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A Hard Drive - DVD Player - Television Problem
kah22
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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:
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
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
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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:0
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