Why is my Seagate portable hard drive not connecting with my LG TV?

Can someone please help me figure out my problem. I recently purchased a Seagate Expansion Portable Hard Drive 2T, 3.0 USB compatible. As I own a MacBook Pro, I formatted it to fit my Mac instead of windows. I have finished downloading all my movies on to it and have connected it into my LG TV usb port but nothing happened. The little green light was on my hard drive indicating it was on and not a broken drive and the TV came up with a prompt saying 'USB Loading.." than immediately after it came up with "Problem on the USB Device. Please check USB". Yes I know the problem is that its formatted to Mac and there for the TV cannot read it. But I don't want to format it to windows for my MacBook doesn't read/write it, (If anyone can help me change that, that would be great!), (as I have another hard drive and it doesn't let me drag movies onto or out of it and only lets me see them,) and the hard drive will be rather useless, Plus I'm using Time Machine and I want to keep a BACK UP of my Mac on a partition of my hard drive (Which I have already done).
Please & Thank You,
Jaycee

Templeton Peck:
Well yes I know the problem to why it won't connect to my TV (the hard drive is Mac formatted) but I'm hoping someone would have a SOLUTION to the fact that I want it to stay in Mac format AND also somehow work with my tv (If thats even possible?..probably not) OR I can maybe change the format back AND hopefully can get it compatible with my Mac (Can that even be done too? Maybe download some prgram?) so I can still copy/past stuff off of it ---> Which by the way, I'm hopping also someone might have that solution too (Which I stated mildly up the top).
Also, I posted this up for the reason of which I would expect the people who read these know a little something about Mac/Apple Products (not necessarily about Mac formating but anything else really), So this question is technically about my MacBook for which my hard drive is MAC FORMATTED and that maybe theres a way for my MacBook to copy/past from my old hard drive which ISN'T Mac formatted (In saying that, I can just reformat my new one back IF there is a way for me to still copy/paste stuff off of it onto my MacBook).
So yea, I think this does has something to do with my Mac.
- Jaycee

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