Need help choosing an external HDD caddy/enclosure

[adamcube]

Basically, I'm looking for an enclosure for an IDE or SATA hardrive that can connect to my PC through USB.

That's where the simplicities stop.

I also would like this enclosure to be able to output video to a TV, through S-Video or something akin. It should be able to support as many video codecs as possible, with Xvid and MKV being my two preferences.

The last detail is that I need this enclosure to be fairly cheap - under £50.

Thankyou for your help

 

[nobly]

Its more like you're asking for a computer in an enclosure.
It would need some type of video card to output video, plus a processor for DVD/MPEG, etc.

 

[adamcube]

But I have seen these around.

Just simply not quite what I need.

 

[nobly]

Hmm I did a Google search for "HDD enclosure s-video" and came up with this...

http://www.xpcgear.com/ue820mb.html
http://www.shop4tech.com/?go=view_item&id=4060&r=183

kind of what you're looking for? they must all come with a remote to control it.

 

[Crashman]

I've used the Vantec Avox, it was fairly good, you can read about it at:
http://www.sysopt.com/features/network/article.php/3568291

 

[adamcube]

Thanks very much for your help.

The http://www.xpcgear.com/ue820mb.html especially is almost perfect.

Although I'd prefer a 3.5" enclosure as the drives are cheaper - or is this asking too much?

Thanks again.

 

[Crashman]

http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/03/10/mvix_adds_multimedia_player_sauces_to_external_storage/

That should work

 

[adamcube]

I really like that device alot, and it's just the sort of thing I'm looking for.

The only problem is that it costs around £150 ($250).

That is unfotunately too far out of reach for me and for that money I would be able to put together a basic Mini-ITX system.