How to connect a USB/External Hard disc to a LCD TV which has only HDMi ports?

blankhead · Nov 12, 2014

I have a Samsung LCD TV which has two HDMi ports, but doesn't have any USB port. So I usually connect only my laptop with an HDMi cable. But now I need to connect my external HDD or USB flash drive to the TV. How can I do that? Is there any converters available for this?

My HDD has not any external power supply

Someone Somewhere · Nov 12, 2014

You need to connect a computer to the TV, and then the HDD to the computer. You cannot connect the HDD directly to the TV.

blankhead · Nov 12, 2014

Are you sure of that. I Know to connect connect it through a computer. Leave the case HDD. Can I connect a USB to TV through HDMi port?

Someone Somewhere · Nov 12, 2014

You'll need what's effectively a computer; some of the small Android TV sticks might be able to do it.

hang-the-9 · Nov 14, 2014

blankhead :

You can't, just connect the drives to the laptop and use that to play the files on the computer. Or get a media player that can read external drives. I had a fairly cheap DVD player that had a USB port and I had a 320 gig external drive hanging off it that played AVI DIVX files.

Lucias OKeefe · Nov 14, 2014

Alternatively you can look for some of the "Hard Drive Enclosures". A friend of mine swears by one because they'll take any standard HDD and can stream directly to a TV so he keeps his movies on it.

andya48 · Jan 24, 2015

hdmi jack is specifically designed to get a direct video signal. the usb device holds only media data. so even if tommarrow, u get any converter to do so(which is impossible bcoz the reason is-), the converter has to decode usb media to audio-video output(which is done by laptop/some new android devices) and then give it to hdmi.

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