Hard drive to TV Problem?

Alright I have a 1tb hard drive from acomdata and I was having issues with transferring over 4gb. So i reformatted the drive to HFS+ and now i am able to transfer big amounts of data.
Heres my question, I was doing this because I was hooking up my hard drive to my Samsung LED tv to play bluray movies, but now the tv wont read the hard drive, what do I do?

Hi Sage74,
I don't own a Samsung TV that supports USB media access but I did a little research on their site:
http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/learningresources/tv/beyondtv/wiselinkpro_faq s.html
It's possible that HFS+ isn't support, perhaps the TV requires NTFS or FAT32. You might wish to reach out to Samsung as it doesn't sound like an issue with the Mac / computer.

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