Can we play movie on TV from hard disk?
Some of the DVD-R backups I made few months ago can't play any more. This seriously raises the question how long it would last before the other backup disks go bad. For this reason, I would love to back up my videos on a chain of big hard disks instead of on DVD-R, hopefully the storage lasts longer. I rather prefer to store home videos this way than on DVD-Rs or camcorder tapes.
It would be ideal if we could play the movies from the hard disks directly on the TV; the hard disk plus any necessary hardware should function just like a set-top DVD player. In this way, all home videos can be made into DVD format, stored on disk, and played from there, without the need to write them on DVD-Rs.
Does anyone know if there are any existing hardware/software peripherals that allow us to do just that? Is there any company that makes a device that allows us to plug a hard disk in and play the contents on TV? Thanks for any info you could give.
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