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[rosiew]

My sister has a TV with a USB port which only shows pictures. She was going to buy a new DVD player that has a USB Port but when we told the assistant what we needed it for, he suggested a lead that plugged into the TV (the red white and yellow) lead with a USB port at the other end, he stated that it would only cost a few pound so a lot cheaper than a new DVD player. She telephoned Maplins and it was £39.99 but he told her that it was a USB hard drive. This would cost a lot more than a DVD player. She does not want a fancy DVD, she only wants to be able to watch a film that is on a USB stick. Any advice AnswerBankers

[Old_Geezer]

A lead was a hard drive ? That sounds odd.

I'm unsure I understand the description of the issue. The film is on a flash drive ? In which case it should be pluggable into the USB socket on the TV. I have no experience of this but I'd suspect you'd need some software on the USB drive to feed the film out of the USB port to the TV where it could pick it up as a data stream and show it.

Have a web search for (free) programmes that might do that for you.

[pauln90]

What make/ model of tv do you have

[rosiew]

Old Geezer, The film is on a USB stick and it plays on my Panasonic TV but when I plug it into her tv, it comes back with "no file found", her current DVD player has no USB ports so I have loaned her my Samsung Blu Ray until we can sort something out.

Pauln90, its an LG tv

[Old_Geezer]

Ah I see. The TV knows to look for and offer to play the movie file.

Check the file type on the disk. Maybe it is a format this LG does not recognise but which your Panasonic can. Or it may be a fault with the LG perhaps ?

[rosiew]

Thanks Geezer, I will try that.