Can you watch movies in .avi format on a ps3 that are saved on a portable hard drive?

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I was getting movies that are in .avi format and putting them on a portable hard drive and was watching them on my xbox 360. I was thinking of switching to a ps3 and was wondering if you can watch them on the playstation 3???

Answer
Yeah, you can. The good thing about the PS3 is that it supports way more audio and video formats than the Xbox 360, which is great if you have a diverse media library, but a horrible problem is that it can't read NTFS-formatted hard drives, only FAT, which sucks.

PS3 - Compatable portable hard drives?

Q. Just wondering is there anyway a portable hard drive would play avi files straight from the hard drive if connected to the PS3 through the USB fitting. or do thay always have to be on the ps3's hard drive for that to work?
Every video file I have saved onto my PS3 Hard drive at present is an AVI file and works fine. Its just getting full the now.

IF i convert a portable one to FAT32 format, am I right in saying that would reduce the memory of the portable hard drive?

Answer
it has to be formatted in fat32 to play files , the ps3 does not play avi files , just convert each file to mp4 useing a simple video convertor , just google it , only use a free one

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