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cheap USB drive sold for 4x the price

he's just taking a cheap $5-$15 USB thumb drive and loading "patchstick" software on it and selling it for a huge markup.

See:

http://www.appletvhacks.net/ and

http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Step_by_Step_Guide_to_Playing_DivX_Files_from_a_NAS and

http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Patchstick



If those steps are beyond your technical capabilities (or you don't want to download a pre-made patchstick image from various torrent sites) then this might be a good deal.

But essentially, you're buying a cheap piece of hardware loaded with software developed by people other than the seller who is just (free)loading on the hard work of others.
 
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