Toshiba, coming off of the recent launch of the HD-A2 and HD-AX2 second generation HD DVD players, has announced a third new HD DVD player, the HD-A20, at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. View this story

At the Consumer Electronics Show here in Las Vegas, LG Electronics debuted the company’s Super Multi Blue Player, announced last week. View this story

Russound is the first of the “big four” music server makers to embrace the PC-centric Media Center platform. The company promises a unit that is more reliable, and better suited to distributed audio than the other players. A version of Exceptional Innovation’s Lifeware software will ship with the PCs.View this story

One of the first companies to demonstrate HD DVD in a Media Center PC, HP is now showing a Blu-ray product, the HP bd135 Blu-ray Disc Writer, that is expected to ship in the spring. The announcement caps off more than a year of public flip-flopping between the two formats. View this story

Niveus Media, purveyor of high-end Media Center PCs, is showing at CES 2007 an external CableCard receiver that accommodates two CableCards for use with Vista PCs. The Niveus Digital Cable Receiver has two CableCard slots, allowing users to tune into and/or record two channels simultaneously—including HD premium content from cable providers. View this story

It started with a Blu-ray player in November, 2005. A few months later LG Electronics pulled the plug on that, promising a dual Blu-ray/HD DVD player instead. Then nothing. And now LG promises to demo a dual player at CES, expected to ship “early 2007.” View this story

CES marks its 40th anniversary with its largest show ever, combining high-performance audio and video for the first time. View this story