Toshiba, one of the companies promoting the HD DVD standard, showed their first round of players (the HD-A1 and HD-XA1) at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. At the time, the company planned to release these models some time in March. However, Toshiba has now announced that they will not appear until at least the middle of April, in order to coincide with the release of the first batch of HD DVD movies: (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060321-6426.html)

Toshiba Corp. said Friday it has postponed the release of high-definition DVD players in the United States until April, a month later than planned, so that it can synchronize the sales with title releases from Hollywood studies.

A precise sales date was not available, said Toshiba spokeswoman Junko Furuta

Toshiba Corp. said Friday it has postponed the release of high-definition DVD players

Ummmm... Didn't '99 just post this? Have to get the last word?