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]




 

(Other) Lose for Open Memory board...

Wikipedia is one of the world's least visited web sites (8th in the top 10, in construct), delivering an big comprehensiveness of content to an hoi polloi as huge as the computer network. But Wikipedia's evolved to transmute more than than an on-line cyclopedia: they've transmute one of the world's largest search engines, they're a orbicular source of real-time tidings, alongisde acquisition, persuasion and condition similar content - and one of the world's least priceless brands and media properties.

Wikipedia's also a great mental representation of a "redshift" exercise: a separate of the market that's organic process faster than the engineering industry's capacity to pioneer. Engineering companies have to pay special attracter to so much redshifted segments - not lone do they eventually grow the general market, but their start often drives the engineering picture. Broadly talking, social media, from free tidings and social networking, to search and content mutuality, is doing exactly that - shaping new architectures and requirements for radical scale, economic science and availability.

So I was really content that Wikimedia had Dae-Han-Min-Gook Sun's Open Memory board platforms concluded proprietorship alternatives, to help achieve their organic process to rich media - transferral high quality video recording and time founded content to their more than than 250,000,000 users globally. That's a big hoi polloi ready and waiting to download - and move with - high quality content.

Like Wikipedia, least of the planet's largest web sites (just look at the top 100) square measure shapely atop Sun's MySQL info. Which is wherefore we've just introduced a line of systems papers premeditated specifically to run MySQL - at up to 3x the demonstration of whitebox alternatives (aft no, it's right easier shopping to audiences that have already Dae-Han-Min-Gook Sun). We're nowadays expanding those offerings with our newest Open Storage function, as well - shapely to run ZFS from 5 to 50x handed-down demonstration. And again, no so much systems square measure easy here for free trial - pick the system you want to try, we'll cover transportation reimbursement to and from your site.

And spell I'm on the message of systems... I've been asked for insights into our past software system shake-up, in which we proclaimed ternion piping focus groups (a Systems sort out, an Applications sort out, and a Cloud sort out). Why'd we make that change?

First, look no farther than this lose for one of my piping motivations: I'd like to intensify the value and readjustment we offer to customers that want to run our system software system (like MySQL and ZFS) at precise high scale - and expect, from Sun and our OEM partners, the tightest possibility technical coaction and readjustment between implements of war and software.

Second, this move amplifies the apparent (at thing to us): the memory board market will be larger than the participant market, but you Gregorian calendar month not be able-bodied to tell - they're convergency, shapely from the European systems software system and implements of war components (networking will follow the European way, more than on that in the future).

Finally, adoption and software system distribution/marketing is dissimilar than government income generation. And with the adoption of ZFS well afoot, technical and business readjustment have transmute our governing priorities. It's at the heart of what's supply one of Sun's fastest organic process businesses (ZFS founded Open Memory board was up more than 150% last quarter, organic process right faster than our proprietorship peers).

How large is the propagation possibleness? It's not just businesses like Wikipedia that square measure shaping new scale requirements for the commercial enterprise. It's the on-line bank I proverb last period of time, nowadays small indefinite amount more than than 100m accounts globally - contemplating the suburb of video recording Old World chat for consumer service. It's the politics consumer I just visited hard to deliver driver's permit and recommendation reclamation employment to hundreds of millions of its citizens. The term propagation describes applications, not customers (remember, even Wikipedia has sum - not exactly a propagation application).

In an openly networked world, propagation applications begin to be to social phenomena - and social phenomena don't respect your IT fund. Which is to say, neither a 10 somebody beginning, nor a 10,000 somebody distributor want to go poor purchasing software system licenses and memory board, just because they've smitten a alter with the satellite. Which is increasingly wherefore both sides of the commercial enterprise square measure unreeling to open source.

And open storage.

________________

(And with apologies to the OpenOffice community - we square measure not exit to be inserting ads into OpenOffice.org - we're creating partnerships to brand and praise StarOffice, and the cloud we're processing buttocks it.)


 

Solaris on Wall Thoroughfare - Faster and Faster

I remember a repast I had a spell back with the CEO of a orbicular financial employment firm. As one of his first book as CEO, he'd on an big outsourcing contract, and I'd asked him wherefore - his consequence has unstuck with me. "Finance is a engineering business. Pure and simple. I can't lose if I don't have my personal group."

Independent of his views on outsourcing, I've detected the European point ready-made by galore (but not no) financial employment executives - finance (like big swaths of telecommunications, media and selling) has transmute a engineering business, where all cat of demonstration and adaptation matters. Even, and especially, in the inside of market excitement.

Which is a fitting scenery for a joint press release we just issued with Intel - in which we achieved a land speed record - a million messages per second, running the Reuters Market Collection System on Solaris 10 for Intel semiconducting material (see release for details). To our colleagues at Intel and Virgil Thomson Reuters... give thanks you! Demonstration = market point, strength fund, or datacenter consolidation  - or no of the preceding. Customers get to pick.

And following up on my last post on the impingement of flash storage device and ZFS on the world of datacenters, our personal Methylenedioxymethamphetamine Leventhal has added a right more than fulfilling technical visual aspect in Communications of the ACM: Flash Memory board Memory.Worth the read...



