It looks like Netgear has a new digital media player up its sleeves. Submitted for approval by the FCC, Netgear is expected to announce the Digital Entertainer Elite media player at the upcoming CES 2009 in Las Vegas. Judging from the specs alone, the Digital Entertainer Elite looks to have it all. Not only does this unit decode practically every format known to man, the media player also supports DRM protected Apple content via iTunes on the PC!

You can stream content from PCs or Macs via wired or wireless networking (it even supports Draft-N Wi-Fi), or you can slide in a 3.5 inch SATA HDD for local playback of media files.

While the specs and instruction manual sure look promising, one has to wonder whether the user interface will be ..well usable. A GUI can make or break the entire product so here’s hoping that Netgear got it right with the Digital Entertainer Elite.

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