Calling Sony Bravia HD TV owners with photoshop

Hi.
Sony Bravia has a problem with Photoshop !
If a jpg is created in photoshop, 1920 x 1080 pixels, 72dpi, it wont play on a Sony Bravia TV via USB stick.
However it will play on a Panasonic HD TV and on a Samsung, so why is Bravia refusing them.
Furthermore it displays thumbnails ok, just wont play them full size !
If it is created in camera and loaded onto a PC then onto USB it will play on the Bravia.
Both were Adobe RGB colour space so it cant be that.
Any idea why ?
Standard or Optimised or Progressive, they all fail !
Gaps in file name or length make no difference.
unless its file extension .JPG or .jpg or perhaps .jpeg or .JPEG
I used CS2.
Basically anyone with a Sony Bravia and using Photoshop has a big problem here. Works ok on Samsung and Panasonic.
Means no ability to play my photos on a friends Bravia. Also means I wont be buying Sony !
I have seen mention of this by others on the internet. All shops tried so far exhibit this problem.
For those that experience this, whats happening ?
Envirographics

I recently purchased a 46" Bravia LED (model KDL-4EX620).
At work I had downloaded some really cool double screen wallpapers (2560x1024). All are jpg files, and I thought it would make a cool slide show with mellow music for my wife and I to enjoy while chatting over dinner and enjoying a glass of wine.
I was surprised when the TV showed some images, and with others I just got a black screen with the message of "Image cannot be displayed".
I looked up information on this, and found a couple of forums (all with recent replies) that mentioned the problem with newer Bravia TV's and they related it to manipulation in apps like Photoshop.
I used PS for a living, and I'm very familiar with JPEG format images, since I've been doing web desing since the mid 90's.
I'm very used to looking at JPEG as a standard, that should have no display problems, specially with recent technology!
I am aware though, that specially digital cameras, won't accept edited images to be displayed along with the originals on memory cards. Once edited, they will not show up on the camera's LCD.
I never really looked into this, and accepted it as a fact of life, so to speak.
But this issue with the TV really peaked my interest.
After chatting with SONY's support, I was pointed in the direction of a technical spec. listed on the TV model's details:
"- JPEG (JPEG format files with the extension “.jpg” and conforming to DCF 2.0 or Exif 2.21)"
And I'm not entirely sure about this, but it seems it's related to the aforementioned issue with edited images on a Camera.
Somebody here mentioned SRGB, vs Adobe's RGB.
I decided to make a test.
Using PS CS3, I ran ALL the images in the folder of the USB drive I had stuck into the TV for the slide show. The script is a standard script in the File menu of PS CS3: File/Scripts/Image Procesor...
Saving the images as JPEG, making sure I selected SRGB and maintaing ICC profile.
I re-saved all the images with this method, which in fact reduces file size (I guess it's not very lossless).
Presto, now NONE of the images display on the TV!!!
hehehehe, I guess it's a good thing, since it does relate PS as a culprit clashing with the DCF 2.0 or Exif 2.21 requirements the TV lists.
NOW... the question is, CAN I save from PS under that JPEG profile? Will I need a third party app? an additional plugin? any other apps you can think of?
There's a rather cheap option, but I'm not going to buy it just yet, until I find out that I can defenitely NOT use PS for this. I mean, c'mon, shouldn't a MUCH more expensive app be able to conform to standards fromt he 90's???
I know I can't change the TV's requirements, updating the firmware will not solve something that SONY doesn't consider a bug. It's a standard after all.

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