 

(Other) Lose for Open Memory board...

Wikipedia is one of the world's least visited web sites (8th in the top 10, in construct), delivering an big comprehensiveness of content to an hoi polloi as huge as the computer network. But Wikipedia's evolved to transmute more than than an on-line cyclopedia: they've transmute one of the world's largest search engines, they're a orbicular source of real-time tidings, alongisde acquisition, persuasion and condition similar content - and one of the world's least priceless brands and media properties.

Wikipedia's also a great mental representation of a "redshift" exercise: a separate of the market that's organic process faster than the engineering industry's capacity to pioneer. Engineering companies have to pay special attracter to so much redshifted segments - not lone do they eventually grow the general market, but their start often drives the engineering picture. Broadly talking, social media, from free tidings and social networking, to search and content mutuality, is doing exactly that - shaping new architectures and requirements for radical scale, economic science and availability.

So I was really content that Wikimedia had Dae-Han-Min-Gook Sun's Open Memory board platforms concluded proprietorship alternatives, to help achieve their organic process to rich media - transferral high quality video recording and time founded content to their more than than 250,000,000 users globally. That's a big hoi polloi ready and waiting to download - and move with - high quality content.

Like Wikipedia, least of the planet's largest web sites (just look at the top 100) square measure shapely atop Sun's MySQL info. Which is wherefore we've just introduced a line of systems papers premeditated specifically to run MySQL - at up to 3x the demonstration of whitebox alternatives (aft no, it's right easier shopping to audiences that have already Dae-Han-Min-Gook Sun). We're nowadays expanding those offerings with our newest Open Storage function, as well - shapely to run ZFS from 5 to 50x handed-down demonstration. And again, no so much systems square measure easy here for free trial - pick the system you want to try, we'll cover transportation reimbursement to and from your site.

And spell I'm on the message of systems... I've been asked for insights into our past software system shake-up, in which we proclaimed ternion piping focus groups (a Systems sort out, an Applications sort out, and a Cloud sort out). Why'd we make that change?

First, look no farther than this lose for one of my piping motivations: I'd like to intensify the value and readjustment we offer to customers that want to run our system software system (like MySQL and ZFS) at precise high scale - and expect, from Sun and our OEM partners, the tightest possibility technical coaction and readjustment between implements of war and software.

Second, this move amplifies the apparent (at thing to us): the memory board market will be larger than the participant market, but you Gregorian calendar month not be able-bodied to tell - they're convergency, shapely from the European systems software system and implements of war components (networking will follow the European way, more than on that in the future).

Finally, adoption and software system distribution/marketing is dissimilar than government income generation. And with the adoption of ZFS well afoot, technical and business readjustment have transmute our governing priorities. It's at the heart of what's supply one of Sun's fastest organic process businesses (ZFS founded Open Memory board was up more than 150% last quarter, organic process right faster than our proprietorship peers).

How large is the propagation possibleness? It's not just businesses like Wikipedia that square measure shaping new scale requirements for the commercial enterprise. It's the on-line bank I proverb last period of time, nowadays small indefinite amount more than than 100m accounts globally - contemplating the suburb of video recording Old World chat for consumer service. It's the politics consumer I just visited hard to deliver driver's permit and recommendation reclamation employment to hundreds of millions of its citizens. The term propagation describes applications, not customers (remember, even Wikipedia has sum - not exactly a propagation application).

In an openly networked world, propagation applications begin to be to social phenomena - and social phenomena don't respect your IT fund. Which is to say, neither a 10 somebody beginning, nor a 10,000 somebody distributor want to go poor purchasing software system licenses and memory board, just because they've smitten a alter with the satellite. Which is increasingly wherefore both sides of the commercial enterprise square measure unreeling to open source.

And open storage.

________________

(And with apologies to the OpenOffice community - we square measure not exit to be inserting ads into OpenOffice.org - we're creating partnerships to brand and praise StarOffice, and the cloud we're processing buttocks it.)


 

Solaris on Wall Thoroughfare - Faster and Faster

I remember a repast I had a spell back with the CEO of a orbicular financial employment firm. As one of his first book as CEO, he'd on an big outsourcing contract, and I'd asked him wherefore - his consequence has unstuck with me. "Finance is a engineering business. Pure and simple. I can't lose if I don't have my personal group."

Independent of his views on outsourcing, I've detected the European point ready-made by galore (but not no) financial employment executives - finance (like big swaths of telecommunications, media and selling) has transmute a engineering business, where all cat of demonstration and adaptation matters. Even, and especially, in the inside of market excitement.

Which is a fitting scenery for a joint press release we just issued with Intel - in which we achieved a land speed record - a million messages per second, running the Reuters Market Collection System on Solaris 10 for Intel semiconducting material (see release for details). To our colleagues at Intel and Virgil Thomson Reuters... give thanks you! Demonstration = market point, strength fund, or datacenter consolidation  - or no of the preceding. Customers get to pick.

And following up on my last post on the impingement of flash storage device and ZFS on the world of datacenters, our personal Methylenedioxymethamphetamine Leventhal has added a right more than fulfilling technical visual aspect in Communications of the ACM: Flash Memory board Memory.Worth the read...