Friends hard drive plays files on blu ray player but when plugged into computer, shows nothing

tj_16_

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I went to my friends house and his seagate 4TB external hard drive AND his seagate personal cloud play files when the two drives are accessed from a samsung blu ray player. When the drives are plugged into a computer, nothing shows up... does anyone know how my friend might have done this?
 

JaredDM

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I'd have to know more about the specific setup to give any definitive answer. However, I'd guess that his BluRay player has a sort of DVR function allowing for recordings to be made. Many DVRs encrypt the data so as to not facilitate piracy and easy internet sharing of recordings.