recommendable player and info about USB and hard disk connector

USB port for external disk used;
and HDMI output and upscaling formats

2) connected via HDMI cable (not supplied) LCD TV
Image and sound very good

3) also remote control is ok and functional enough

4) USB port
a) my external hard drive (SAMSUNG / Tevion) ​​that I connected via USB, and also has an external power supply, is recognized as soon as I formatted as FAT32 (not NTFS as possible as it is also clearly in the manual);
b) only the first partition is recognized on the disk (more be ignored; NTFS partition must not be prior to the FAT32 partition);
c) under FAT32 partition must not be too large (120GB was ok, 300 GB was too much; plate should still be recognized, but the directories appear empty without files)
d) from USB stick or disk, all formats, which also CD / DVD disk supported: AVI (DivX, XviD); DVD files; MP3

e) is only important that the individual files
5) minimum deductions
a) build quality (plastic remote control)
b) DISPLAY button may spend more information (especially for USB single files) as video and audio codec, ...
c) not all formats of DivX Test CD 2.0 are supported

6) supplement / complement after a few weeks in operation: The enthusiasm for using the USB disk to play DVD files kept within limits.

DVD files (VOB) via USB hard drive while playing works but also has disadvantages

a) each file of the DVD will be treated individually and in the transition from a TS-file to the next, there is recently Haenger

b) the DVD files are on the USB drive is not always smooth play (especially for moving scenes and background music, which is too slow then ...); does not change if you changed upscaling; whether it is because of my USB disk (? too slowly) or the player I have not further restricted; in any case brought to shrink the partition size from 160GB to 80GB and Defragementieren no remedy;

7) Addendum Apri-2009
recommend now the successor model Philips DVP 5990/12 DVD Player, which is already working with USB 2.0 and thus has fewer problems with recognition of the plates and ruckelfreiem Abpsielen;

or equal WD TV Media Player