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Altec Lansing made its contribution to the market for third-party Zune accessories on Monday with the announcement of its inMotion 414 Zune dock. Much like docks for the more-popular iPod, Altec’s Zune dock allows users to drop in their players and crank up the tunes without headphones.

Shaped like an extruded L, the iM414 accepts a Zune directly into its base, with a neodymium-driven speaker to either side of it. A small display on its face shows the time or lets users scroll through their favorite radio stations with the built-in FM tuner. It can be powered by either AC power or 3AA batteries, which Altec claims should offer 24 hours of play time. A full-function remote allows control of all of its functions from afar.  Read more...

Although Altec Lansing is best known today for its ubiquitous line of PC speakers, the company started out making home theater speakers, and still maintains a portfolio of higher-end offerings. It added onto that line Thursday with the announcement of the Powered Theater Series, a wireless surround sound system for flat panel TVs.

The PT8051 system features only a front speaker and a rear speaker, but delivers five separate audio channels like a traditional setup. The units accomplish this with NXT Digital drivers, which use a 8” by 1.5” flat radiating surface that Altec claims covers more room area than traditional cone speakers. If two separate units is still too much bulk, the PT7031 packs five-channel surround into just one box using the same drivers.