Customer Reviews

Seagate FreeAgent Theater+ 1080P HD Media Player and FreeAgent Go 500 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive ST905004CEA2E1-RK

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Ok I bought this after owning a WD HD Media Player and loving it. I had very little complaints with it so I didnt switch to this because I hated the WDTV I bought this because I wanted a second device like this and wanted to give the freeagent theater+ hd a try. Anyway It works great videos play good and I have tried MKV,AVI,MP4, and all kinds of audio formats and all work great. Also a plus this has DTS where the WDTV does not or at least the first gen I have does not. So a pro con list now.

Pros:
-Plays all my audio and video formats great.
-Plays YouTube videos well.
-Detects HDD and Media fast!
-Nice Menu interface.

Cons:
-I cant have more then 100+ Videos on a HDD without it messing up the list. It names them wrong and goes crazy if I scroll fast and overall does not work if I have more then 100+ Videos on my HDD and view them with the main Videos Icon on the interface. I have to go to devices then usb then view them by folders my WDTV did folders automatically.
-It does not power down my external HDD when it is off.
-Does not save prefrence to keep list view over thumbnail view after shutdown.

Overall I give it 4 Stars. I like it and am keeping it but would like to see some firmware updates to address my issues. Otherwise I would recommend this device to others.

This is exactly what I was looking for, I have a Buffalo 2TB NAS that i have my movie, music and photo collections on and i wanted to be able to access them on my Samsung 47IN HDTV. The Seagate Freeagent Theatre+ HDMedia Player Station was a breeze to set up, well setup consisted of pluging in the AC, connecting via Ethernet to my home network through a Netgear Switch, connect to my TV via HDMI, the Seagate Freeagent Theatre+ HDMedia Player Station took about 60 seconds to search and detect all shared media on my network, not only on the Buffalo 2TB NAS but also on all the computers connected to the the network with shared media. Great playback for all forms of media, music, movies and photos. The remote is very simple and the batteries are included. This great unit also has a dock for the Seagate Freeagent usb hard drives. i would recommend this to everyone who wants a simple, fast setup and user friendly to be able to access all your media collections on their HDTV.

I'm very pleased with the Theater+. It plays all sorts of media formats, including mkv. Great quality video and sound. Easy to use. YouTube supported and Netflix support is coming in the near future. It quickly detects all your media for instant viewing on your HD TV. I would highly recommend this to anyone.

The Hard Drive that comes with this just stopped working. I have to plug in one of my other externals to use. It lasted about 2 weeks then just died. The media player works great, but the remote is terrible. I find myself hitting the button 3 or 4 times to make it work. In some cases I have to take the batteries out of the remote and put them back in to make the remote work. It plays all the files, so that aspect is great. It just seems it could be alot better