On Tuesday, 25 February 2025 21:34:11 Greenwich Mean Time Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 08:21:08PM +0000 schrieb Michael:
> > Some 'smart' TVs won't use a USB drive unless and until they've formatted > > it first. I've attached a 3" drive in a USB 3.0 docking station and it > > worked fine *after* it was formatted. Then it wouldn't unmount it, even > > after I had shutdown the TV. I can't recall what fs format it had used. > > As I mentioned, I have a Sony TV. Sony is not known to be customer-friendly > with regards to openness and Digital Restrictions Management. But since it’s > GoogleTV, it eats sticks and HDDs alike. I actually have a USB 2 extension > cord dangling from the back to the front. > > I don’t even have to format it with the TV. It will only add all the > Android-typical directories when I stick in a drive for the first time. The > only case when I would need to format a drive: if I want to use it to record > TV onto it. Because then the recording is DRM-entangled to only be > watchable on that TV. Yes, this ^^^^. I had forgotten the formatting was related to also adding encryption to protect DRM content.
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