Plugged the cable from the HD into the USB port on the TV &......naff all. It works on the computer though. The telly manual is a bit vague but it's only 2 yrs old & I would've thought it would be like, plug it in & go but with the HD plugged in & 'Media Server' selected on the tv menu, it just says 'server not found'
WTF?
Can't do it like that on my Sony, you can record and play back via a USB drive, but it needs to format it first.
Sounds like you you need to plug the disk into a computer and set it up as a DLNA server to stream the media.
Some NAS's can be set up as DLNA players also
I think you might need some computery gubbins reading the hard disk and telling the telly what things look like.
Telly's probably not clever enough on its own.
hard disk>laptop>telly and you'll be grand.
Hard disc is not a media server. Well, some are but yours probably isn't.
IIRC the external drive needs to be reformatted before you use it as a media drive for a Panasonic telly, tried this once after much faffage when we first got it and decided it was far too much hassle.
I use one of these on mine
silly question but is the usb on the tv powered??
if not it wont work?
xbmc on the pc and life is golden
16gb usb3 for days you can´t spare the comp
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From what I recall from mine, the external hard drive has to be powered externally and anything recorded from the TV can only be played on that TV.
Thats what it looks like, think I'll look into Crag's idea.
[i]xbmc on the pc and life is golden
16gb usb3 for days you can´t spare the comp[/i]
Cheers sunnrider, I've given that to a mate at Mi6, see if he can break it! 😉
lol
Let me rephrase it.
Install XBMC, a media frontend, on your computer.
http://xbmc.org/download/
If you can´t spare the computer, then get a nice fast usb stick and play movies from that. Panasonic are quite good for diff. video formats.
Here´s what xbmc looks like in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZfrjhqwK9w
Works really well with a windows mce remote.