LAS VEGAS — The press room here at CES is sponsored by Verizon. (Contrast that with the Monorail for the Convention Center, which is owned by Sprint Nextel and features a Sprint Nextel store and Wireless Lounge.)

Verizon has its new Motorola-manufactured HD DVR on display here. Those are available to subscribers of Verizon’s cable service, delivered over FiOS, its fiber-to-the-premises solution. That service is currently available in a handful of markets in the southern and eastern US.

According to the booth dude (no babe, sorry), the telecom has plans to “aggressively” continue expansion of its FiOS service into new markets in 2006 and beyond, although he was unable or unwilling to provide specifics on who exactly could look forward to 30Mbps Internet service. (Here’s a hint: I won’t, since I live in SBC AT&T land).

Verizon’s HD DVR will act as a complete media server and will be able to network with PCs in your home to deliver images and music wherever your network reaches: the living room, bedroom, or PC room.

One other cool product Verizon has on display is a combination VoIP cordless phone/DSL router/WiFi access point with a 7″ color LCD touch screen. Owners of the phone, which will first be available to current Verizon DSL subscribers for US$149, will be able to access services such as weather and movie listings via the touchscreen. Plans call for the phone to be made available to non-Verizon customers later in the year, but that model will lack the DSL router, instead relying on already existing broadband to operate.