The world of home entertainment is rapidly evolving. PCs and portable music players are replacing stereos and CDs. The enormous popularity of digital video recorders (DVRs) is quickly making DVDs outdated. CDs and DVDs create clutter and can become damaged or lost. There is no faster or easier way to enjoy your home entertainment than with hard drive-based technology. Whether in a PC, a DVR, a networked media centre, a handheld device, or game machine, more storage equals more fun. And the more room you have to store your digital content, the less time you will have to spend managing it.

Hard drives and network storage solutions are the safest, most flexible way to centralise and manage digital entertainment for playback on computers, entertainment centres and TVs. Ever-smaller portable devices containing hard drives, take home entertainment out of the home and on the road. Now you can store more, and take it with you wherever you go. Access all your digital content, at any time, anywhere.

Films and Television

Today you can download films and TV shows as easily as digital music. The only difference is that video takes much more storage capacity than other digital content. But high-capacity external hard drives, networked media storage solutions and DVRs let you record as many TV shows and films as you like, without having to delete your favourites to make room. Also, you can easily move those videos to any portable device, or to anywhere in the home where you want to watch them. With a hard drive in the car, you can even transfer videos for the children to watch in the back seat.

Music

No one has ever complained about having too much storage. New home-based storage devices let you safely and securely build massive digital music libraries and playlists. External hard drives let you centralise and manage it all—and then transfer it to your car’s hard drive, or your portable music player to take with you on your travels.

Pictures and Home Movies

Digital cameras have made taking and sharing pictures a more interactive form of home entertainment. Photo hard drives that fit into CompactFlash camera slots let you store thousands of high-resolution photos without changing the card. You can make slide shows from your photos and play them on your computer or television, send them round the world to friends and family, even incorporate your favourite songs into the presentation. Digital video cameras with integrated hard drives keep your home movies in a format that lets you drag and drop them onto home-based hard drives for playback. Personal server solutions allow you to access, protect and share your treasured photos and videos with friends and family anywhere in the world.

Gaming

Advances in storage technology let gamers enjoy a whole new level of interactivity—whether on a PC or video game console. As video games become more and more realistic, they take up too much space to be stored on DVDs or CDs. As a result, game designers are integrating hard drives into game machines and creating multi-level downloadable games for the PC. This allows for more realistic high-definition graphics, greater versatility in personalising characters, more advanced levels, and smoother game play. Hard drives also let gamers store their progress, and make loading faster.

Home entertainment is no longer limited to the home. Innovations in storage solutions are setting digital content free, so that you can maximise and enjoy your entertainment experience, wherever and whenever you want.