I've ripped my entire DVD collection of around 100 DVDs to DivX and stored the DivX files on an external hard drive. The quality isn't too bad and the files are between 400MB to 1GB in size. I started back in January so it's taken a while (not full time of course)!
This was primarily done as I travel a lot and want to watch my films on the plane or in hotels using my laptop. However, the convenience of having everything on one external HDD is making me think that there must be a DVD player out there that will be able to read my HDD.
So, which DVD players can be recommended that meet the following criteria:
1. Playback of DivX/XviD files.
2. Able to read files off an external HDD via a USB connection.
3. Cost < £300
I don't want a DVD player/recorder that has a built in HDD as I want to use my portable HDD. I just want to be able to plug my external HDD into it and be presented with the folder structure and select a movie file to play.