"Smartphones and tablets offer amazing new opportunities for Seagate to provide new consumerstoragesolutions in an increasingly mobile world, " said Scott Horn, vice president of Marketing at Seagate.
The transaction would combine two highly complementary product and technology portfolios, adding LaCie's line of premium branded consumerstoragesolutions, network-attached storagesolutions and software offerings to Seagate's array of mainstream consumerstorage products.
The TV, DVR and External Storage or client non-compute applications are storagesolutions designed for consumer electronic devices such as media recorders and disk drives used for external storage such as a portable external disk and network-attached storage.