HV355U Mobile Media HDD review  At last, a DIVX box that's aware
Europe exists. Except...  TODO alt text  Our Verdict  Better
than the S-video hordes, but the fan noise is a pain     • At
last, a standalone player with SCART     • Basic interface  Were
we ever to stage a war, once we'd finished wiping the Earth
clean of pushchairs and clipart, the next object of our
agression would be S-video.  It's vastly inferior to the RGB
SCART sockets found on most half-decent UK TVs, but because it's
the most widely-used interface in the US, it's everywhere. Ever
tried connecting your PC to a telly via S-video? Yeuch.  So,
it's a massive relief to discover a standalone (there's no
networking - just copy files from your PC over USB 2.0) hard
drive video player with a SCART port built in. With DIVX, XVID
and VOB support, on paper the HV355U is the perfect portable
media box.  'Perfect' was not the description that we used the
morning after a night's testing on our DIVX collection. Its
built-in fan made more of a racket th