Recording off Samsung Smart TV to USB?!

LONDON_SMOGGY

Is this possible?

I have 3 models of Samsung:

40 inch UE40E5300

26 inch UE26EH4500

22 inch UE22H5610

I bought a 500gb flash drive to use to record on the new 22 inch Samsung as it said my 1gb flash drive was too small, now after formatting it on the tv instructions it still doesnt work on the 500gb hard drive!

What do I need to be able to record to a flash drive, would prefer flash drive and not hard drive if possible as smaller.

Also the 40 inch and 26 inch older Samsung models are these compatible with USB recording and what would they need?

Also how many GB will one hour of tv on average take up?

Thanks

LONDON_SMOGGY

Looks like I can record to my old pc external hard drive of 250gb with my new 22 inch tv but when I disconnect that and go to try and play the tv recordings on the older tvs it doesnt recognise any files! Any way around this, If I bought a new modern hard drive would I be able to record off new 22 inch tv and playback on the older tvs?

enfield_freddy

the drive would just be the same , its the TVs that are different , a common problem

LONDON_SMOGGY

So how would I get it working, is it not possible to have one drive to suit all? Oddly the hard rive is partitioned into 2, if I just changed it all into one NTFS the tv recordings should play on the old tvs right? I only want to record tv on this hard drive, I have another hard drive for films etc which works and plays fine on the older tvs

enfield_freddy

when you connect a drive and set it up for recording the TV will format and partition the drive , usually to a weird Linux type system, this partition is not usually readable by a home PC (windows)


what is happening is that the partitioning/fornmatting is slightly different between the TVs , and as such other tvs cannot read or write to that drive , I think if you reformat the drive in windows (try mini partition tools http://www.partitionwizard.com/partition-magic-free.html?gclid=CjwKEAjwmZWvBRCCqrDK_8atgBUSJACnib3l8NKQrlIVY36SyC_RvYuLjUqT6uHnFQG128tutCadfBoCiiPw_wcB
the drive will simply reformat back to its standard and back to square one.


you could try a newly formatted disk in another tv , let it format and record , then move it to the second and 3rd tv , you may find that one format table actually works on 2 TVs


with the cost of drives coming down , you might want to get a dedicated drive per tv , however that will still not let you record in the lounge and play in the bedroom


you will have to treat each drive as a dedicated vid recorder

LONDON_SMOGGY

Hmm seems annoying, tbh the old tvs aren't capable of recording to hard drive it seems, I click record button on them even with a hard drive plugged in and it says function not available, it does have an all share thing but I have no idea what that is, the older tvs play films from a hard drive fine its just frustrating they dont play recorded tv from a hard drive. Must be a way I can change the files on the hard drive to play on all, I have merged all the drive into 1 and tried both ex fat and ntfs which works fine recording from tv on the new samsung but still the hard drive isnt recognised on the old tvs. When I had it partitioned the hard drive was recognised on the old tvs but it only came up with the files/videos/pictures display not the recorded tv option!

LONDON_SMOGGY

Yeah I maybe could get another drive for the older tvs but I stil dont know how or if they are capable of recording where would I find out? they are both compayible with each other it seens. I might have to just keep the new technology in the loft only and buy a new hard drive for downstairs which i can watch in the main bedroom and move between both.

LONDON_SMOGGY

Any idea I can find if it is possible to record off a samsung UE40E5300? cant find anything on google

baza52

I have a Sammy and I'm sure the TV will only recognise a drive with a certain transfer rate.
I have tried cheap USB drives and they wont work.
I have a laptop drive in an enclosure and it works fine. Plus its small enough to store behind the TV.

LONDON_SMOGGY

I have tried a 1TB samsung modern drive (6 months old), a 500gb flash drive and my old (5 years old) laptop 250gb drive in enclosure.

My laptop drive in enclosure works for the 22 inch modern samsung but not the others! I have tried all three storage drives in the old samsung, they are all recognised and load up the play files screen straight away, however when I press the record button on the remote it just says 'not available' I do not need to do anything else do I? It should just go into the performance test and format from that shouldnt it? As it does when I put my laptop drive in enclosure into my latest samsung

baza52

from memory you have to format the drive so it cab be written to by the tv as it cant do it with an ntfs or fat drive.
I would use the largest drive and partition it.
1 partition in fat and the other for the TV's OS, that way you can plug it into your pc and add media files.

I'm sure the option to initialise a drive was in the settings somewhere.
Sorry I'm so vague lol