One of the worst aspects of closely following the tech industry is the waiting.  Waiting for technological developments and integration.  Waiting for product announcements.  Waiting for product releases.   It could seriously drive a person mad.   Since CES, we’ve been eagerly awaiting the release of several digital media players, such as D-Link’s Boxee Box, the similarly spec’d Nuu Media Player, and Syabas’ PopBox.   Any of these could go a long way in fulfilling certain “resolutions”, and could displace most of the existing, confusing, and bloated digital media streamer market.  But they’ll each have to live up to their hype.   And until any of these devices is released, we’ll continue to wait and wonder as yet another digital media player enters the fray – this time by ASUS.

The ASUS EeeMedia EM0501 media player is debuting at CeBIT 2010 in Germany.   While details on the device are sparse, the EM0501 will have an impressive 800MHz ARM processor with 512MB RAM and space for a 2.5″ SATA hard drive.   The device will include wired Ethernet and support the standard array of 1080p HD H.264, WMV, MPEG, DivX, Xvid, VOB, and MKV encoded content.   Thus far, price and availability haven’t been confirmed, but if ASUS track record is any indication (Eee Keyboard release pushed back to April), you should be able to buy this thing by 2012.   Unfortunately, wireless connectivity seems to have eluded this device, so start stringing cable if you’re interested.