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CES: Sneakerware 2009, part 1
L.A. Times Tech Blog — ... to consumers in sort of an eat-your-vegetables way, arguing that they need to back up their photos, music and other digital media in case their PCs fail. How ... compelling. To sweeten the deal, it plans to offer a $129 docking station next month called the FreeAgent Theater that will let users display the contents of their external (or USB) drives on their big-screen TVs. I saw a demo of the device at CES, and was impressed by how easy it was to find media stored on a drive, play it and do simple productions, such as digital-photo slideshows with music. One caveat: the picture ...

Seagate anounced FreeAgent Theater
Smart Home Blog — ... Seagate announced on CES 2009 its new product - FreeAgent Theater . It contains two parts - media player with dock for FreeAgent Go portable hard drive and dock to connect disk to PC. Media player allows to playback media content from hard drive directly to TV using user friendly interface. It supports video - MPEG-1, MPEG-2 (AVI/VOB/ISO), MPEG-4 (AVI/DivX /Xvid), subtles - SAMI(smi), SRT and SUB, audio - MP3 , AC3 (5.1 audio - Dolby® Digital) WMA, WAV, OGG. Video resoluons can be NTSC 480i/480p; PAL 576i/576p and it supports video (HD and upscaling) up to 720p/1080i. ...

Seagate FreeAgent Theater HD Media Player Review
Chip Chick — ... The FreeAgent Theater HD Media Player is a pretty unique product, and in some ways it’s the first of its kind. There are an assortment of multimedia hard drives out there that are designed to carry multimedia content like videos and music from your computer that will play on to your TV. However, with these types of products you are locked in to that specific hard drive. The FreeAgent Theater on the other hand is just a hub. In a way you can think of it as a DVD or VHS player with its own built in software that plays movies off of a medium. In this case, ...

Seagate’s FreeAgent Theater: A (Mostly) Pretty Picture
NewTeeVee — ... The FreeAgent Theater is a thin device that connects to your TV via S-video, composite A/V, or component video. (No cords are included; you’ll have to supply them yourself.) It has a USB port for connecting an external storage device, such as a thumb drive, an external hard drive, or even a digital camera. But Seagate has designed this product for use with one of the company’s own drives; a FreeAgent Go portable hard drive will slide neatly into a dock on the front of the device. ...

Review: Seagate FreeAgent Theater HD Media Player Solution + 250GB FreeAgent Go and Dock
CrunchGear — ... it should be 1080p. I know 720p is HD, but it’s not full HD. As I noted in my video, the FreeAgent chorks itself to death when switching video output to anything other than SD when connected over Composite. You have to connect over Component to fix the problem, but if you want audio you have to jump back to Composite. It’s a lose-lose situation. Conclusion:thing from Seagate. It’s overpriced for what it is compared to the Western Digital WD TV. Product Page ...