You would have to read in the TV's manual about the formats that the TV recognizes. Once that is donw, all you have to do is connect your external hard drive to your TV and provided the files in your drive are compatible with TV, it should be able to read files and you should be able to view your movies.
You can do the following to format drive:- connect external to mac- go to Applications- select utilities- select disk utility- click on partition belonging to your external hard drive- select the partition (there should be only one)- choose msdos(fat) as your format- click on applyOnce your external is formatted with Fat32, copy/move the files back to your external from your mac. Once you format a drive, you loose all the information on it. Make sure to copy any files you have in your hard drive to a folder in your mac Hfs is compatible with mac.If you want to format your external hard drive to Fat32 in a mac you can use the mac utilities to format it. Ext2,3,4 are formats compatible with linux. Fat16 and fat are the precursors of Fat32 and are not widely used anymore.
Fat32 is an older format which can be used in linux, mac and pc. The most widely used format for PC is NTFS, which is the default for most new computers. There are several formats for hard drives, ntfs, fat32, (fat16, fat), ext2, ext3, ext4, hfs, etc. Mind you, there are some TVs that are to read NTFS formatted drives but in your case it is better to use Fat32 so that you mac can read it too.The reason your TV, can not read the contents of your drive is because it is formatted with HFS, which is a format compatible with MAC but not with your TV. The advantage of FAT32, is that it can be read in different operating system like mac, linux and windows. One disadvantage of FAt32, is that it does not allow files bigger than 4GBs.
Hello, If you want your TV to read your external drive it has to be formatted in FAT32.
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