Recently while in a shopping complex, I was surprised to see some DVD players that has what looked like  USB ports. It looks like not only do computers have USB ports, bus so does DVD players!

I asked the shopkeeper if that meant that I can plugin my USB thumbdrive  and watch movies out of that. He said “yes”. It so happened I had a Divx movie about 300Mb on my thumbdrive and I plugged that in and it played very smoothly from the USB stick. Apparently the DVD player has codex to decode Divx too!

Amazing! All this from a cheapo brand made in China. The price of that player is RM 139 but I just saw one offer from Jaya Jusco in Mid Valley for RM 99 only. I think it’s worth getting as I’ve been burning videos off my notebook to try to view them on the TV and DVD player but it’s such a waste of discs. Also, there’s something wrong with my notebook’s TV out as it keeps on displaying Black and White videos only :(

Anyway, my current Sony DVD player needs to be changed too as it can’t read many (ahem) pirated DVDs. Better to replace that with a cheap one that has USB reader, multi-region playback, and DivX codex.

Update: I bought the DVD player with USB port :)

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