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Byline: Cliff Joseph
Seagate Free
Agent Theatre
Watch video direct from a hard disk -- no computer required
Seagate's new Free Agent Theatre allows users to connect their hard disks to a television screen so that they can watch videos and photos or play music through the TV.
Unlike media-streaming devices we've looked at before, which take files over your home network from PC to TV such as Western Digital's WDTV (see below), the Free Agent Theatre instead allows users to plug in a hard disk and watch video directly from that.
As the name implies, the Free Agent Theatre is designed primarily for use with the company's own Free Agent portable hard disks. Should you have one of those it can be simply slotted into the bay that's built into the front of the Theatre, which will instantly connect it to the TV set.