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A Hard Drive - DVD Player - Television Problem

  • 16-06-2010 7:57pm
    #1
    kah22
    Registered Users Posts: 313 ✭✭


    I'll take a chance that this is the most appropriate thread.


    Last week I bought a Sony 32EX403 HD ready TV (it receives the RTE digital signal wonderfully North of the Border). I have a Toshiba SD DVD player, and an Iomega 1T external Hard Drive which I bought a few months back. My laptop is a old Dell inspiron 510m with precious little space left, operates with XP.

    As an experiment I downloaded a copy of an episode of a popular American TV show, a relatively recent film release, and a '70's classic.

    Now if I connect the Hard Drive to the DVD player via the USB port I get the following results:
    • I can quite easily watch the TV episode
    • When I attempt to watch the HD film the tv puts up the message ‘loading’ and almost instantly a message saying something along the line ‘HD not supported.’
    • Select the most recent film and it pops up the message ‘Loading,’ but that’s about it. I’ve actually had that film selected now for a good half an hour and it’s still giving the message ‘Loading…’

    Any idea as to what is going on?

    I'm assuming that the film was downloaded in a HD format - but not blue ray. And that the dvd player can't show it in HD, however, I would have thought that it could shown it in SD, after all if I buy a DVD that's in HD format and pop it into my player I'd expect it to work.

    The reason I bought the hard drive was to store my collection of films and before I go much further I want to try and figure out what’s wrong.

    As always many thanks for your help and support.

    Kevin


Comments

  • #2
    superleedsdub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 362 ✭✭superleedsdub


    Hi Kevin,

    It all depends on what file ext. the movie has -e.g. .avi can be played on alot of devices but .mkv won`t.....
    have a look at the manual of the DVD player to see what file extensions are supported but as most DVD players/tv`s have limited file support for devices connected via USB your best bet is to use a media player such as the WDTV live to watch your downloads/backups on.....these media playes support most video codecs and can be firmware upgraded to support new codecs


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