Portable Hard Drives...

[FCAV]

I'm looking for a little bit of help/advice on this.

I'm looking for an external hard drive, preferably of the smaller, portable type. I'm more than okay with a 1 TB.

What I'm hoping for is one that can either hardline into my Apple Airport Extreme/Extreme (not sure which I have, size of first gen Apple TV and a few years old) to the hard drive, or connect to my wireless so that I can just drag and drop files onto it.

I'd also like to be able to hook it up directly to my blu-ray player, which has a USB connection in the front.

Basically, what I'm doing now is dumping movies on a flash drive and playing them off the blu-ray. What I'm hoping to do is have the system set up where I can just do everything wirelessly and with ease. I currently have an external that is hooked up to the Apple router, but I have no way to leave it connected and have it hooked up to the blu-ray.

Any suggestions? Does such a device exist? I've searched new routers on Best Buy and Future Shop, but for a tech-idiot like me, it doesn't help much.

(If I'm doing a horrible job explaining, feel free to try to correct me/ask questions)

[Hanni]

Is there a reason you need to use the Blu-ray player as your media device? Wouldn't buying an Apple TV and streaming your videos straight from your Mac be a much simpler option? (I don't own an Apple TV but a quick search looks like it can do this)

[Hack&Lube]

What you need is an Apple TV, Chromecast, O!Play, Minix, Xios, etc. or some other media computer/media box plugged into your TV via HDMI. You can then plug a hard drive into that or stream directly (the better solution since you don't need two copies of all your movie files).

You cannot do this from an external drive only. You cannot do this with your old router or old Blu Ray player. You cannot have another interface into your hard drive when it is already connected to the Blu Ray player by physical link. It has to be done on the application layer.