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so today we'll be having a look at yet another Network media player we have the

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Seagate free agent theater plus this is an HD Media Player it is fully 1080p

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ready basically it allows you to access content from your home network much like

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a lot of these other network media accessories so first of all you've got

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your list of what's in the box which we'll be showing you soon enough so there's no need to read that you've got

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minimum system requirements which are very very conservative 256 Megs RAM is

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pretty much it and a USB port okay so that's not too bad it's got these

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supported formats which does include rmvb as well as MKV so some of the

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pretty important ones are there subtitle support and resolutions up to 1080p uh

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let me see you can do jpeg photos if you wanted to do that and it supports both

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pal and ntsc so let's get this thing

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open and yeah here we go so first of all we take off the plastic yeah oh yeah one

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of the cool features while I'm unboxing this thing if I could just get the

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plastic started maybe something sharp would be helpful is actually the ability

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to dock a Seagate external hard drive

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into the front of it so where a lot of these media players have support for a

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USB hard drive uh on the outside or for

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an internal hard drive like the popcorn hour this one actually supports the use

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of an external hard drive internally if

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you catch my drift so let's take this open and I'll show you exactly what I

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mean first of all you're going to find a quick start guide which based on how

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stiff it is also includes a CD so we'll see what it says the CD is for in just a

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moment so here's your quick start guide they want you

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to check and make sure you have everything connect an HDMI connection or

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something else connect to Ethernet and plug in the power at this point you can

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also insert a free agent go hard drive so that's a 2 and 1/2 in external hard

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drive and take advantage of that or you can use an external USB port to any

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Drive enclosure here's some instructions for how to use the media sync software

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and the remote control okay so here's your free agent theater

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Plus HD Media Player solution this is what you need to install on the server

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computer then you've got your warranty information okay and then you have

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updated oh they're telling you you want to update your firmware as frequently as

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possible but make sure that you get the latest from seates website okay here we

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go so it's a little bit bigger than you know what let's do the accessories first

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actually I changed my mind okay first you got your power brick pretty standard

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thing it comes with a plug on one end and a different front plug on the other

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end okay that's good then you've got a

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composite cable okay it looks like about a 6t cable 3ot probably and then you

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have a component video cable okay that was great and oh it comes with oh no it

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doesn't come with an HDMI cable so that is a bit of a small knock against it but

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it does come with kind of a fancy looking Ethernet cable with metal on the

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sides okay so there's an Ethernet cable and two AAA batteries for the remote

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actually the remote can make or break these devices so this is not nearly as

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advanced a remote as something like the popcorn hours but it's a little bit

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better than what comes with the wdtv live so you just have kind of your basic

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functionality uh it's a little on the big side I guess considering the buttons

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looks like there's a lot of empty space but that's going to give you pretty much

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what you need to do to navigate the menus play stop forward rewind mute Etc

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okay so now let's have a look at the unit itself oh something that uh we

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should probably mention is you can see that this packaging is green it is well

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not green it's brown but it's recycled recycled material so uh they are saving

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the environment one package at a time so let's take the plastic off the top it

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doesn't come off in one piece cuz you can see here on the right that's the

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hatch for installing aha a 2 and 1/2 in drive so

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you can see it's just a USB connection at the back so that both Powers the

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drive and provides your data transfer and you can remove or put on this cover

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as needed it's quite a leak looking unit is quite a bit bigger than the wdtv live

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but I really like the front of it it's very clean looking you basically got one

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USB port and one is that a power switch

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I think it's a power switch I can't tell it doesn't seem to have much of a switchy feel to it but that'll be in the

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instructions one way or another okay so there's your AV out there is your

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component out optical audio HDMI LAN USB

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and power there's a hard reset switch on the back so that pretty much covers our

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unboxing of the Tate free agent feeder

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Plus