wangel Posted May 20, 2015 #1 Share Posted May 20, 2015 We are on the Celebrity Summit in about 3 weeks going to Bermuda. Our daughter is a big TV addict and would rather just stay in the cabin watching TV. We want to fill up a jump drive of movies for her to watch. So here are my questions: Do the in room TV's on the Summit allow for a jump drive? We will be on Deck 7 in an inside cabin. Any idea on what format? Probably AVI would be most common? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illyria Posted May 20, 2015 #2 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Any idea on what format? Probably AVI would be most common? AVI files consist of encoded video that has to be decoded to play back - I seriously doubt that the TV will have built-in codecs for that. You may be better off bringing a tablet or laptop and hooking it up to the TV via an HDMI cable. Or better yet, give your daughter a kick in the rear and drag her outside once in a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surrey_Pirates Posted May 20, 2015 #3 Share Posted May 20, 2015 AVI files consist of encoded video that has to be decoded to play back - I seriously doubt that the TV will have built-in codecs for that. You may be better off bringing a tablet or laptop and hooking it up to the TV via an HDMI cable. Or better yet, give your daughter a kick in the rear and drag her outside once in a while. Here here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECCruise Posted May 20, 2015 #4 Share Posted May 20, 2015 No option that we have ever seen for a USB port that would accommodate that. And every Celebrity ship we've been on has had the HDMI ports disabled so not to be used. Some have come up with convoluted ways of enabling the HDMI ports (purchase another remote, etc.) but way too much trouble for us to watch a video. If we want to, we just watch it on the laptop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-Airbalancer Posted May 20, 2015 #5 Share Posted May 20, 2015 AVI files consist of encoded video that has to be decoded to play back - I seriously doubt that the TV will have built-in codecs for that. You may be better off bringing a tablet or laptop and hooking it up to the TV via an HDMI cable. Or better yet, give your daughter a kick in the rear and drag her outside once in a while. Really, give the OP a break :rolleyes: Try getting a wireless hard drive and use a tablet to watch programs http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=1330 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patty1955 Posted May 20, 2015 #6 Share Posted May 20, 2015 No option that we have ever seen for a USB port that would accommodate that.And every Celebrity ship we've been on has had the HDMI ports disabled so not to be used. Some have come up with convoluted ways of enabling the HDMI ports (purchase another remote, etc.) but way too much trouble for us to watch a video. If we want to, we just watch it on the laptop. We've never had a problem hooking up to the HDMI port. Nothing convoluted, just plugged it in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECCruise Posted May 20, 2015 #7 Share Posted May 20, 2015 We've never had a problem hooking up to the HDMI port. Nothing convoluted, just plugged it in. You must have the magic touch! How do you switch the input? There is no input on the remote and the input on the side of the appliance is dead. Close to 20 Celebrity cruises in all classes since the flat screen upgrades and never worked for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patty1955 Posted May 20, 2015 #8 Share Posted May 20, 2015 How do you switch the input? There is no input on the remote and the input on the side of the appliance is dead. Close to 20 Celebrity cruises in all classes since the flat screen upgrades and never worked for us. We've never had to change the imput. We just unplug what they have and plug in our HDMI. Maybe we've just been lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare cruisestitch Posted May 20, 2015 #9 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Just tried it on Millenium and it doesn't work in my stateroom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charmed101 Posted May 21, 2015 #10 Share Posted May 21, 2015 HI all, not sure if you can do this as I have not tried it yet (Apr/2016). But I did read on another post (celebrity ship, cannot remember the ships name) that a passenger called guest relations and requested the HDMI slot to be "enabled" so that their daughter could hook up her labtop to watch movies. They had no problem with it and a staff member from the IT came to their cabin and did it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECCruise Posted May 21, 2015 #11 Share Posted May 21, 2015 I think the difference here is some are trying to use an unused HDMI port (which generally will not work) and others are unplugging Celebrity's interactive system (which we will not do since they put it there) and it will work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevilinaBluDress Posted May 22, 2015 #12 Share Posted May 22, 2015 On the Equinox, we were able to connect the HDMI after asking It to unlock the extra HDMI port. No problem! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FRMPEI Posted May 22, 2015 #13 Share Posted May 22, 2015 We've never had to change the imput. We just unplug what they have and plug in our HDMI. Maybe we've just been lucky. Hi Pat, You are right! When you travel on "S" class ships not all are equal. Silhouette for example you can simply unplug the second "HDMI" port used by the ship and plug your personal stuff into this same port. But on Equinox they use the DVI port instead of an HDMI Port. Regards, Kevin Reid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Tom-n-Cheryl Posted May 22, 2015 #14 Share Posted May 22, 2015 Mark me down as a "convoluted" soul ! I purchased a remote (barely $10 on Amazon) for their brand of TV's - Samsung as I recall. Then did some research and learned how to turn the "Hotel Mode" off. It works, but is somewhat of a hassle. For those who have simply asked for an HDMI port to be enabled once onboard, did you still retain the functionality of the regular ship TV service ? Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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