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Old 02-11-2014, 21:19
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Ive been having problems with my external hard drive plugged into my Toshiba 32W1333DG tv. I'll be half way through watching something and I get a message on screen saying "usb disconnected" then it goes back to the normal tv channels. I hadn't had this problem for a few months but now all of a sudden I'm getting this. I have made sure the lead is in properly, I've put it into the other USB slot but the same happens I have even updgraded the firmware to see if it was that but its not that either. In the instruction manual it says it plays most types of videos but have found out it only plays MP4's.

What the solution?
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Old 03-11-2014, 16:48
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Old 04-11-2014, 13:45
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if your watching something and it suddenly stops, I wonder if the Hard Drive is goosed ?

If it doesn't play a certain film, then the encoding in that File is not supported by your tv.

If you click on the File on your laptop of the USB hard drive, right click the File & look at the properties, you can use Super to convert your files.

Or get a media player that plays any File.

Xbox One/ xbox 360 / PS 3 also if you have them
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Old 06-11-2014, 09:51
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if your watching something and it suddenly stops, I wonder if the Hard Drive is goosed ?

If it doesn't play a certain film, then the encoding in that File is not supported by your tv.

If you click on the File on your laptop of the USB hard drive, right click the File & look at the properties, you can use Super to convert your files.

Or get a media player that plays any File.

Xbox One/ xbox 360 / PS 3 also if you have them
Despite the manual saying it can play any video file it only plays mp4's which I have put on the hard drive yet it still spazzes out
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Old 06-11-2014, 10:00
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Despite the manual saying it can play any video file it only plays mp4's which I have put on the hard drive yet it still spazzes out
Have you plugged the drive into a computer and played the file on that? That would eliminate the drive and/or file being the problem.
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Old 06-11-2014, 10:04
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Have you plugged the drive into a computer and played the file on that? That would eliminate the drive and/or file being the problem.
Yep done all that, it does the same on all the things I have put on the hard drive when connected to the telly. I'd be half way through watching a prog and it'd disconnect and I'd lose where I was, highly annoying!! I bought this hard drive as a space saver instead of burning DVD's but seems the TV dont like it.
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Old 06-11-2014, 10:21
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So if you plug the hard drive into your computer and can play a file through to the end but on the telly it craps out halfway through that does point to the TV being the problem.

Do you have a USB flash drive to try instead of the hard drive? If so try dumping one of the files onto that and see if it plays on the TV or not. It could be the TV has a problem with hard drives and it might work with a flash drive.
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Old 06-11-2014, 10:23
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I would just use a cheap media player connected by HDMI. (Handy on holiday as well).

example

http://www.mymemory.co.uk/Memory-Car...eid=65bfe4671b
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Old 06-11-2014, 22:05
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So if you plug the hard drive into your computer and can play a file through to the end but on the telly it craps out halfway through that does point to the TV being the problem.

Do you have a USB flash drive to try instead of the hard drive? If so try dumping one of the files onto that and see if it plays on the TV or not. It could be the TV has a problem with hard drives and it might work with a flash drive.
What a noob! no havent tried that yet, will dump a file onto one of my 4gb sticks and see if that works, if so then your right it'd be the hard drive. Also worth mentioning my hard drive doesnt have a plug.
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Old 06-11-2014, 22:09
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Try a different hard drive. If the problem persists, reformat HD on your computer in the filesystem supported by your tv and then try again.
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Old 06-11-2014, 22:21
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What a noob! no havent tried that yet, will dump a file onto one of my 4gb sticks and see if that works, if so then your right it'd be the hard drive. Also worth mentioning my hard drive doesnt have a plug.
That could very well be the problem!...

I have a couple of different types of these drives, one works on a TV and Sat box OK, the other one doesn't (draws too much power from the USB port).
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