522 USB port

[mrbluehead]

Sorry I am a little green here, may have been asked.

Does the USB port have any current fuction? If not what are the plans for this port, may an external HD? That would be nice. Maybe an easy why to download shows from the internal HD :shocked Also is this a USB 2.0?

 

[stratguy]

It is usb 1 and the only thing it supports as of now are keyboards and a mouse. Some people are having great luck with these devices. I don't look for them to develop this port any further because no one at E* will ever say much about it. But who knows.

Bob

 

[RBBrittain]

It is usb 1 and the only thing it supports as of now are keyboards and a mouse. Some people are having great luck with these devices. I don't look for them to develop this port any further because no one at E* will ever say much about it. But who knows.

Bob

Even this is only for the 721, which also has a USB port. I tried hooking a keyboard to the 522 port; no luck. Apparently it's too heavily encrypted to do anything with besides whatever E* is planning.

The best guess is that it'll be used someday with the concept displayed at Team Summit to make the 522 HD into a MP3 player; you'd copy MP3s from your PC onto a USB flash drive, then copy from there onto the 522.