External USB 2 HDD for my movies & music?

[JIT]

Just about to look for an external HDD to connect up to my 360 for movies/music etc. but want to make sure i'm doing the right thing before buying.

Will mainly be DVDs & music i put on it plus some photos, is there anything i should be aware of before buying?

I know i'll have to format it as Mac HFS for 4GB+ files like WMV-HD.

 

[ukbootlegs]

nope

you know about the 4gb thing so you should be good to go

 

[dan1979]

It's HFS+ not HFS but yeah, any drive will do.

 

[JIT]

Thanks, the Western Digital 750GB on Amazon for £95.99 looks the 1.

 

[Indiana Jones]

You mention that you will be putting DVD's on it, well the 360 wont be able to play them unless you convert them to .wmv or Divx/XviD

 

[Immortaleffectz]

If you get an external hhd but keep the 360 one will you be able to put game demo's and saves on the ext hdd?

 

[Indiana Jones]

If you get an external hhd but keep the 360 one will you be able to put game demo's and saves on the ext hdd?

Nope.

 

[Immortaleffectz]

Indiana Jones thanks mate.

 

[JIT]

So i can't have a Vob or Avi file on disk just to be played back?

 

[JIT]

What about Iso files?

 

[HDPio]

So i can't have a Vob or Avi file on disk just to be played back?

If the AVI file is DiVX or XViD yes.

 

[Indiana Jones]

What about Iso files?

Nope the 360 wont read .vob, .iso or MPEG-2 files so the only way to get DVD's to play on the 360 is to re-encode them.

 

[ashleylad]

Do You think the 360 will ever support playback of the vob files?? I have tried converting some using freeware software to xvid and it worked remarkably well, although picture quality was reduced due to film size going from 3.7gb down to 800Meg.

Ash

 

[JIT]

What's the playback quality of Divx files compared to their DVD original like?

Would be using a 42" screen.

 

[Indiana Jones]

What's the playback quality of Divx files compared to their DVD original like?

Would be using a 42" screen.

All depends on what settings were used when the Divx file was created.

If space isnt an issue you could probaley make a file that has the same res and bitrate as the original DVD or you could reduce the res and bitrate making a smaller file but of reduced quality.

I suppose you would have to do some tests yourself and pick a setting you are happy with.

 

[Trist]

Fir anyone looking for an external hard drive this one from Amazon.co.uk looks like a fairly good deal at the mo. Just ordered one myself

£59.99 delivered.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Western-Dig..._sr_6?ie=UTF8&s=gateway&qid=1200917412&sr=8-6