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The International Consumer Electronics Show has introduced the new concept of having an all in one DVD Player and Laptop combo. Toshiba has come out with new notebooks with its "Express Media Player" feature, which enables users to instantly play audio or video DVDs and CDs with a simple push of a button and more importantly without the need to first boot the Microsoft Windows operating system. Actually, Toshioba was among the first to feature a no-waiting TV mode in 2004 with its Qosmio multimedia laptop. It then began to put the boot-less mode on its high-end models. This year, Toshiba plans to integrate the feature in about 80 per cent of its models.

Expect this feature concept of an all in one DVD Player and Laptop entertainment combo to be a feature in all laptops in the coming years. This is an great step in laptop entertainment considering it still typically takes anywhere from two to four minutes for a computer to boot up its operating system and be ready for duty.

Intel's new Viiv platform of technologies (which works in conjuction with your normal OS) for home entertainment PCs will also allow users to instantly turn their machines on or off after an initial boot. The feature actually amounts to something of a deception: It works by making the PC only appear to be off by powering down the monitor, audio and external LED lights of the system. In the "off" state, the machine is actually operating normally and capable of doing tasks such as recording a TV show. The technology appears to be similar to a new feature called "Away Mode" on some current PCs running Microsoft's Windows XP Media Centre Edition.

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