The PET749 is Philips’ latest portable DVD player that comes with built-in TV receiver. Showcased during this year’s CES, this stylish portable device offers both free-to-air TV and DVD playback. It boasts a 7-inch TFT LCD screen and provides up to 3 hours of battery life for watching television, movies and listening to music on the go. Unfortunately, there’s no word on pricing and release date yet. [AVING]

[CES 2010] Quite a few MP3 players were released, but there was only one that has a transparent OLED display: the Samsung Ice Touch. It’s a 16GB MP3 Player, and other than getting some press, there’s no real reason (seeing your feet while changing tracks?) why the 2” screen is translucent – it’s working though. Parts of the body of the MP3 player are made of tempered glass, which quite unexpected for such a device. Among the improvements, Samsung touts its TouchWiz user

LG shows at the CES 2010 its new line of network Blu-ray disc players, including the top-of-the-line BD590 that comes with integrated 250GB hard drive and built-in WiFi connectivity. Thanks to LG’s NetCast technology, the LG BD590 lets users purchase movies from VUDU service.

The BD590 also include Gracenote’s MusicID-Stream which allows consumers to hear a song playing in a movie or TV show by simply pressing a button on their remote control. It provides Full HD 1080p Blu-ray playback, 1080p upscaling, Dolby TrueHD and dts-HD Advanced

Measuring less than 6-inch in diameter, the Palm Sized DVD Player from Hammacher features a tiny 3.5-inch display screen, a USB port and an SD card slot. This gadget is ideal for those who are on-the-go. It comes with an internal battery that will last for up to 2 hours. Each purchase of the Palm-sized DVD Player comes with a remote and AV cables. $149.95 is all you need to bring home the Palm-sized DVD Player. [Red Ferret]

If you want to watch Avatar in 3D, then you should have a 3D TV and a 3D-capable Blu-ray player. Panasonic has recently released their latest DMP-BDT530. This 3D-capable Blu-ray player features Viera Cast offering you the capability to enjoy Amazon VOD, YouTube, Picassa, Netflix and so on. The player also supports DviX, MP3 and JPEG files. In addition, the Panasonic DMP-BDT530 is also compatible with high definition audio decoder (Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD Master Audio Essential). [Akihabara]

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

Philips launches its new Activa fitness MP3 player at the CES 2010. The Activa helps motivate people to work out more frequently and intensely by providing real-time vocal feedback on their performance.

The fitness audio player features the TempoMusic software that automatically matches music to a user’s workout pace. The Activa will be available in April 2010 for $129.99.

Main Features:

A set of pre-loaded songs ensures that Activa can be used for a workout right out of the box

TempoMusic matches music

LG’s new Blu-ray player won’t rip and store your movies, but the BD590 is still pretty decent. The BD590 will store your music, photos, downloaded movies, rip CDs etc, via USB or Ethernet port, though apparently not through its 802.11n Wi-Fi connection for some reason.

Unfortunately, no DVD and Blu-ray archiving. Which isn’t surprising for legal reasons. Anyway 250GB isn’t ideal for ripping Blu-Ray movies.

The BD590’s price has yet to be announced, but it has a Spring/Summer release

The LG BD590 is not your ordinary Blu-ray player. This BD player supports WiFi, BD Live, VUDU, DLNA, and a 250GB hard drive allowing you to store your downloaded contents. Additionally, the LG BD590 is also compatible with other services such as Netflix, Cinema Now, Panroda, Picassa, and YouTube. Pricing info is still unavailable. We will keep you posted. [Engadget]