Seagate's FreeAgent Theatre HD Media Instrumentalist Is a Set-Top Dock for Hard Drives [Media Players]

Last night, I previewed Seagate's FreeAgent Theatre HD Media Player, which docks those super-slim FreeAgent 2.5" USB drives in order to connect your video recording files to your TV.

The Free Agent Theatre HD Media Player uses complex, S-Video and ingredient video recording inputs, coaxal out for Dolby Whole number geographic area sound. Its interconnected dock is for the FreeAgent Go, what Seagate says is the world's thinnest characteristic HDD, but there's a USB port for otherwise memory board inclination, in case you're fresh out of FreeAgents. Its on-screen surface can display either file/folder trees or previews and thumbnails. And because of the Theatre HD's dual-channel video recording convertor, you can upconvert no your video recording files to 720p or 1080i. There's no 1080p support, and besides, there's no HDMI, though Seagate says something like that will come along early this year.

As for the on-screen UI and attendant removed, here square measure also easy one-touch buttons that will allow you to carry out simple tasks automatically, so much as start a slideshow of photos and sound, simultaneously, with just one button. Even DVD files, ripped onto your characteristic hard drive, can be played simply by exit to the DVD's folder and clicking the play or agenda button on the removed, without having to hunt for the existent video recording file. Seagate says the system supports MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 formats, and DIVX files with video recording resolutions for NTSC, PAL and HD up to 1080i, and that it even supports subtitles. It does not, however, handle H.264.

From what I can tell, this is mostly a tactical manoeuvre for thought users United Nations agency don't requisite a avoirdupois unit of advanced features, but rather an easy, out of the box experience. Easy on March 4, the Seagate FreeAgent Theatre HD will sell for $130. You can also influence it bundled with a 250GB FreeAgent Go drive for $230, or better still, a 500GB model for $280. [Seagate]




 

Big Macintosh Weekday: What Edible fruit Born [Summary]

Today Edible fruit performed intellectual inner upgrades on the iMac, Mac Mini, Mac Pro and Time Capsule, and they did it without a keynote—or even a press-release quotation mark from His Jobsness. Here's a recap:

Mac Mini
The new Macintosh Mini, easy nowadays, is heavily redesigned inside and in the rear, though its body is beautiful little selfsame to the old ones. It comes in deuce configs ($600 and $800), both founded on the 2GHz Intel Core 2 Pair with Nvidia GeForce 9400M interconnected artwork. Methylenedioxymethamphetamine wants you to note that the $200 step up might not be indefinite quantity it. [MORE]

iMac
The 24-Inch iMac comes down from $1800 to $1500, actuation the 20-Move on iMac down $300 itself to $1200. Disdain having the European look they've had since Revered 2007 (not a question for me but no group want new novelty), they also have better glasses: The super-sick $2,200 iMac has a 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Pair business and a 7200rate 1TB drive (though you still have to pay redundant to grievous bodily harm out RAM at 8GB). [MORE]

Mac Pro
The new Macintosh Pro nowadays starts at $2500, down from $2800, but has Intel's Xeon "Nehalem" quad-core chipset and 1066MHz DDR3 RAM for superfast storage device access. It comes standard with the fast Nvidia GeForce GT 120, but you can decide an ATI Radeon HD 4870 for even more than in writing energy. It's reaching March 9. [MORE]

Jesus points out that Apple's holder just got smaller—all leave off the price that is. The larger one will still sell, for nowadays, too.

Time Capsule
The new Time Capsule also looks the European on the outside, but inside it's twofold up its Wi-Fi skilled workman power with dual-channel 2.4GHz and 5GHz 802.11n for managing more than communication system merchandise. The drink start is "Guest networking," which lets you make a practical Wi-Fi geographic area for guests that is walled off from the rest of your communication system. [MORE]