Why does the TV not see the files on the disk?

Question

NTFS

I bought an external hard drive - WD Elements 4 TB. I formatted it in NTFS, uploaded movies (in mkv and avi formats) and wanted to watch them on the big screen on a Philips TV. I connect the disk via USB - but it doesn’t display any files ... On a flash drive I tried to carry small serials in a series - everything sees and opens normally, namely from the disk - it doesn’t see it. :( Please tell me what could be the problem and how to solve it?
PS FAT32 is not recommended - the limit of 4 gigabytes per file is not an option. Not a single movie in good quality weighs so much.

Answer 1

On a flash drive I tried to carry small serials by series - everything sees and opens normally

Throw a movie from the disk onto the flash drive first, see what happens.
Either the TV does not understand NTFS, or it cannot spin up the disk, or the disk is not MBR but in GPT, and again the TV does not understand.

Answer 2

Also try ext2/3/4 or btrfs.

Answer 3

Guys, maybe I'm writing too late, but the fact is that Phillips, unfortunately, has a limit on the size of the drive ... a maximum of 2TB ... i.e. the point is in the disk itself, in its size ... I myself have such a problem, I would have bought 2TB instead of 5TB