I've got an external hard drive for movies and I use it on the tv.

lemon_chicken

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Jul 1, 2016
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Movies are showing up on external hard drive when plugged in to laptop but not when plugged into TV..

It was all working fine until I plugged the hard drive into the TV **

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Solution
The TV probably can't read the HDD's 'file system'. If all the movies are in the root of the hdd (rather than in folders), the tv might see them