Bought Passport Essential to store movies on. Trouble is TV isn't recognising USB connection

Can anyone point me in the right direction.  I have just bought  Passport Essential WDBAAA5000ARD to store monives on put 1 movie to try onto WD then connected to Samsung TV wouldn’t recognise the USB connection. Went back to the computer & the movie played through the computer.  Copied movie onto smaller USB  & TV recognised it & could watch movie.  Is there something else I need to download?

There’s 2 possibilities here:

  1. Your Sammy TV expects FAT32 and not NTFS
  2. Your TV won’t recognize the drive, because of the Unlocker partition.

The drive never said it was compatable with  Samsung TVs, unless your TV is running Windows or OSX.

Compatibility

 

  • Formatted NTFS
  • Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7
  • Requires reformatting for Mac OS X Leopard, Snow Leopard