A:Answerthe answer is yes Duck.
no need to hook this player to a network of any kind.
it's ready to play ALL your disks right out of the box.
CD-Audio, DVD and Blu-Ray (up to 1920x1080p).
enjoy!
A:Answerhoneyeater, the usb input is 2.0. plenty fast enough for video playback.
there's a 128GB usb 3.0 flash drive plugged in mine, and it works fine.
It's formatted NTFS, but i don't play any files over 4GB anyway.
have fun!
A:AnswerThis device connects to a television via HDMI, so one needs a television with HDMI connections and an HDMI cable as well. To convey the picture quality that is on the blu-ray disc to the television screen one needs an HDMI cable. Otherwise the quality of the signal is greatly diminished. Perhaps a converter box exists that accepts an HDMI signal and transmits the signal to a television with the former connections. I don't know of any, but there may be one.