In addition to today’s announcement of several additions to the Seagate lineup, I figured I’d take the time to go a little more in-depth to what Seagate has in store for us in near (?) future. As always, after the jump.
https://gizmodo.com/seagate-rolls-out-hybrid-drive-nine-more-179033
Amidst much cheese and wine, Seagate yesterday showed off its vision of the digitally connected home in a New York City event (no, not the much ballyhooed Digital Life Preview), with their hard drives and servers serving as backbone. I had the honor of sitting in chairs of varying degrees of comfort while men in polo shirts explained how, one day, we will live in a world where you’ll be able to watch a film (yesterday’s film was King Kong, for all five of you who are interested) in one room, pause it, then transfer it to your portable media player (read: iPod) or car audio/video system and have it resume playback on the new device.
https://gizmodo.com/jobs-wants-your-ipod-money-once-a-year-176720
Seagate seems to imagine a sort of fantasy world where Hollywood studios would cede some amount of control over the movies and other media that they provide and you consume. (Repeat: they provide and you consume.) Purchase a movie in some esoteric digital format from Netflix or some other Big Server in the Sky in high definition, move it about your house and plus ultra with minimal restrictions, etc.
In other words, given the Studios’ current mentality, a nigh impossible pipe dream, at least for the foreseeable future.
Don’t knock Seagate for trying though, since, theoretically, it’s all very exciting: who wouldn’t want to be able to effortlessly transfer legal media, that is, not obtained via one of BitTorrent’s shadier realms from one room to another nearly instantly? In the demonstration, an HD copy of the aforementioned Kong was moved from the “home” to a Samsung PMP, effectively “outside.” As we moved onto the “car,” there Kong was, in all his glory, right where we left off.
https://gizmodo.com/the-pirate-bay-is-back-178419
The interface for the media’s management was eerily reminiscent of MythTV and looked quite impressive. Whether or not any of us will actually see such a seamless integration of our different toys’ functionalities probably depends on the whims of Hollywood. In that case, let’s cross our fingers.
