Hard Drive | Glenn Ward

XBox 360 – Playing Video Files from an Extenal Device

Similarly to the Playstation 3 you can play regular video files on your XBox 360, here’s how.

Plug in you Hard Drive to a USB port,

Go to My Xbox and scroll right to your Video Library square / button/ tab what ever you call it,

Choose Portable Device with the USB symbol by it,

You should be able to see the folder structure on the hard drive, browse to the video you want to play,

The next screen will show the title of the file, hit Play, you will get a message telling you a media update is required (about 4 meg) you will need to sign into Xbox live, if you haven’t already, do so and hit Play again.

Choose Download Update and the Optional Media Update the Confirm Download,

You’re done, go back and play the file.

If you want to know how to do the same with your Playstation 3 See Here

Playstation 3 – Playing Video Files and Movies on your PS3

In the past I have exported my DVD’s to play on my iPod or laptop while I am out of the country or out and about to save carrying them all around with me. I wanted explore ways to play these on the television.

Using the PS3 plug the hard drive into the USB port. On the Playstation scroll over to the Movie symbol then scroll down and locate your USB Device next press Triangle NOT the Cross and choose Display All you should now be able to see all the files on your device. Navigate to your video and hit X.

If you want to know how to the same on your Xbox 360 the See Here
and if you want to learn how to stream your media from your Macbook Pro to your PS3 See Here

Playstation 3 – Performing your PS3 update from an external portable device

I have my PS3 quite away from the modem and as a result it continually drops the downloads during update to the system and to games. I finally read up on how to do the update by downloading the update from the Sony PS3 site, creating a folder on the external drive called PS3 (case sensitive) and within that another called UPDATE, (again case sensitive) drop the update file in this folder and connect it to your PS3′s USB port. Using the PS3 menu screen navigate to the left and up to Software Update, follow the prompts and your update will be done in a fraction of the time!