Asus Eee Media EM0501

The ASUS EeeMedia EM0501 is supposedly a “High Definition Media Center”, based around an 800MHz  Samsung S5PV210 ARM chipset with 512MB of RAM onboard and a standard2.5-inch HDD bay.  It can hook up to your network for streaming content, and output 1080p Full HD via wired ethernet and WiFi b/g/n, though we’re not entirely sure what video/audio outputs there will be.  If we had to guess, we’d say HDMI will be among them.  Supported media formats include H.264, WMV, MPEG1-4, HDV, VC-1,DivX, XviD, AVI, VOB, MOV, MKV, RMVB video and JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG and TIFF / TIF stills.

It’s also possible to surf the internet directly from the EM0501, though there’s no indication of whether ASUS will be supplying a remote keyboard to make that a little more straightforward.  Instead there’s talk – but no photos – of an IR-based “multimedia remote control” which will presumably handle basic navigation.  No word on pricing or availability.