Carnival Venezia in cabin TV hard drive connection

[leojagpreet]

Hi

 

Can we plug in hard drive to in cabin TV using HDMI cable & watch? 

 

We will need unused hdmi port in tv & remote should have option to change input from regular tv to hdmi 2 or something.

 

We save lots of videos for our son & than can play on big screen for him.

 

Thanks

[luv2kroooz]

1 hour ago, leojagpreet said:

Hi

 

Can we plug in hard drive to in cabin TV using HDMI cable & watch? 

 

We will need unused hdmi port in tv & remote should have option to change input from regular tv to hdmi 2 or something.

 

We save lots of videos for our son & than can play on big screen for him.

 

Thanks

No, the HDMI ports are disabled.

 

https://help.carnival.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2789/~/stateroom-television-programming

 

Connecting Personal Devices to Stateroom TV's
Guests are not permitted to connect Digital Cameras/Camcorders, DVDs/VCRs, USB sticks, iPods, Nintendo/X-Box Play units with the television in the staterooms; all connection ports are disabled.

[Mike45LC]

I have never tried, but there have been threads in which people have reported that with a Universal Remote, they were able to plug in with a HDMI plug and access their phone/I-Pad/hard drive.  Supposedly, the Carnival Remotes don't allow this.

 

I had to buy a USB-C to HDMI cable for my wife's new iPhone, in case she wanted to plug her new phone into the TV, but we didn't try it.

 

[mz-s]

On 3/31/2024 at 1:10 PM, leojagpreet said:

Hi

 

Can we plug in hard drive to in cabin TV using HDMI cable & watch? 

 

We will need unused hdmi port in tv & remote should have option to change input from regular tv to hdmi 2 or something.

 

We save lots of videos for our son & than can play on big screen for him.

 

Thanks

 

What hard drive has an HDMI port? As far as I know it does not exist.

[kwokpot]

On 3/31/2024 at 1:10 PM, leojagpreet said:

Hi

 

Can we plug in hard drive to in cabin TV using HDMI cable & watch? 

 

We will need unused hdmi port in tv & remote should have option to change input from regular tv to hdmi 2 or something.

 

We save lots of videos for our son & than can play on big screen for him.

 

Thanks

I'm not aware of any hard drive you can connect directly to a TV to watch downloaded movies. A TV isn't a computer nor can you operate apps directly from a hard drive without a computer or tablet, you need software to run the apps. Now if you mean connecting a TV streaming device like a Chromecast, Roku, or Apple TV, that's a totally different story, but a streaming device isn't called a hard drive.

[mz-s]

1 hour ago, kwokpot said:

I'm not aware of any hard drive you can connect directly to a TV to watch downloaded movies. A TV isn't a computer nor can you operate apps directly from a hard drive without a computer or tablet, you need software to run the apps. Now if you mean connecting a TV streaming device like a Chromecast, Roku, or Apple TV, that's a totally different story, but a streaming device isn't called a hard drive.

 

Exactly. Words matter!