HDMI harddrive

[sinbad]

HI

Returning home from boarding school i often bring back lots of movies and tv shows etc back on my laptop. When im at home i connect the laptop to the TV with a hdmi cable and all works well. However i am wondering can i buy an external harddrive, with a hdmi port that i can leave permantly next to the TV. So i can copy movies from laptop to this harddrive and dont need laptop to play movies. Is this possible.

IS this what i am talking about.

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/WD-1000GB-1T...QQptZAU_Players_Recorders?hash=item1c0d03c927

The movies are all xvid avi files. would these be able to be played.
please respond
cheers.

 

[Redleader]

Id look at something like the Asus OPlay or the Western Digital WDTV.

 

[XS Janus]

WDTV or something similar that has network a connection.

 

[keenan]

Popcorn Hour.

 

[PHiZ]

The critical thing is to make sure that the processor in the "hard-drive" will be able to handle the resolution that you want to play, and that it supports the codec/containers that you encode to.