Another useful facet of the FreeAgent Theater is its ability to load two data streams at once. Other media players will force you to fade to black or do a “jump cut” between slideshow photos. But because the Theater loads the next image while displaying the current one, it can cross-fade, making for a much more pleasant viewing experience.
Of course, we have to wonder why Seagate didn’t implement the same concept in its music playback capabilities. Perhaps we’ll see this added in a future patch update.