[CES 2010] Identity seems pretty bent on the Android idea, which is a good thing since we would like to see more and more hardware manufacturers adopt Android to see what they can come up with for the mass market. The prototype Media CPE C1 was on display, where it can connect to your home network connection via WiMAX or Wi-Fi, and it doubles up as a digital photo frame with the added capability of offering media playback and support of Android widgets. Needless to say, it is equipped with a touchscreen display

As mentioned yesterday, media players are popular this year at CES. This is LaCie’s Mini HD, a “Full HD WiFi Media Center in a DVD-Sized Footprint”. Sporting a 500GB drive, the box will playback an array of formats on your HDTV. Loading content onto it is done through USB or network, be it wired or not.

It’ll be available later this quarter for $300. Keep reading for the full press release.

LaCie today unveiled LaCinema Mini HD, the all-in-one Wi-Fi High Definition media center. Its amazingly small and

Iomega ScreenPlay Director

Iomega introduces the new ScreenPlay line of HD media players, including the top of the line ScreenPlay Director. The player boasts Full HD 1080p playback at 24fps and supports modern HD video formats such as H.264, WMV, AVCHD.

Iomega ScreenPlay Plus

The ScreenPlay Director has 1TB storage capacities and offers three USB Host ports for external storage. It offers HDMI output as well as composite, component and optical audio. It has Ethernet LAN

Viliv's latest portable media player effort, the P3, might be mistaken for an iPod touch from afar due to the small square located at the bottom, but there are some visual differences as you get closer. The P3 comes with a 3.7" AMOLED touchscreen device with 800 x 480 resolution, where it is full well capable of supporting 1,280 x 720p HD video playback as well as 720p MKV movie playback. With a Coretex ARM 800MHz processor running within, it has the muscle to run Windows CE 6.0 or Android in a dual booting setup.

[CES 2010] Iomega has plans to light up CES with their latest ScreenPlay device - the ScreenPlay Director HD Media Player. This feature-rich HD media player makes it a snap to browse through your home network for content that can be viewed on the TV, while incorporating the Roxio CinemaNow entertainment platform that allows consumers to buy or rent movies and access other premium entertainment right off the Internet in the comfort of your living room (or wherever else you decide to place the TV).

Sybas, maker of the Popcorn Hour C-200, unveils at the CES 2010 its new Popbox HD media player/streamer. The player supports most media formats and offers 1080p Full HD output via HDMI.

Though lacks internal storage, the Popbox has USB ports and Ethernet so that it can play media content from attached USB devices or from computers in home network. The Popbox can also stream content from internet services such as Netflix, Crunchyroll, SHOUTcast, FunSpot, Twitter, Photobucket, Revision.

Syabas’ Popbox supports Flash Lite 3.1. In

Thank launches a 2.5-inch/3.5-inch HDD media player (model HDPLAY90) that basically docks your 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch SATA hard drive and does media playback. The player features HDMI output as well as composite, component, S-video and VGA (via adapter) outputs.

Simply dock your hard drive and the video cradle will play media files from the drive. It supports both FAT32 and NTFS file systems. Other than hard drive, Thanko’s HDPLAY90 supports SDHC cards and offers a USB Host port. It supports DivX, XviD, MPEG-4, VCD, MP3, JPEG files. A remote

Itoos has rolled out a fair number of portable media players in the past, and their latest would be the M3HDC that comes with a 3.6" TFT LCD with an aspect ratio of 16:9, featuring an e-book reader within, image browsing, an integrated FM radio, a microSD memory card slot and a TV out port, although don't expect it to handle full HD video playback. No idea on pricing or availability, but we do know it supports RM, RMVB, AVI and FLV video formats.

Cirago offers the CiragoTV Platinum CMC2000, a new HD multimedia center. The device is not just a HD media player, it can also record video via AV input (up to 720×480) and supports timer and time shift. Videos are recorded in MPEG2 format.

As a HD Media player, the Platinum CMC2000 offers up to 1080i output via HDMI. It supports MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, DivX, XviD video, MP3, WMA, OGG audio and JPEG, JPG, BMP image formats. The player supports Ethernet LAN that allows media streaming from computers in home network. It includes a multi-in-one

Cydle will introduces at the CES 2010 its P29A portable media player/mobile TV combo. The compact P29A has a 2.9-inch touchscreen and supports audio playback, video playback and image viewing. It is equipped with ASTC digital standard for Mobile TV technology as well.

The Cydle P29A will be released in Q2 2010 for $199.

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