WD's New My Passport AV Portable Media Drives
Techtree News Staff, Mar 22, 2010 1807 hrs ISTBack up your camcorder's HD video or play a movie on your home theater without using a computer
Western Digital has introduced the all new My Passport AV portable media drive that works with select Sony camcorders, Blu-ray and other media players. Capable of holding up to 320GB, the new My Passport AV portable media drive can be simply hooked to the supporting Blu-ray players, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 consoles, and TV sets. Available only at select outlets, this Passport AV portable media drive costs Rs. 5,150.
The WD My Passport AV portable media drive works with a number of Sony Camcorders and you can simply hook both of them together to transfer hours of recording without using a computer. For instance, Sony's new HandyCam video recorders offer Direct Copy feature which could be used to store the HD video directly on the My Passport AV HDD. The good part here is that no computer is required. So, if you've to record an entire wedding and then keep dumping the video, then this drive comes quite handy.
Formatted in FAT32 file system, this portable drive is ready for Windows 7/Vista/XP and Mac OS X Tiger/Leopard/Snow Leopard. The WD My Passport AV portable media drive uses the same hard drive technology found in the Digital Video Recorders and Set top boxes. The media drive uses USB 2.0 bus interface for data transfer.
My Passport AV portable media drives are compatible with the following devices:
The complete list of devices compatible with My Passport AV portable hard drive can be found here.
The WD My Passport AV portable media drive works with a number of Sony Camcorders and you can simply hook both of them together to transfer hours of recording without using a computer. For instance, Sony's new HandyCam video recorders offer Direct Copy feature which could be used to store the HD video directly on the My Passport AV HDD. The good part here is that no computer is required. So, if you've to record an entire wedding and then keep dumping the video, then this drive comes quite handy.
Formatted in FAT32 file system, this portable drive is ready for Windows 7/Vista/XP and Mac OS X Tiger/Leopard/Snow Leopard. The WD My Passport AV portable media drive uses the same hard drive technology found in the Digital Video Recorders and Set top boxes. The media drive uses USB 2.0 bus interface for data transfer.
My Passport AV portable media drives are compatible with the following devices:
- WD TV family of media players
- 2010 and later Sony camcorders with Direct Copy functionality;
- Sony 2010 Blu-ray Disc Players including BDP-S370, BDP-S470, BDP-S570;
- Sony 2010 Blu-ray Disc Home Theater Systems including BDV-E370, BDV-E570;
- JVC LT-32P689 television;
- Samsung LN32A550 television;
- Phillips 42PFLA332D television;
- Microsoft Xbox 360 (compatible with the USB media playback feature); and,
- Sony PlayStation 3.
The complete list of devices compatible with My Passport AV portable hard drive can be found here.
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