Or you can wire it to your router - yep, wire a WiFi dongle won’t be ready for a few weeks. You have to actually walk the hard drive from your computer to your TV. It can attach either to a network or a hard drive, but it’s still kind of sneakernet solution. Of course home networks are not built to share spreadsheets and TPS reports - they’re for video, photos and music, so Seagate also put out the FreeAgent Theater Plus, which can play high-def videos on a TV in surround sound via HDMI and optical audio. If you’re willing to pay $30 a year, you can also use the thing’s Pogoplug technology to give your home its own personal cloud - basically, you can access the files on that hard drive not just from your home, but from anywhere on the Web through a secured connection. It plugs into your network, you plug a hard drive into it, and you have instant network-attached storage. This week it introduced the FreeAgent DockStar. But home network users who don’t happen to have computer science degrees are getting a little more sophisticated, and companies like Seagate are trying to get in on the action by offering up products that make the home network a little more robust. Well, most home networks consist of a modem, a WiFi router that may or may not be encrypted, and a laptop or two. Or maybe you do, maybe you’re just hardcore. For instance, you probably don’t have a server rack in your living room, or a whole wing devoted to nothing but RAID data storage. Home networks usually aren’t the same kind of animal as enterprise networks. In the words of Gartner’s Leslie Fiering, “the DreamScreen appears to be an interesting product in search of a use.” Even though you can technically get online, the Internet connection can only be used with a set of built-in apps for things like Internet radio, social networking and local playback utilities like music and photo streams. And you can connect it to your home WiFi network.Īnd that’s where the Dream gets a little weird: It doesn’t have a browser. It shows the time, so I guess it’s a wall clock too. Well it also has a remote control like a TV, and it can be mounted to a wall or stood on-end like a digital picture frame. So far it sounds sort of like a giant personal media player. There are two models: one with a 10.2-inch screen and one with a 13.3 inch screen. It has USB ports and it can hold 2 GB of data. It’s a device that can run video, show pictures and play music with built-in speakers. The DreamScreen looks sort of like what you’d have if someone tore an HP Mini in two and handed you the monitor side. HP has just made either the most hyperactive digital picture frame on the market or the lamest tablet PC ever.
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