[retroafroman]

There are cheap media players that you can use to plug in a flash drive. Here are some examples from DealExtreme, but I'm sure you can find similar stuff on eBay or even maybe Amazon. Some will even play HD over HDMI, they say.

http://www.dealextreme.com/p/umini-1080p-media-player-with-s... http://www.dealextreme.com/p/mini-rm-rmvb-mpeg4-media-player...