HD Media Player

[36TEAK36]

The power on my 500GB Media Player has finally given up. I know the drive itself is ok as I have tested it on a PC.Ideally I would like to move onto a high def media player and was wondering if I purhased a HD Media Player Enclosure, would my existing drive be capable of HD quality if I had a HD movie on the drive.In other words, does the drive itself have to be a HD drive, or is it the Media Player that enables it to play HD quality.

I will buy a HD Media Player with the drive already installed if this is the only way, but I wa just trying to cut costs by using my existing drive.

Any advice would be most appreciated.

[rojash]

a disk drive is a disk drive - it stores files. It doesn't care what they are. If it did, you'd have to have multiple types of disk drive in a PC for all the different multimedia files.

[36TEAK36]

Thanks for your answer Rojash, this is exactly as I thought,but I just wanted confirmation of this.

[ChuckFickens]

As rojash said assuming the drive is a SATA one (which it almost certainly is due to the size) if it's an IDE drive you will probably not be able to find a modern enclosure it will fit in

[rojash]

should have said though, that you do need to check whether it's SATA or PATA and check that the media player is compatible.

[rojash]

Snap (ish)

[ChuckFickens]

LOL

[ChuckFickens]

just to clarify a little.


Hard drives used in a home environment typically can have two types of connector on them, either the new type which is SATA or the older type which is called IDE, PATA or ATA (all 3 are the same. just with different names)

You need to make sure the drive enclosure you get has the correct connector, pics below so you can identify the drive

SATA
http://www.mysuperpc....onnectors_jumpers.jpg

IDE/PATA/ATA
http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/350/idei.jpg

[36TEAK36]

Thanks to everone for their advice.My drive is SATA, so I should be ok finding an enclosure.

[monique424]

i've always being using Mac blu-ray media player and i think it is great. it is free and it is HD. you can search it in http://www.blurayplayermac.com/mac-blu-ray-player.htm. hope you will like it