As more and more families transition to high definition, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (WDSHE) concentrates its efforts on offering consumers unprecedented quality, value and portability in the purchases of their favorite Disney Blu-ray movies with the announcement of its new Blu-ray + DVD Combo Packs.

Disney’s Combo Pack will be extended across an exciting new slate of Disney-branded theatrical and Platinum titles releasing on Blu-ray between February and October of 2009. Some of the upcoming Blu-ray + DVD Combo Pack titles families can look forward to include the teen phenomenon High School Musical 3: Senior Year (February 17), Walt Disney’s animated classic Pinocchio: 70^th Anniversary Platinum Edition (March 10) and all those leading up to the highly anticipated release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Platinum Edition in October.

“These unique Combo Packs provide the opportunity for consumers around the world to take advantage of the quality of Blu-ray with the portability of a DVD disc in a single package,” comments Bob Chapek, President of Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment. “As always, we are committed to offering our consumers exceptional quality and value when purchasing our products.”

Toshiba announced today that it has expanded its line of portable external hard drives to include a 500GB model. Like previous versions, this postcard sized hard drive is protected by an internal shock sensor and ramp-loading technology and can be powered off a computer's USB bus.

Toshiba Storage Device Division (SDD), the industry pioneer in small form factor hard disk drives (HDDs), today introduced a half-terabyte model to its personal storage line, providing consumers with a high-capacity warehouse and easy-to-use data backup solution for personal digital files, music libraries, home videos and other digital memories.

The new 500GB Toshiba USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive comes with a glossy black finish and frost white contemporary graphics that will appeal to consumers looking for the latest must-haves in personal electronics for their home office or study -- or to throw in their backpacks and travel cases, thanks to easy portability. An added bonus for home use is the new 500GB model's ultra-quiet operation, with improved acoustics in the hard drive.

Lexar Media, a leading global provider of memory products for digital media, today expanded its popular family of JumpDrive® USB flash drives with the introduction of its JumpDrive TwistTurn and JumpDrive Retrax flash drives- two new USB storage solutions that feature innovative, stylish designs and are geared to meet the demands of today's budget-conscious consumers.

Both the Lexar® JumpDrive TwistTurn and JumpDrive Retrax USB flash drives feature innovative designs based, respectively, on rotating and retracting mechanisms that eliminate the need for caps to cover the USB connectors. JumpDrive TwistTurn and JumpDrive Retrax flash drives come in a variety of attractive colors, allowing customers to choose the color best suited to his or her personal taste. These new additions to the Lexar JumpDrive line are available in a range of large capacities up to 32GB, allowing users to quickly and easily store photo, music, video, and data files.

LaCie recently announced its new LightScribe equipped external DVD writer, the LaCie d2 DVD±RW 22x with LightScribe. Along with support for FireWire and USB 2.0, LaCie's new drive features 22x DVD±R, 16x DVD+R DL, 12x DVD-R DLand 12x DVD-RAM writing speeds.

Today LaCie announced its new LaCie d2 DVD±RW 22x with LightScribe and Hi-Speed USB 2.0 and/or FireWire disc burners. The new products let customers backup large multimedia files on strikingly original-looking DVDs or CDs. With the LightScribe labeling tools available from LaCie on the 22x rewritable DVD drive, users can customize their content easily and quickly for professional and personal use. And it works with the three major personal computer operating systems.

The LaCie d2 DVD±RW 22x with LightScribe achieves the fastest DVD recording speed available on the market today. And users have a choice of connecting it to their computers via two blazingly fast interfaces: FireWire or USB 2.0. With LaCie’s new disc burner, users can store up to 8.5 GB of business presentations, files, music, photos or movies on individual discs, or the equivalent of more than two hours of theater-quality video on a large-capacity DVD.