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Old 14-07-2009, 19:37
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One film successfully copied to my mobile HDD using Fatr32. Many thanks to all for your help and a new thread coming up with a question regarding the next stage.
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Old 15-07-2009, 08:58
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One film successfully copied to my mobile HDD using Fatr32. Many thanks to all for your help and a new thread coming up with a question regarding the next stage.
Did you mean ext3?

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Old 18-07-2009, 21:38
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Andrue is correct, we've had discussions about NTFS in in current products and more recently about future products. However it was not deemed viable because we could only support NTFS 'read' with a degree of reliability and write would have been more than uncertain. Any convenience that adding a read-only capability of a propitiatory file-system would have created would have been dramatically out weighed by the level of confusion, and expectation, for the majority of consumers.

It might be disappointing but that's the way the cookie crumbles, the situation might change in future but I don't see Microsoft contributing code to the effort any time soon. Overall these devices are consumer electronics and not computers, they might use technologies found in computing but often the design must take into account a different use case which demands a different approach.

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Old 19-07-2009, 09:14
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Did you mean ext3?

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Old 19-07-2009, 11:02
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Your other thread indicated you had copied a 2GB film with 5MB sidecar files, that's why I asked, as I misread it for 5GB

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Old 19-07-2009, 14:59
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No chance (well, very little chance) of NTFS being supported on the HDR.

NTFS is a propriety Microsoft 'trade secret'. If Humax were to use it they'd have to pay Microsoft a load of wonga, which I'd assume they aren't prepared to do.
IIRC a few years ago MS claimed that they owned the patent for FAT and started challenge manufacturers who included it within their devices for writing to memory cards etc. I'm not sure how far they got or whether everyone stumps up these days?

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