external hard drive

I enjoy downloading movies, putting them on my external hard drive and plugging it into my TVs. I didn't have any problems until I bought a MAC. I called mac and they told me that the hard drive I own is formatted in NTFS which is not compatible with MAC. I then bought a compatible hard drive (EXFAT) and was able to put movies from my MAC to the hard drive. The problem I have now is both my TVs and my blue-ray player won't read the hard drive. I was told EXFAT was comparable with MAC and windows machines..?? Any help would be great.
Please help!!!!

I was told EXFAT was comparable with MAC and windows machines..?? Any help would be great.

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That's correct, exFAT is compatible with your Mac and a Windows machine. However, your TVs and Blue Ray player are NOT Windows machines. You will need to use NTFS for the TVs. As for the Blue Ray player, it should be able to play both Blue Ray and standard movies.

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chscag said:

That's correct, exFAT is compatible with your Mac and a Windows machine. However, your TVs and Blue Ray player are NOT Windows machines. You will need to use NTFS for the TVs. As for the Blue Ray player, it should be able to play both Blue Ray and standard movies.

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The problem I'm having is getting a drive that is compatible with the MAC and the TVs. I can not transfer files from the MAC to NTFS formatted drive and it seems that NTFS is the only formatting my TV will read. They won't read the EXFAT formatting data. Does that make any sense?

I think member chscag is on the right track. The TV and Blu Ray player need the drive to be formatted as NTFS. Problem is that your Mac can't write the movies to that NTFS drive without a little help. Give http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/ a try. It will allow your Mac to write to NTFS drives. I believe there is a demo versio

okay thanks...I'll give that a try

Also, MAC is not capped because its not an acronym ... it's just short for "Macintosh." Apple is the name of the company that made your Mac.

oneandonly317 said:

okay thanks...I'll give that a try

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If/When you try this please post back and let us know whether it works. I can't test this as my current TV doesn't have that capability.

Ya, thanks bro. Thanks for letting me know the MAC stands for Macintosh.

Slydude said:

If/When you try this please post back and let us know whether it works. I can't test this as my current TV doesn't have that capability.

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Slydude- I downloaded it and it works fine. It is on a 10 day trial period so I'm not sure how much the full version cost. Thanks a bunch though!!

It's currently $19.95 U.S. and well worth it. I have been using it for a while now with no issues. Don't have to use it often but when needed it has been rock solid. Did it solve your problem sharing a drive between Mac and your TVs?

oneandonly317 said:

Thanks for letting me know the MAC stands for Macintosh.

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- "Mac" = Macintosh
- "MAC" ≠ Macintosh

* Nick

And the banker never wears a mack in the pouring rain, very strange.

In "British English", a mack is a raincoat, especially one made from a particular kind of waterproof cloth. It is an abbreviation of the word mackintosh
In north America, Mac is a form to address a male stranger. https://answers.yahoo.com/question/...banker never wears a mack in the pouring rain (with spelling corrected)

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In my user name, MAC stands in for Mac. I wanted to use mac, but couldn't. So it's MAC "in" tosh, or to...sh, thus; Macintosh. Poetic license, or something...