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Seagate FreeAgent Theater HD media player: Making it easy to play TV from a hard drive

By David Carnoy on 08 January 2009, 1:16pm

CES 2009

Seagate's latest product, the Seagate FreeAgent Theater HD media player, connects to your TV and plays back video, pictures, and music from an external hard drive.

It works like this: you transfer files from your computer to your FreeAgent Go hard drive -- or another storage device -- then dock the device in the FreeAgent Theater via a USB connection.

The little black box has the processing power and the codecs onboard to read a wide variety of file formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, and DIVX files with support for NTSC, PAL, and HD resolutions up to 1080i (there's also support for subtitles).

The audio formats supported include 5.1-channel surround sound (if available) and popular digital-audio formats including MP3, WMA, WAV, and OGG. Naturally, there an easy-to-use onscreen interface that makes navigating your files easier.

The Seagate FreeAgent Theater HD Media Player will be available in March in the US and cost $130 as a stand-alone unit, $230 with a 250GB hard drive or $300 with a 500GB. All configurations include a remote.

Source: Seagate's new living-room accessory: The FreeAgent Theater HD media player on Crave US

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