Blu-ray is a new media format that is on the way replacing existing DVD especially when dealing with HD (High Definition) multimedia storage and playback, and it’s sole standard available after beating HD-DVD in format war. Although some of us may have already started to order one for digital home, but apparently the popularity is still very low in today’s PC and consumer market. According to recent iSuppli’s forecast report, the Blu-ray drive may only able to penetrate around 3.9 percent into existing PC market by this year, and not more than 16.3 percent of total PC market even in 2013, which is another four years down the road.

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Recalling a product always cause millions of dollars loss as well as inconvenience to end users. However, sometimes this situation is unavoidable especially a certain product generates safety concern to consumers. Just recently, Wal-mart has issued a recall action to recall china-brand DVD players that being sold in its chain-stores after received multiple complaints from users due to safety issue.

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Nowadays Blu-ray is a new format that is on the way replacing DVD format as storage media for multimedia entertainment system. While it has started to gain popularity in digital home, but putting it in in-car system is still not happening. Good news now for those that are looking for one to be installed in their vehicles, Panasonic has just announced the new Blu-ray player recently and dubbed as CY-BB1000D, it is claimed to be the world’s first in-dash Blu-ray player in the automotive industries.

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The leading company in HD entertainment, business signage solutions and networked accessible storage devices, Mvix (USA), Inc. has announced the availability of its new ultimate high-definition 1080p UPnP home theater media player, named as Mvix Ultio (MX-800HD). Mvix Ultio incorporates BitTorrent, samba server and UPnP implementation for seamless integration with services such as PlayOn or Tversity, specifically to stream video content from Netflix, Hulu, CBS, Youtube, CNN, ESPN and more to TV, supporting wide variety of AV formats and codecs including H.264, MKV, Dixv HD, MOV, VC-1, FLV, AVC-HD and FLAC.

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The designer and manufacturer of consumer electronics with rich Internet experience, ZINNET has launched its new networkable HD multimedia player with BitTorrent downloader capability – Brite-View CinemaCube, and a wireless HD transmission solution that able to transmit uncompressed HD content from a Blu-ray player to a HDTV without messy AV cable connections – Air HD (BV-2500), aiming to provide users an ultimate home entertainment experience.

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In view of higher demand for greater capabilities in today’s digital TV market, LG Electronics, the famous digital TV manufacturer has just announced its plan to license ARM technology to be used on its next generation digital TV products.

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The well-known digital media company, DivX, and LG Electronics have announced the launch of the new LG BD390, which the company claims as the first LG Blu-ray Disc player to support full HD (1080p) DivX video files, allowing users to watch their favorite DivX full high-definition videos on TV via Blu-ray disc, USB or streamed over home network.

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Adobe Flash is famous for its attractive and interactive animation content but at the same time it is also known to be heavy and consumes lots of CPU cycles. While it is so common in PC and smartphones market nowadays, the technology is still pretty new especially in consumer electronics products such as digital TV or set-top box. Just recently, Adobe is planning to push its Flash technology into digital home by integrating the capability into digital TV, Blu-ray players, set-top box to move a step closer to living room.

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