Is it worth changing HDD over to FAT for playing on Sony Blu Ray player

[Dankriss]

Just got a Sony BDP-S370 and put in the HDD which worked fine on the Samsung I did have and it came up not recognised to looked into it and found out that the damn thing only excepts FAT HDD....now I know how to change it over from NTFS to FAT but is it worth it? I would obviously be using a brand new disc drive as I want to keep this one NTFS.

I can connect my computer to the TV but I get a flicker and would rather use the player.

BTW forgot to add I am talking about an external HDD...ooops

Thanks

Kriss

[edDV]

I just use an older small drive as the FAT32 DVD/Media player drive. Most of these players have limited file and directory structures.

Alternate is to partition a larger drive with one FAT32 and the other NTFS (or Mac or Linux).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_partitioning

[Dankriss]

I thought about partitioning but it says in the manual it won't read partitioned ones...

I have 2 external HDD drives one is large 200gb and one is small 80gb so thinking about doing the smaller one and just loading it with videos I have that I really want to watch.

Thanks for the advice

Kriss

[jagabo]

Note that FAT32 has a file size limit of 4 GB. Keep in mind that Blu-ray players are usually very limited as to what type of files they will play.

[Dankriss]

Is that individual files?

I noticed that in the manual..... will only be putting on those files...pity that the Sony one does not do the new mkv files the Samsung did...ahh well

Thanks

Kriss

[jman98]

Is that individual files?

Yes.

I wouldn't set up a drive that big as FAT32. Going forward with more and more video available in high def and correspondingly larger file sizes, I would think that it would not be very long at all before you started finding a lot of videos larger than 4 GB. You can already find plenty of such videos today.

Depending on your point of view, you can either blame Microsoft's licensing costs for NTFS for being too high or the manufacturers for being too cheap to pay the licensing fee. In my opinion it's probably mostly the latter.

[Dankriss]

Yeah the only reason I want it is I have some stuff from youtube and from friends ie .mov and instead of putting them on disc and using more money I like to watch on the tv from the HDD.

I know Samsung paid but then Sony are in slight competition with Microsoft so I can see why they wouldn't pay it...LOL

Kriss

[edDV]

I thought about partitioning but it says in the manual it won't read partitioned ones...

For my limited set of players, if you create a primary FAT32 partition and then an extended NTFS partition, the players will see that primary FAT32 partition. Worth a try on your Sony.

[jagabo]

Get a WDTV or other media player instead.

[Dankriss]

I thought about partitioning but it says in the manual it won't read partitioned ones...

For my limited set of players, if you create a primary FAT32 partition and then an extended NTFS partition, the players will see that primary FAT32 partition. Worth a try on your Sony.

That might be a good idea...mmmm...will look it up...thanks

And jagabo...if I had the money...LOL

Kriss

[edDV]

Gparted is a good free partitioning program
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GParted

[Dankriss]

Thank you I will look into that...

Kriss