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A Hard Drive - DVD Player - Television Problem

kah22
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edited 16 June 2010 at 6:45PM in Techie Stuff
I’d appreciate some advice.

Last week I bought a Sony 32EX403 HD ready TV, 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.

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 - not blue ray. And that the dvd player can't show it in HD but I would have thought that it would have shown it in SD, after all if I buy a DVD that's in HD format and pop it into my player it seems 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

edit my laptops os is Windows XP

Comments

  • aliEnRIK
    aliEnRIK Posts: 17,741 Forumite
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    I hope you downloaded legally as otherwise we're not allowed to talk about this
    Assumng its legal, the file simply isnt compatible with your device (Theres quite a few different types of HD files, my PS3 for example wont play MKV files but will play them if converted)
    :idea:
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