Hard drives with pizzazz: media and more

Photo viewers, multimedia playback, memory card transfers -- these hard disk drives do more than just sit on your desk and store your digital stuff.

LaCie LaCinema


At 500GB, the LaCie LaCinema Classic multimedia hard drive can pack a large media library. The LaCinema can directly play back audio, video, and photos in a variety of common formats, and will upscale video to 1080p resolution. The drive connects to your TV (HD or otherwise) using its composite audio/video or HDMI ports, and it comes bundled with a remote control. The $170 LaCinema supports both Windows Mac OS X, and Linux. Other LaCinema models, with different features and capacities, are also available. (Pictured above: The larger LaCinema 1TB model, which lacks an HDMI connection.)

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