topic KDL-40EX503 TV Flash drive compatibility in Other TVs

KDL-40EX503 TV Flash drive compatibility

jackbnimble — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 22:31:01 GMT

Would anybody know if the Sony USM16GL Microvault Flash drive is compatible with the KDL-40EX503 TV please.

I have used various USB drives with very mixed results.

Also am i right in thinking that the Tv is only really happy playing MPEG videos?

Thanks in anticipation

Jack

KDL-40EX503 TV Flash drive compatibility

wetsleet — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 11:25:47 GMT

I have the KDL-40EX403. The only thing I have discovered, which Sony don't seem to mention, is that the USB connection does not work with NTFS formatted drives, only with FAT32.

Obviously you can reformat the drive into FAT32 if it comes supplied in NTFS - just do this before you load it up with all your files!

KDL-40EX503 TV Flash drive compatibility

BlueSmoke1000 — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 14:04:06 GMT

I've got a KDL-32EX403, and find it's very picky with what MPEGs it will play. I've got recordings in standard DVB-S compliant MPEG from a satellite receiver that won't work.

If you've got MPEGs that won't play, have a look at my post here : http://www.sony.co.uk/discussions/message/633283#633283 where I've detailed how to get DVB compliant MPEGS to play on Sony Bravia by wrapping them in a .m2ts container file - this does not re-encode the video, so there's no loss in quality that you might otherwise see if you reconverted to (say) divx.

As the previous poster said, USB drive compatibility seems to be more down to how the drive is formatted - you need FAT or FAT32. I've yet to encounter problems with any drive formatted with this.

Lack of NTFS support is understandable, I think. I'm disappointed there isn't support for the newer exFAT format though, which allows for much larger (ie video!) size files.