Gadgetory

so today we'll be having a look at yet another network media player we have the seagate freeagent theater plus this is an HD media player it is fully 1080p ready basically it allows you to access content from your home network much like a lot of these other network media accessories so first of all you've got your list of what's in the box which will be showing you soon enough so there's no need to read that you've got minimum system requirements which are very very conservative 256 megs round is pretty much it and a USB port okay so that's not too bad it's got the supported formats which does include rmvb as well as MKV so some of the pretty important ones are there subtitle support and resolutions up to 1080p let me see you can do jpeg photos if you wanted to do that and supports both pal and ntsc so let's get this thing open and yeah there we go so first of all we take off the plastic yeah oh yeah one of the cool features while I'm unboxing this thing if I could just get the plastic started maybe something sharp would be helpful is actually the ability to dock a seagate external hard drive into the so where a lot of these media players have support for USB hard drive on the outside or for an internal hard drive like the popcorn hour this one actually supports the use of an external hard drive internally if you catch my drift so let's take this open and I'll show you exactly what I mean first of all you're going to find a quick start guide which based on how stiff it is also include the CD so we'll see what it says the CD is for in just a moment so here's your Quick Start Guide they want you to check and make sure you have everything connecting HDMI connection or something else connect to ethernet and plug in the power at this point you can also insert a free agent go hard drive so that's a two-and-a-half-inch external hard drive and take advantage of that or you can use an external USB port to any drive enclosure here are some instructions for how to use the media sync software and d remote control okay so here's your free agent theater plus HD media player solution this is what you need to install on the server computer then you've got your warranty information okay and then you have updated oh they're telling you you want to update your firmware as frequently as possible but make sure that you get the latest from Seagate's website okay here we go so it's a little bit bigger than you know what let's do the accessories first actually I changed our minds okay first you got your power brick pretty standard thing they come with a plug on one end and a different plug on the other end okay that's good then you've got a composite cable okay it looks like about a six foot cable for you I probably and then you have a component video cable okay sounds great and oh it comes with oh no it doesn't come with an hdmi cable so that is a bit of a small knock against it but it does come with kind of a fancy-looking ethernet cable with metal on the sides okay so there's an ethernet cable and to triple-a batteries for the remote actually the remote can make or break these devices so this is not nearly as advanced a remote as something like the popcorn hours but it's a little bit better than what comes with the wdtv live so you just have kind of your basic functionality it's a little on the big side I guess considering the buttons looks like there's a lot of empty space but that's going to give you pretty much what you need to do to navigate the menus placed off forward rewind mute etc okay so now let's have a look at the unit itself Oh something that we should probably mention is you can see that this packaging is green it is well not green is brown but it's recycled recycled materials so they are saving the environment one package at a time so take the plastic off the top it doesn't come off in one piece because you can see here on the right that's the hatch for installing aha a two and a half inch drive so you can see it's just a USB connection at the back so that both powers the drive and provides your data transfer and you can remove or put on this cover as needed it's quite a sleek looking unit is quite a bit bigger than the wdtv live but I really like the front of it it's very clean-looking you basically got one USB port and one is that a power switch I think it's a power switch can't tell it doesn't seem to have much of a switch you feel to it but that'll be in the instructions one way or another okay so there's your AV out there is your component out optical audio hdmi LAN USB and power there's a hard reset switch on the back so that pretty much covers our unboxing of the seagate freeagent theater plus