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5232247
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External Hard Drive

Hi all, 

I recently upgraded from a Sony Bravia kdl-55w905a to Sony Bravia KD55A1 .

 

 

I had an external hard drive plugged into the side USB of the 55w905a which worked great and played more or less anything i threw at it. However since upgrading to the A1, it is only pickup up half a dozen files and out of those, the names of them are completely random "£$xblcneu". They are also only accessable via the Google Video app.

 

I tried download VLC and its doing the same thing. 

 

I tried plugging the hard drive back into the 55w905a and it still works great, and tried plugging it back into my PC (also no issues).

 

Is this a driver issue? A file format issue? or a Hard drive format issue? (None of which make sense to me since the older model works fine) 

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

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Sean_Mc
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Hi 5232247,

 

It might be possible that the Hard Drive is not compatible with your TV.

 

You can find more details here on which HDD are compatible.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Thanks,

Sean Mc