I can't get my new samsung hard drive to work with my mac and tv

I bought my first ever hard drive today. It is a Smasung M3 Portable 1.5 TB.
At first I plugged it in and it wouldn't let me drag anything from finder over to the hard drive. I did some research (googling) and followed the steps to change the format to 'Mac OS extended (Journaled)' which allowed me start dragging files across.
I then put a movie on the hard drive, waited for it to copy then plugged it into my TV (hoping to sit back and watch said movie). However the TV would not let me even open the hard drive.
I did some more "research" and read that if I changed the format to 'MS-DOS FAT' it would let me use the hard drive on Mac and PC. I tried that but still had the same trouble of the hard drive not working on the TV.
Basically, I want to use the hard drive as storage/ back up for my files BUT ALSO to put all of my movies on it and plug it into my TV.
Can someone please help me.
PS- I am not very tech savvy. I won't be able to do anything too technical.
Thanks you in advance (:

maybe this link will help http://www.makeuseof.com/answers/play-media-files-mac-formatted-external-hard-dr ive-hdtv/ unfortunately its for file up to 4 GB size, otherwise try to connect your mac directly to your Tv or I suggest contacting SAMSUNG about this issue, maybe the have assigned softwares for this formatting issues like in western digital for example.

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