Relive Your Memores Digitally Through Seagate FreeAgent Theater HD Media Player

Seagate FreeAgent Theater HD media player is the newest one from the block of Seagate which promises to enrich the media experience for us. With it comes a Freeagent Go Hard Drive which can help you to point, click and enjoy photos and videos or other digital media content from your TV rather than watching it on computer monitors.

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Seagate, the world’s leading provider of storage solutions, today unveiled the new Seagate® FreeAgent® Theater™ HD media player, a complete home theater solution designed to enhance the experience of enjoying digital media by providing an easy way to play your favorite videos, movies and photos on your TV. The Seagate FreeAgent Theater media player is a new accessory designed to work with the company’s award-winning FreeAgent® Go™ portable hard drive, enabling people to easily enjoy stored digital media on their TV screens rather than their computer monitors. Just tuck the media player next to your TV, pop in your FreeAgent Go hard drive, point, click, and enjoy as your personal memories and favorite movies come to life before your eyes in HD quality video with surround sound.

Available in March, the Seagate FreeAgent Theater HD Media Player can be purchased as a stand-alone unit for use with any USB storage device, or a complete solution with a FreeAgent Go portable drive included, starting at just $129.99.

The Seagate FreeAgent Theatre Media Player provides a way for people to easily store and move their media library between their PC and home entertainment system so they can share their favorite photos, movies and videos with family and friends in a familiar and comfortable setting.

Key Features

The Seagate FreeAgent Theater media player introduces a new way of thinking about how an external hard drive is used. Back up, storage and protection have always been the primary function of an external storage device. With FreeAgent Theater, Seagate now introduces enjoyment:

1. Experience high-definition movie viewing with DVD-like playback control and surround sound.
2. Pair slide-shows of high-resolution photo libraries with music collections and customize with specialized transition effects.
3. Easily synchronized and organize digital media from multiple computers using the FreeAgent Go drive.
4. Instantly access entire libraries of digital media by simply popping a FreeAgent Go drive into the media player or connecting another external storage device using the external USB port.
5. On-screen navigation is a snap with the handy remote with an intuitive interface and familiar button layout.

Seagate FreeAgent Theater couples cool functional design with operating simplicity. The dock eliminates the need for fumbling with excessive amounts of cables or complicated network setups, while its familiar DVD-style remote control interface makes it a breeze for any member of the family to use. Its sleek, piano-black encasing makes this new component look right at home beside the DVR, DVD-player and television.

The included FreeAgent Theater software is a rich media-specific synchronization application for the automatic transfer and organization of all the photos, music, videos and movies stored on your computer. And since the FreeAgent Go drives are now available in a rainbow of colors, it will be easy to catalog and organize digital libraries according to the color of the drive – storing favorite movies on one drive, family photos on a second and music on yet another.

“Consumers today are the number one creators and aggregators of digital content—most of which holds a sentimental or emotional value and is unfortunately trapped on their home computers,” said Pat King, senior vice president of Seagate’s Consumer Solutions Division. “For years, Seagate has provided solutions for storing, organizing and protecting this personal content – now, with Seagate FreeAgent Theater, we provide the ability for families and friends to share and enjoy these memories together in the comfort of their living rooms.”

Technical Specifications

One of the key features that make the Seagate FreeAgent Theater so easy to use is the number of supported Audio/Video formats.

• The FreeAgent Theater media player supports MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 formats, and DIVX files with video resolutions for NTSC, PAL and HD up to 1080i and even provides support for subtitles.
• The audio formats supported include 5.1 channel surround sound, where available, and also plays the popular digital audio formats including:  MP3, WMA, WAV and OGG. To download and transfer content to the Seagate FreeAgent Go, a Windows XP or Vista operated PC is required, with 256MB RAM and an available USB port.
• FreeAgent Theater connects to any TV with either composite, S-video or component video and audio inputs and an AC outlet.

Pricing and Availability

The Seagate FreeAgent Theater Media Player Solution will be available in March at select retail outlets in the US and EMEA, as well as through Seagate.com. The FreeAgent Theater solution is available in three different configurations. It can be purchased as either a standalone media player with the remote control at a manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP) of $129.99, or with the choice of either a 250GB (MSRP of $229.99) or 500GB (MSRP of $299.99) capacity FreeAgent Go Drive.