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Seagate FreeAgent Theater Plus HD Media Player

07 Jan, 2010, 9:58 am IST | by Siddharth Bhatia |

Following this trend over the past handful of months or so, we feel that conventional old DVD players are going to get obsolete. For the Home theater guys there is the Blu-ray player, and for those with scores of movies rips and dumps, there is the Hard-disk based media player. This last category has become a full fledged competitive market today. Not long ago it was still new amongst only the geeky junta. Today we have a model by Seagate called the FreeAgent Theater Plus, and it has everything one might need in a HDD player. Let’s plug it in...

 

Design and features
This model is not as slim and compact as its main competitor the WDTV, but it sure does hold its own in terms of aesthetics. It has glossy black casing, square shaped in top view, with a sloping front panel. Of course fingerprints will poise themselves like unwanted parasites, but that cannot be avoided, it’s the “curse of the gloss.” The Seagate logo lights up in white on the left corner of the façade, giving the product a modern and slick look.  

The back panel has all the connections, except one lone USB input that is the front. Besides that there is another USB in, optical out, HDMI out, Ethernet in (yes it’s network capable) composite and component video out. The player can work with Wi-Fi adapter, but the adapter is sold separately. Also there is a dock on the body of the player itself, for attaching Seagate FreeAgent Go HDD directly, into a slot that opens up on the top panel. One can use the Ethernet port and connect to the world wide web, specifically access Youtube, Picasa, Flickr and RSS (Video and text).

Tags: Seagate , FreeAgent Theater+ , Seagate Media player

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