Does this technology even exist?

[Gazz]

My TV in my livingroom has a USB port which allows me to plug in a USB stick (or harddrive) into it and can watch movies straight off the device - which basically makes my DVD player redundant.

However I was looking for a way of doing the same with my TV in the bedroom. It does not have a USB port; but I was wondering if you could get something like a SCART > USB cable or similar.

I have searched the internet and all I can seem to find is something like this:

https://www.cables-leads.co.uk/scart-to-usb-2-0-video-capture-kit

https://www.cables-leads.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/5e06319eda06f020e43594a9c230972d/s/c/scart-to-usb-kit-montage.jpg

https://www.cables-leads.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/5e06319eda06f020e43594a9c230972d/u/s/usb-video-capture-cable.jpg

Which is not really what I am looking for....

The connection would need to have a female USB port on it to allow you to put a USB stick into it.

Cannot seem to find anything like this anywhere, so I was wondering if this has been invented yet, and if not, then feel free to take my idea to Dragon's Den and use it yourself, as long as I get 1 free product once the devices are rolling off the production line.

Cheers.

[The Shaggy D.A.]

You want a USB media player, you do.
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[LordShaftesbu...]

I don't think it's a matter of a simple lead, USB carries digital info and SCART carries analogue so there would need to be some sort of circuitry in the middle to convert between them. Could be expensive.

[Robby]

I don't know of a nice cheap solution, but I have an HD Ryan Playon box for that sort of thing. Hard drive media player, I paid about £100 for mine. Incredible bit of kit, outputs over HDMI.

Far better than trying to play from an Xbox over the network using windows media player (slow), or play from a PC (lack of decent remote control, some kind of updates will pop up during a movie).

The ultimate for me would be to have a networked hard drive for backup, that was also a media player. I believe such a thing exists, but for the price its worth just getting another PC to handle the same tasks and do more.

What I really want is a PC/TV combination that actually gives me a decent picture when using the TV as a monitor, I can never get a decent resolution and decent colour doing this.

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[Hetzer]

If the TV doesn't have the codecs programmed in it's unlikely it'd be able to read anything from the USB device anyway. Like most TVs that do actually have a USB port (Sony and Panasonic to name two).
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[Ol]

You want one of these:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Designer-Habitat-Nano-3-0-Flashdrives/dp/B005ERNITE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1324332028&sr=8-1

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