Comments on: Seagate avoids Scoble Blindness with new HD media sharing and storage device

By: travesti

travesti — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:40:28 +0000

thank you very nice

By: Christopher Coulter

Christopher Coulter — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:42:04 +0000

PS – My money plunked down on the Popcorn Hour A-110 with WN-100, I mean what a killer featureset, tad costly tho.

But no HDMI port on the Seagate?!?? These guys nuts?

1. No HDMI – for a HD product? What on earth? Are they literally CRAZY?
2. Ugly design, looks like a phone answering machine of the Rockford Files era.
2. Locked into FreeAgent Go with that dock, get lost Passporters seems the message, shameless promoing their own hard drives. But that strategy will backfire, as I’ve never actually seen a FreeAgent in the wild, whereas Passports are like sand, everywhere.
4. No 1080p, surely you jest?
5. Costs more and not yet available.

WDTV wins hands down, and with the new firmware update even more so. WD should just skip Fujitsu, and buy up Scotts Valley, put them outta their misery.

By: Christopher Coulter

Christopher Coulter — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:28:53 +0000

WD TV is better and cheaper, and shipping. What’s the special sauce here?

Normal people do internet content on laptops (and get bored with it) and get HD from DirectTV or Comcast PVRs, and maybe do a prefab ProShowish photo montage DVD disks, if lucky.

Betweeners get a $50 Philips DVD player with a USB2 port and stick a USB flash stick in or burn a data DVD, the xvidish legally dubious TV and movie downloads, starting to creep into mainstream.

Edgers cull from SANs/PS3/360s, and hack up AppleTV or Archos and go XBMC or TV Cardish BeyondTV and Sage and download things in 1.3 gig 720p. And firmware hack up everything.

The WD TV and Seagate product falls into the Between market.

By: Alan Wolk

Alan Wolk — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:12:19 +0000

@Leigh- great comment, could not agree more, really gets to the heart of what first struck me about this space. I remember how surprised I was when I learned that people didn’t actually know the “A-Listers” whose lives they were dissecting in such detail– it felt like reading a Bollywood fan magazine or something where there were all these “stars” I’d never heard of. And “sour grapes” is a more than apt description.

By: Leigh Duncan-Durst

Leigh Duncan-Durst — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:15:49 +0000

I’ve never weighed in on Scoble comments before and i don’t know you personally, so I’m basing this comment off observations.

Truthfully, I’m a fan of just about any person that can carve out a niche that enables that person to do what they love. I do understand and agree with Alan’s many of the points in Alan’s piece. However, I do believe that he was speaking to the boatload of people who seek to imitate you and your approach in a very misdirected fashion.

It’s always jarring for me to see how PERSONAL people get when discussing “A-listers” – especially in social media. My friends are pretty cool about it — but with regard to some of the other, more hostile detractors… I guess that type of scrutiny comes with the territory in which you find yourself, Robert.

I think you’d agree that it’s important for all of us to weigh and learn from the criticism and insight of others. At the same time, (and I’m NOT speaking of Alan’s post but some adjacent comments and things I’ve “heard”) we must filter out the stuff that smells a lot like sour grapes.

By: Carl

Carl — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:41:50 +0000

Nice to see, but Western Digital already does this in a smaller package.

The WD TV is a smaller package and can do 1080p HD.

I own won, picked it up on sale for $99 at Best Buy the week it came out and have been really impressed with it.

It has handled everything I have thrown at it. Has HDMI out, optical audio out as well as composite audio/video connections.

I’m sure the Seagate product will be cool too, but they are playing catch up.