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<blockquote data-quote="Nethfel" data-source="post: 899495" data-attributes="member: 89124"><p>I'd have to agree with S.SubZero here.</p><p></p><p>Straight from DVD will be terrible as now you're driving the DVD player which will most definitely absorb more power then a thumb drive.</p><p></p><p>Streaming would be nice, but network activity usually causes a power drain, and unless you plan to drape a cable over your bed, I'd assume you were planning wireless which will tend to drain a battery faster</p><p></p><p>AVI from HDD - well, unless you have a SSD for your main storage, your hard drive will consume more power then the thumb drive. If your HD can sleep while you're playing a movie, you'd get better battery life as you won't be wasting power on the motors of the HD</p><p></p><p>So, it would appear the best option left is the thumb drive. Of course, the negative is if your movies are large, you won't be able to fit a lot on the thumb drive, which would require a lot of up/down. While you're sick it may be worth the loss in battery life and use wifi to stream the video from your pc where it is all stored, and when the time comes plug into AC - all of course depending on the size and quantity of videos you want to have access to. </p><p></p><p>This is, of course, completely ignoring the thought of having internet access, which then if you're already using the wifi, the extra drain of the constant stream of the video might not be as big of an effect.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nethfel, post: 899495, member: 89124"] I'd have to agree with S.SubZero here. Straight from DVD will be terrible as now you're driving the DVD player which will most definitely absorb more power then a thumb drive. Streaming would be nice, but network activity usually causes a power drain, and unless you plan to drape a cable over your bed, I'd assume you were planning wireless which will tend to drain a battery faster AVI from HDD - well, unless you have a SSD for your main storage, your hard drive will consume more power then the thumb drive. If your HD can sleep while you're playing a movie, you'd get better battery life as you won't be wasting power on the motors of the HD So, it would appear the best option left is the thumb drive. Of course, the negative is if your movies are large, you won't be able to fit a lot on the thumb drive, which would require a lot of up/down. While you're sick it may be worth the loss in battery life and use wifi to stream the video from your pc where it is all stored, and when the time comes plug into AC - all of course depending on the size and quantity of videos you want to have access to. This is, of course, completely ignoring the thought of having internet access, which then if you're already using the wifi, the extra drain of the constant stream of the video might not be as big of an effect. [/QUOTE]
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