YYDeckard
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Mate just bought a new Philips TV last week and it has two usb inputs - it’s fine playing mkv etc off one of my memory sticks but when I tried to use my other memory stIck in the other port so the tv would record to it it failed with “Formatting failed. this type of USB device cannot be used. Use another type of usb device”. I tried 4gb to 128 ones as in the manual it says it needs 4gb to pause live tv Which seems to indicate a memory stick would be fine as who has 4gb hard drives ?
heading for their help site it says ”
The USB Hard Drive needs to match the following specifications:
which I find incredible as basically on a brand new tv they want you to have some hard drive whirring away rather than a simple memory stick. Is this correct ? i have also mailed Philips direct to confirm.
i also rang Philips but my god their help line was terrible. Gave up after 15.
heading for their help site it says ”
The USB Hard Drive needs to match the following specifications:
- A minimum storage capacity of 250GB
- A minimum writing speed of 30MB/s
- A standard USB 2.0 or a USB 3.0 connection
- The hard drive preferably has its own power supply”
which I find incredible as basically on a brand new tv they want you to have some hard drive whirring away rather than a simple memory stick. Is this correct ? i have also mailed Philips direct to confirm.
i also rang Philips but my god their help line was terrible. Gave up after 15.
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