Turn Your Thumb Drive into a Media Server

August 5, 2008 by David Kay
Filed under: Home Audio



Have a USB thumb drive loaded with music or videos that you'd like to play on a stereo or TV? Freecom's new MediaPlayer XS allows you to do just that. Essentially a small black box with a USB 2.0 host port on one end and composite video/stereo audio cables on the other, the MediaPlayer XS supports any USB external hard drive or thumb drive, formatted with either FAT-32 or NTFS.


It features direct playback of MP3, WMA and WAV audio files, MPEG-1, 2 or 4 video files (including Divx and Xvid), and JPG, M-JPG, BMP and GIF photos, and includes a remote control. The MediaPlayer XS is available direct from Freecom, priced at $109.

Source: Freecom
Comments (3)
ngsm13 1 month and 2 days ago

So do it have a mediaplayer type interface on the TV or what?
Electrodynamic 1 month and 2 days ago

I assume you control it with the supplied remote and it displays on your monitor/TV?
ngsm13 1 month and 1 day ago

That's what I'd think too, but was wondering...

nG
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