Seagate FreeAgent Theater: Move Media : Who’s Zoomin’ Who?
|

A lot of people buy media adapters and extenders simply as a way to show their photo collections to friends and family on the big screen, so Seagate was smart to put extra thought into how it handles images. Selecting a photo from the folder list will blow it up to full-screen and start a slide show, which you can always pause. Hitting the left or right arrow buttons will rotate an image 90 degrees. Better yet, there’s a Zoom button in the lower-left corner of the remote. Seagate actually resamples the original source file for the screen, so you don’t get the blocks found in digital zooming (provided your source image has greater resolution than your TV). You can zoom up to 8X, as shown in this image. The entire image is shown in a thumbnail near the bottom-right of the screen, and there’s a white outline box showing your zoomed area that you can move around with the remote’s arrow buttons. This is one of our favorite features in the Theater.
|
|
The best device of this kind, hands down, is the Popcorn Hour: http://www.popcornhour.com/onlinestore/