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Early leaks

• Darren Waters
• 5 Jan 07, 08:58 AM

The show may not start officially for a few days but it would seem that some companies can barely contain their enthusiasm.

Already LG has "announced" that it will unveil a DVD player which can read both HD-DVD and Blu-ray formats, and therefore discovering a path through the absurd two-format impasse the industry was trying to impose on customers.

And film studio Warners Bros will use CES to launch a hybrid DVD disc which can store both high definition formats.
You can read about LG's announcement and the Warner Bros disc on the .

The news has been greeted enthusiastically by tech watchers.

, and are just some of the blogs reacting to LG's new player with a sigh of relief.

Elsewhere Microsoft's reported deal with Ford to put online connectivity into their cars - including e-mail and music - hit the this week.

Microsoft executives were doing a round of pre-CES briefings on the deal but a promised chat with 大象传媒 News was pulled at the last minute following the appearance of the story in the WSJ.

An apologetic PR said Microsoft didn't want to give briefings ahead of CES in case information leaked out. The fact it had already hit the WSJ didn't seem to matter.

Clearly Microsoft are worried no-one will bother to report the news now it has been widely picked up in other publications.

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