LG Smart TV and External HDD

Harry Bloomfield · 2018-10-26T06:34:52+00:00

I have just taken delivery of our first smart TV, an LG. It has/had a lot to learn, but so far all working and I am very impressed with all the new facilities I have found in it so far. It needs some sort of external storage for some of its facilities to work and it seems that can be a USB stick or a USB HDD. The largest stick I could find was 1Gb, which the TV rejected as too small, besides which I have read somewhere that sticks don't last very long in TV type use due constant write/read - is that true? I had a spare 2.5 HDD USB powered, in a caddy, bought some 5 years ago, so I am trialing that. It all works as you would expect, apart from it not seeming to power down when not in use. When the TV is put to standby, it powers down, but seems to run when in use or not, despite enabling it to go to standby in the TV's menu. When the TV is put to standby, the HDD continues to flash for several seconds after the TV goes to standby, then goes off with a reassuring clunk as it parks. On live TV, its LED flashes constantly. When I watch something streamed from the Internet (BBCi), the LED shows lit steady. LG's helpdesk, seem to be suggesting that my HDD may not support going into standby - me, I cannot see how it might decide to go to standby, with the HDD being constantly accessed, as evidenced by the LED flashing - but what/why is it accessing the HDD?

Oct 26, 2018 42 Replies

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Harry Bloomfield 7 years ago

John Rumm formulated the question :

Thanks, yes found it at last - its the same in WebOS 3.5

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alan_m 7 years ago

The last three .ts on my Enigma 2 box are

2.036G, 2.22G and 2.04G with around a total of 8 minutes of pre and post padding in each recording

For the same recordings I also have .ts.sc files of

1.39G, 1.39G and 1.63G the .ts.cs contains information for cutting the program. Probably the size of the transport stream with the padding removed - cut at the program accurate start/end markers.

Associated data files are around 60 to 70k bytes for each recording

So depending on what your TV/STB is recording and what extra information it stores at the same time it may require approx. 3.5G/hour for HD.

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alan_m 7 years ago

Often there is a delay of many minutes before a disk goes to sleep

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