joeboy75 - 8 mins ago »
i have an old single tuner 1000s and there are 2 USB ports , and i intend to use one for recording TV programmes and the other for a portable hard drive with pre-loaded films on , does it matter which USB port i use as don't want to record onto my pre-recorded film drive
The hdd you use to record to is formatted with a propriety file system. It cannot be used with anything else without it being reformatted using a standard file system that the OS on the device can use.
I would use the rear port as the recording drive because there is no need to disconnect it. Presumably you want to copy files to it from another device.
However the built in media player isn't very good in playing back files recorded in anything but 50 Hz refresh.
24fps content (common on movies) can be very jerky due to the drop frame processing used to output at 60Hz.
A much superior solution is to set up a plex server on the device with the movie files.
Connect a 4K firestick to your display. Add a plex client and it will match the exact frameates contained in the recordings.
https://www.aftvnews.com/explanation-of-the-new-frame-rate-matching-feature-on-the-amazon-fire-tv/
Plex is free for both devices,