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1. About Your Media Player
The FreeAgent Theater+™ media player is a home theater solution that makes it simple
for you to move your multimedia files from your computer to your TV. Getting started
takes only a few minutes. Just connect the media player to your TV; drag your movies,
pictures, and music from your computer onto a portable drive; and connect the portable
drive to the media player. Use the media player menus and the remote control buttons to
navigate to your media files and select viewing options.
This User Guide is for Seagate FreeAgent
®
Theater+™ HD media player. This chapter
provides an overview of your media player, describes its main features and
components, and lists the other things you need to set up a simple home theater system.
The FreeAgent Theater+ HD media player can play digital media files from a variety of
sources:
• A FreeAgent Go™ portable drive or any NTFS, FAT32, or HFS/HFS+ formatted
external
• USB storage device
• A compatible digital camera or camcorder
• Internet media services
• Computers connected to your local network (displays only files and folders
shared to the network)
The media player indexes and creates a database of all the media files stored on
external devices connected to it. This allows you to sort and display your media in a
variety of ways. For example, you can view files as thumbnails or in a list or sort them
alphabetically or according to the date they were saved.
You can use the media player out of the box without installing any software. However,
the FreeAgent Theater computer software allows you to synchronize media folders on
your drive with those on your computer and access your external drive features. If you
want to use the FreeAgent Theater application to manage and sync your media files, see
Chapter 7 “Synchronizing Your Media Files (Windows)” on page 31 or Chapter 7
“Synchronizing Your Media Files (Macintosh)” on page 36 for instructions on how to
install and use the FreeAgent Theater application.
