I just bought myself a new high capacity (1TB) 2,5" USB drive (Hitachi).
My idea was to hook it up to my BDP5200/12 player.

Unfortunately the formatted disk was NTFS which is mostly used in today's PC's.
Another format called Exfat is also not supported by the Phips player
The Philips player supports only FAT16 and FAT32 formatted harddisks.

Can I expect Philips to update by software the USB driver in that it supports NTFS?

This would be a very welcome feature to an already outstanding player.