I have a Sandisk USB 3.0 flash drive (16GB) in 'Mac OS Extended (Journaled)' format to accommodate films larger than 6GB .When I insert USB flash drive into a Sony BlueRay DVD Player connected to Sony Bravia TV the (USB) is unrecognised
No TV, DVD player or Windows computer can recognize a Mac-formatted hard disk or flash drive. You need to use Disk Utility to reformat the drive to 'MS-DOS(FAT)'.
Thank you Roger but will MS-DOS(FAT) accommodate large video files (mp4) i.e. over 6GB and less than 12 GB?
Looking at Wikipedia this seems a rather complicated issue; I can only suggest you try. If it doesn't I don't know what the alternative is because you are not going to be able to use Mac-Formatted.
FAT does not allow file sizes greater than 3GB. I would use a Windows PC to format the drive to NTFS format. That will be readable by most PCs and Macs, and allows file sizes larger than 3GB.
However Macs cannot write to NTFS volumes without third-party add-ons - please see
http://www.macbreaker.com/2014/06/how-to-enable-writing-to-ntfs-hard.html
You should try exFat. It's the latest from MS for larger size flash drive. Supports large file size.
see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT
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I have a Sandisk USB 3.0 flash drive (16GB) in 'Mac OS Extended (Journaled)' format to accommodate films larger than 6GB .When I insert USB flash drive into a Sony BlueRay DVD Player connected to Sony Bravia TV the (USB) is unrecognised
