LaCie Silverscreen Media Drive

[lepremier]

Anyone have any experience with this unit? Before I buy it, I would like to know if, when hooked up to the tv, it will play downloaded iTunes movies.
Thanks.....

 

[-DH]

According to the LaCie website for the product, it is compatible with these formats:

Video: MPEG-1, MPEG-2 (AVI, VOB, ISO) and MPEG 4 (AVI, DivX®, XviD);
Audio: MP3, WAV, WMA, AAC1, and AC3;
Photo: JPEG (up to 8 mega pixel)2

1: the silverscreen does support "regular" AAC audio format (Windows) but not the proprietary "AAC format of Apple (".m4a")
2: the silverscreen does support "regular" JPEG photos in RGB mode but not in CMYK format.

You should probably check with the manufacturer for specific details.

-DH

 

[lepremier]

LaCie Silverscreen

-DH...
I see that the downloaded iTunes movies are .m4v files. Do you know the difference between the quoted unsupported .m4a and .m4v....Audio/Video?

 

[-DH]

The difference that I'm aware of is that downloads from the iTune Store have DRM encryption (digital rights management). But there are probably other differences that I'm not aware of.

-DH