LG's XF1 500GB multimedia hard drive touts HDMI, shimmery case

Looking for an external hard drive with a flashy color-shifting case, reasonably stout multimedia credentials, and a website with an outrageously long flash intro? Look no further than LG's XF1, a 500GB machine with a USB interface and HDMI output to stream some high-def content straight to your set -- but at a maximum of 1080i. It'll do AVI, Xvid, and MPEGs 1, 2, and 4 along with your typical audio codecs, but conspicuously absent on the video side are H.264 and MKV, meaning it's not exactly the comprehensive playback device you might be looking for if you haven't gotten around to standardizing your downloads to a single encoding. (Guilty.) In fact, it sounds almost exactly like Iomega's 500GB ScreenPlay in a slimmer, sexier case, and when it comes to perfecting your home theater does anything other than sexiness matter? Well... maybe price and availability, but sadly those are pieces of intel LG isn't sharing just yet.

[Via Everything USB]

[Quantumphysics @ Jul 17th 2009 10:00AM]

If you get caught with one of these filled with porn - do they lock you up?

[comment_system=Fail @ Jul 17th 2009 10:14AM]

depends on whether porn is illegal where you live.

[Quantumphysics @ Jul 17th 2009 10:48AM]

what if you have legal porn, but so much of it that you are deemed a threat to national security?

I've got Exobytes worth of Porn.

[KRIS_C_123 @ Jul 17th 2009 11:24AM]

/i feel sorry for your genitals

[Adam @ Jul 17th 2009 4:03PM]

Get a girlfriend, and make sure she isn't ugly like your last one.

[Mizzie @ Jul 17th 2009 10:02AM]

Now that's sex-TASTIC!

[John Doe @ Jul 17th 2009 10:10AM]

This seems nice but I would still prefer the WDTV with 2 usb ports (so that you are not maxed out with the capacity of the disk inside), HDMI out upto 1080p, optical audio out and support for mkv and h.264.

[FGL82 @ Jul 17th 2009 10:17AM]

Isn't it "shimmering"? or did I play too much Diablo and Titan Quest?

[comment_system=Fail @ Jul 17th 2009 10:17AM]

Blue LEDs, No mkv, H.264, 1080p = Fail

WDTV FTW

[Neil @ Jul 17th 2009 10:25AM]

Yeah without MKV support the WD HD TV and the Popcorn Hour A-110 are the better options even though neither of those device come with any storage.

[Chudilo @ Jul 17th 2009 12:17PM]

And how big is the power brick?
Correct me if I'm wrong but this will not power the HD from the usb!

[T D @ Jul 29th 2009 7:20PM]

Correct me if I'm wrong but most TVs don't have USB ports.

[htd @ Jul 17th 2009 11:02AM]

I'd rather use a cheap laptop/netbook/nettop that has hdmi output, but that's just me.

[justin @ Jul 17th 2009 11:08AM]

its priced at € 199 according to gadgetfolder.com

[miggrr @ Jul 17th 2009 11:54AM]

It looks like a Bathroom Weight Scale. LOL

[Wes Steele @ Jul 17th 2009 12:01PM]

Yea it really looks like a scale you find in a bathroom.

[Jarrod @ Jul 17th 2009 12:06PM]

Just make one that keeps my drives cool is all that i facking ask!

[jason @ Jul 17th 2009 12:49PM]

No cooling? Someone is gonna be sad when they loose their porn collection :(
Enclosures without fans are funny.

[freakdiablo @ Jul 17th 2009 1:06PM]

Fine, I'll bite. My external drives without fans last just as long as internal drives. Plus, because it's 2cm thick, I'm guessing it'll use a 2.5" drive so it probably won't get hot enough to fry itself.

[jason @ Jul 17th 2009 1:14PM]

I see now, I was thinking it was a full size drive, it really doesn't look that small on the LG product page.

[b-rad @ Jul 17th 2009 2:27PM]

nice

[jg @ Jul 17th 2009 4:48PM]

USB3??? didn't think so. Can't wait (oh wait!) to put 500 measily gb's through usb2.

[acme @ Jul 17th 2009 9:47PM]

another harddrive w/ hdmi and no HD codecs...something is up.