec Full HD tele that my pop casually bought yesterday... will you believe me when I tell you that it's USB port played my external hard drive 500gb externally powered! What astonished me further was that it played everything I threw at it bar a few avi files but then other avi files it played. Quite an anomaly. The video formats I tested, mkv, mp4 (1080p Ted movie), avi, flv, mpg, divx. Working successfully. Blown away by it... such a casual purchase all my dad knew was to get a full hd unit. This model was the 39" FHD LED LCD, STL-39ME82.

This has to be the shill-iest post I have ever seen

 

[Rouxenator]

Well it did get me to buy a Sinotec and I could actually verify what was said in that post.

That is more than what can be said of 90% of the posts there on myBB.

 

[akescpt]

Have to add to this thread, bough a cheap 19" Sinotec LED TV this weekend from Game for R1400. It has two USB ports, supports FAT16/32 and NTFS. It played all file formats, even Real Media clips! Very impressed with it and I am planning to replace my horrible 51" Samsung Plasma with a big Sinotec LED in the near future. Speaking of which, Game has nearly halved the price on those rubbish 51" Samsung Plasma sets now, down from R7k to I think R4k.

why is the plasma so rubbish?

 

[Rouxenator]

Three years ago I followed advice here on myBB and bought a 51" Samsung plasma, it was nice for the first year or so, but you should see the amount of burn-in that thing has now. It is flawed technology from the word go and those that recommend it should be ignored.