Re: How to: Dual use USB drive ---> Read/Write from Computer and Read from "Stand Alone DVD Player"

I don't believe you can do this. You'd need some kind of USB hub with a
switch to move the device from one input to the other as it could never be
connected to both simultaneously. I have never seen such a device.

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"WeeWillieWinkie" <> wrote in message
news...
>
> Vista Home Premium
>
> I have a stand alone DVD player (Phillips DVP5990) that has a USB port for
> connecting USB HD's or
> flash drives. I've tried it with both a 4 gb flash drive and an 80 gb USB
> HD . . . it works great.
>
> I would like to be able to transfer movies from the computer to the 80 gb
> drive and watch them on
> the DVD player without having to keep disconnecting from one and
> reconnecting to the other. What is
> the best (cheapest) way to connect the 80 gb drive to both the computer
> and the DVD player
> simultaneously.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Don

Not sure if it will work. I do know they make a cable like you describ
though. I have seen them at radio shack. I believe they are used t
transfer documents from one PC to another

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I would tend to doubt it. The PC almost surely does not expose the same
read/write type of surface that a USB flash drive device does. There may be
such a cable/device/software combo out there but I have never seen anything
like it.

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"WeeWillieWinkie" <> wrote in message
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>
> Do you know if I can go straight from the computer's USB connector to the
> DVD player's USB
> connector. Both are the flat, 5/8" wide female type USB connection.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Don
>
> On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 18:07:41 -0500, "Richard G. Harper"
> <> wrote:
>
>>I don't believe you can do this. You'd need some kind of USB hub with a
>>switch to move the device from one input to the other as it could never be
>>connected to both simultaneously. I have never seen such a device.
>>
>>--
>>Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User]
>>* NEW! Catch my blog ... http://msmvps.com/blogs/rgharper/
>>* PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups
>>* The Website - http://rgharper.mvps.org/
>>
>>
>>"WeeWillieWinkie" <> wrote in message
>>news. ..
>>>
>>> Vista Home Premium
>>>
>>> I have a stand alone DVD player (Phillips DVP5990) that has a USB port
>>> for
>>> connecting USB HD's or
>>> flash drives. I've tried it with both a 4 gb flash drive and an 80 gb
>>> USB
>>> HD . . . it works great.
>>>
>>> I would like to be able to transfer movies from the computer to the 80
>>> gb
>>> drive and watch them on
>>> the DVD player without having to keep disconnecting from one and
>>> reconnecting to the other. What is
>>> the best (cheapest) way to connect the 80 gb drive to both the computer
>>> and the DVD player
>>> simultaneously.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Don