DVD players are guaranteed to play DVD's, that's sure. Everything else is a bonus.
It's not an unlikely story. Two things you can do:
- try to play this new disk on a PC (the PC she used to put movies on it would be fine)
- copy a movie from the DVD to a USB-stick and try playing that
Please tell the results.
Hi All,
A friend of mine bought an external hard disk drive from a computer shop and it doesn't play on a DVD player and the computer shop where she bought it, told her that some DVD players are not powerful enough to play external hard disk drives, is this true?
Shouldn't a DVD player play an external hard disk drive? First time I heard that a DVD players aren't powerful enough to play external hard disk drive. She tried to play hard disk drive on different peoples DVD player and it doesn't play, yet her old external hard disk drive did play on DVD players.
Please advise?
Best regards,
Yanni

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