Nov292011

How can I watch movies from an external hard drive on my Samsung TV?

Jessica asks:

We recently purchased a new Samsung TV with a USB port in the back. We wanted to watch movies off our external hard drive on the TV (they are .avi files). When the hard drive is plugged into the TV, it can’t read any movies, it says there aren’t any on it. Any idea what I can do to view off of it?



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Anonymous

November 29, 2011

External hard drive must be formated fat32

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Jay

November 29, 2011

what is the format of hard disk, and what is the format of the movies ?
only movies are not detected or the tv cant read anything from the disk?
do it read oher files like pictures or music ?
some tvs can play only images.

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FIDELIS

November 30, 2011

Hello, by default external hard drive has to be fat32 formatted.  Mind you, there are some TVs that accept input from NTFS formatted external hard drives.

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Amanda

January 26, 2012

Jessica, I sympothise!  I purchased a Samsung TV – making sure that it had a USB port just so that I could watch movies from a USB key – but as you are saying – the TV does not see them.  Have you found a work around?

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Mst

January 28, 2012

Dear ha14 and FIDELIS – how do you format the external hard drive to become fat32?