My Sanyo LCD 40XR10F TV does not recongnise any mp4 movies i have on my external hardrive or usb stick?? Does it matter what size usb disk/drive/how many files are stored on them for it to play them?

You should be able to buy an external USB drive (or thumb drive) at any electronics store.
You can connect a USB hard disk drive or USB
memory stick to your TV by using the USB inputs of
the TV. This feature allows you to play files stored in
a USB drive. 2.5" and 3.5" inch (hdd with external
power supply) external hard disk drives are supported.
IMPORTANT! You should back up your files before
making any connections to the TV set in order to
avoid any possible data loss. Manufacturer will not
be responsible for any file damage or data loss. It is
possible that certain types of USB devices (e.g. MP3
Players) or USB hard disk drives/memory sticks may
not be compatible with this TV.
Quickly plugging and unplugging USB devices, is a
very hazardous operation. Do not repeatedly quickly
plug and unplug the drive. This may cause physical
damage to the USB player and USB device itself. Do
not pull out USB module while playing a file.
Media Browser Menu
You can play photo, music, and movie files stored
on a USB disk by connecting it to your TV and using
the Media Browser screen. To do this, perform the
following: Connect a USB disk to one of the USB
inputs located on the side of the TV.
You can connect two USB devices to your TV. If both
USB devices include music, picture or video files, USB
selection OSD will be displayed on the screen. The
first USB device connected to the TV will be named
as USB Drive1. Select a device by using up or down arrows
and press OK

Your passport is just an external hard disk. Perhaps it even contains movies, but without a PC or a media centre, capable of playing the movie formats you have on the hard disk you won't see any movie.
Sometimes you just need an extra device.
if you have a lot of MP4 media, ending on '.mov', '.m4v' of '.mp4', you can play them with the Apple TV. But I'm sure there are more devices capable of playing video formats.

Try creating a Folder on the USB Drive and moving some movies to that.
Lit me Know how you go.
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We have a Sanyo LCD 40xR10F(B) Tv. We bought a 2.0 TB Portable Hard Drive, brand Toshiba. Plugged it into Tv and nothing appeared. Rang Toshiba, and they advised that most tv\'s don\'t let you use more than 1 TB. Was advised to call Sanyo, but can\'t seem to reach them. Rang the place where I bought it from, (they were the ones that sold me this and said it would work), they said to download software from computer and save to usb then put on Tv and that should fix it. I am not sure on what I am meant to download. Can anyone help me please?

Hello
Try these codes.
004/ 013/ 049/ 108/ 110/ 180/ 209
0049 0097 0110 0004 0268 0012 0108 0180
Direct Code Entry

1. Press and hold the SETUP button until the red indicator stays on, then release the SETUP button.
2. Press and release the desired Mode button (TV, VCR, etc.). The red indicator blinks, then stays lit.
3. Enter the 4 digit code from the code tables. Note: after a valid code entry, the red indicator turns off. For an invalid code, the red indicator flashes.
4. With your device on, press CHANNEL UP. If the device responds, no further programming is required. Note: If some buttons do not operate your device, try one of the other codes for your brand.

This Toshiba TV will not support a external hard drive - SD or USB stick only and then keep it below 12gb as it cant handle it

No you can't download movies to the USB from a Sanyo LCD 40XR10F TV. You can view some movies stored on the USB, if in a correct video format to the Sanyo LCD 40XR10F TV using the built-in TV multi-media player. Due to updating of the TV, some formats may not play that once did.

The external storage device has several major components:

* USB cable

* external power-supply

* disk-drive inside the enclosure

* USB-to-disk-drive adapter inside the enclosure.

Try a different USB cable.
Try a different USB port on your computer.
Try a USB port on a different computer.

Take a multi-meter, and measure the output voltage/amperage of the power-supply,
and compare with the specifications on the label of the power-supply.

Open the enclosure, and remove the disk-drive, and attach it as a "slave" drive in a desktop computer, to see if bypassing the USB-to-disk-drive adapter bypasses the problem.

Look at the label on the disk-drive, for manufacturer, product-number, serial-number, and manufacture date. Access the manufacturer's web-site, and use "check warranty status" to see if the warranty still is valid. If so, the drive can be replaced, at minimal cost to you.

Buy a new, compatible, disk-drive, and install it in the enclosure, to "revive" your external storage device.

Search online for a professional "data recovery service". For a significant fee, they can repair your disk-drive, just long-enough to copy your files to a new disk-drive.

you could try formatting your hdd to fat32 also some times this media player has probs reading certain codecs and i also noticed that when a hdd is too full it does tend 2 play up a bit well they say for a hdd to run properly you got to have at leased 15% of free space also there is firmware upgrade out there for the tvd version of this player that works gr8 hope this helped you out ka kite

I do not know if the 1 Tb external hard will work on the USB ports on the LCD TVs.
What do you want to store on the 1 Tb USB hard drive and display on the LCD TVs?
Most LCD TVs can access USB memory sticks and display DVI movies (if supported by the TV), photos etc. that are stored on these USB memory sticks.
Try inserting an USB hard drive (borrow one if necessary, can be any capacity) into the USB port to see if it works before you decide to purchase a 1 Tb USB hard drive.
My suggestion would be to purchase a 1 Tb USB memory stick. This would out perform an external USB hard drive.