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Ximeta's NetDisk Home / Office NDAS devices serve up media
While a certain group of customers have apparently fallen madly in love with Ximeta's NDAS offerings, we're not entirely sure what these two forthcoming devices will actually be called when they land this summer. Klegg Electronics has reportedly snapped up Ximeta's NetDisk brand, but regardless of what label the NetDisk Home and NetDisk Office don, these two media servers could potentially offer up a much desired solution. According to CEPro, Ximeta is claiming that its newfangled NDAS units can "stream DVDs over the network," which could prove difficult to fulfill due to the ever-lurking DRM that will surely appear somewhere in that equation. Regardless, the NetDisk Home is slated to come in a two-bay rack and dual two-bay rack form, while the Office variety includes a single and dual four-bay rack with four hot-swappable SATA drive bays. Each will include the MediaPortal software to serve up music, photos, and videos around the network, and the fanless design should keep the noise level down within your AV system. Furthermore, the NetDisks can be configured for automatic RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 5 backup, but unfortunately, there's no built in web server nor details regarding a price just yet.Read - Klegg buys Ximeta's NetDisk BrandRead - Ximeta's NetDisk Home / Office NDAS units
Klegg Genesis GPS V-12 G01 / G02 navigation systems
While Klegg Electronics is typically known for its array of television sets and diminutive DAPs, these folks are now throwing down a new pair of GPS navigation systems in society's favorite color schemes. The Genesis V-12 G01 sports a trendy white / grey enclosure, 3.5-inch QVGA touchscreen LCD, a couple of LED indicators, rechargeable Li-ion battery, SD / MMC card slot, headphone jack, optional integrated microphone, audio / video playback, photo viewer, in-car mounting kit, and of course, the obligatory turn-by-turn guidance directed by a presumably robotic sounding dame. The G02 (pictured after the jump) features a black mesh motif, and interestingly enough, Klegg doesn't elaborate on why the ebony unit is superior to the G01, as both units tout the exact same specifications (sound familiar?), but the company does manage toss in a 1GB SD card with each unit. Although there's no hard details concerning price or availability, the G01 should reportedly end up running you somewhere close to $300 whenever these siblings land.Read - Klegg GPS V-12 G01Read - Klegg GPS V-12 G02[Via MobileWhack]
Klegg Electronics goes big with its 40-inch, MCE-infused LCD TV
Klegg seems to be kicking it up a notch from the wee LCDs it's accustomed to producing, as the 40-inch KLM-4010 is more suited for your living room than your front pocket. While it's certainly not the first LCD TV to stuff MCE functionality into its confines, this brushed aluminum beast packs quite a laundry list of impressive specs. It boasts a 1000:1 contrast ratio, 500cd/m2 of brightness, 1,366 x 768 resolution, HDMI, a pair of DVI ports, component, S-Video, composite, digital audio output, and a built-in Hauppauage PVR-150 MCE tuner. Additionally, it rocks an Intel Pentium 4 3GHz 630 processor, 1GB of RAM, a 250GB hard drive, NVIDIA GeForce 6200 graphics card, dual-layer, slot-loading DVD burner, FireWire / USB 2.0 connectors, flash card reader, and dual seven-watt integrated speakers. This PC / TV hybrid touts the ability to download video directly from the internet and store it without the need for a separate HTPC, but unfortunately there's no (presumably high) pricetag or release details to ponder over.[Via CrunchGear]
Klegg's Mini V12 video player with Bluetooth stereo audio
Klegg just dropped a new Bluetooth 2.0 video player into the mix with their Mini V12. The V12 sounds pretty sweet on paper with listed support for MP3, WMA, MPEG-4, WMV, DivX and AVI formats, a "bright" 1.8-inch TFT, 20 hour battery (audio only, presumably) and Bluetooth A2DP stereo audio support for cable-free listening. Prices will start at $100 for players in capacities of 1 / 2 / 4GB but only the 4 gigger includes Bluetooth. And yeah, Klegg's still got the minerals to boast in true ambiguous terms that the V12 is "slighter smaller than an Apple iPod." Oh, would that be the iPod nano, Shuffle, 5th gen with video or maybe some earlier generation iPod, hmm? Expect the V12 to drop mid-summer under a marketing and distribution deal with VisioNET who will provide the user interface for access to their "first-rate" media content. We say bring it Klegg... if you can. Read -- Press Release (Via dapreview) Read -- VisioNET deal
Klegg gets busy on line of HD plasmas
Now that they've thoroughly cornered the market on spurious "world's smallest" color MP3 player claims, Klegg is concentrating on something quite a bit larger: HD plasma displays. Their new line comes in 42, 50, 55 and 63-inch flavors, and all four displays are framed in some snazzy aluminum. Klegg claims to have a special TFT anti-glistening liquid crystal layer in their displays to improve contrast and picture definition, and with a 10,000:1 contrast ratio we can't argue much with their claims until we see it in action. The displays go with the fairly standard 1366 x 768 resolution, and accept 720p and 1080i picture from HDMI, DVI and component sources. The displays include an ATSC HD tuner, and plenty of other nice interfaces. No word on pricing, but the displays should be available now from select dealers.
Klegg 42, 50, 55, and 63-inch plasma HDTVs
Ok, we have heard of the Klegg Mini MP3 player - "world's smallest MP3" that really isn't - but we didn't know the company made other electronics. Whoever they are, we are curious to see their new plasma line. The aluminum framed 42, 50, 55 and 63-inch sets sound kind of nice. Somehow Klegg has developed a TFT panel overlay of liquid crystal to "enhance transparency, contrast and picture definition." We really don't understand why, or how, a TFT panel ended up in their plasmas but we aren't totally knocking it till we see it - remember this is the same company that has made the "world's smallest" MP3 player. These sets are only available from an authorized dealer and are available now.
