Seagate will preset Paramount movie in Mobile hard drive

Beijing Time April 12 Evening news, according to foreign media reported today, Seagate has been working with the pie paramount industry, in part of the mobile hard drive to preset Paramount's film.　　Users can view these movies by unlocking them digitally.　　Seagate and Paramount Digital Entertainment will jointly announce in Monday that Seagate's 500GB capacity freeagent go Mobile drive, which is sold in the United States, will preset 20 popular movies, including "Special Forces" and "Master Love", to unlock the price of each movie at $9.99. If you want to unlock these movies, consumers need to buy authorization codes, and then they will be able to watch these movies indefinitely.　　In addition, if a consumer buys a certain marked Seagate mobile hard drive, it will be free to watch the Star Trek built into it. The collaboration between Seagate and Paramount is the first time the hard disk makers and studios have been using this to publish their films.　　Two companies hope that this approach will encourage consumers to build personal digital movie libraries, and Seagate will also launch free Agent theater plus accessories to help users watch movies on TV. "We collaborate to provide unique products that help users build digital home movie libraries," said Malik Ducard, senior vice president of the Malik Dukad Digital Entertainment department. "This is a big step for Seagate," said Darcy Clarkson, vice president of Seagate Sales and marketing, Dasi Clarkson. We believe that we meet the real needs of users to get movies and watch at any location. "Seagate's research shows that about 1/4 of consumers who are currently buying mobile hard drives will be moving hard disks for data backups, while the other 70% using mobile drives is due to the exhaustion of hard disk space on the computer." "We believe that if we want to drive this market to continue to grow, we have to explore new uses for hard drives," says Clarkson. Ducard said the two companies began discussing details of cooperation last November, and were satisfied with the current results. If the event succeeds, two companies plan to expand their collaboration and introduce more films. (Nan)