I own a LG Plasma 42PQ2 tv and I want to watch movies from an external hard drive through the USB port but it does not show any movie files on the hard drive.

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USB Flash Drive Movies on your Flat Screen TV - YouTube

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How to watch Movies & Photos from your USB Flash Drive via the USB Port on your Flat Screen TV.

Watch a movie on your TV from a USB drive. - YouTube

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I'm trying to play movies from my USB port, but when I plug it I can't .... My LG 47" TV will recognize and open the flash drive, but shows empty.

Some TV models have a USB port so that users could play videos and movies from USB on TV. You can try the following steps:

1. Connect your readable and writable USB drive to computer
2. Copy your movies to USB drive and then disconnect your USB drive from computer.
3. Connect the USB device to the Sony TV USB port. Turn on the connected USB device if necessary.
4. Press the HOME button on Sony remote controller to open the menu.
5. Enter the target USD drive.
6. Select the file you want to play back, and then press the play button to start playing movies on TV via USB drive.
It's quite easy to play movies from USB on smart TV devices.

The TV should support the file system to read the directory structure of the Hard disk and also the the file type to read the video file. Try mpeg / jpeg file on a thumb drive on the same USB port.

Try download a converter on the USB storage it's the tv it can't read the file

I suspect that with the age of the tv that it does not support videos from the USB drive. It will support update files for the tv itself which is normally something a technician would use it for.

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A: Does your tv have a usb port and drivers to recognize a hard drive? WE don't know you did not provide that information.
B: Same for your Blue ray player
C: Same for you router
D: Mac file system is not the same as Windows file system

Some TVs have usb port in the back, try connecting the external hard drive to it directly and then select the hard drive channel on the TV.

Your TV does not have a USB port so you cannot connect an external HDD and stream movies on to the TV. But you can buy a HDD based media player which has the necessary output sockets as well as all kinds of decoders built in to stream movies on to your TV.

Movies stored on a hard drive are not in a format that can be readily used by a TV. You need something to read the movie file, usually a laptop computer or a DVR of some type. Good luck.

The LG's will support an external USB hard drive, but it seems the USB support was intended for thumb drives, so yuo need to do the following to get it working:

1. the drive must be formatted FAT32 (like thumbdrives)
2. keep the file names short
3. keep the directory structure simple and as flat as possible

I have a 60GB laptop drive in a USB 2.0 enclosure drive working really nicely with good transfer rates. It takes it's power from the USB socket and is working fine.

Hope this helps.