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Today at the 2002 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Microsoft Corp. announced that several leading manufacturers are demonstrating new car stereo systems supporting Microsoft Windows Media (TM) Audio (WMA). The manufacturers include AIWA America Inc., Blaupunkt USA, Kenwood USA Corp. and Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. By including support for WMA, which provides CD-quality audio at half the file size of MP3, these systems will enable consumers to play back twice as much digital music on a single CD, more than 22 hours of their favorite music. Car stereo systems from AIWA and Blaupunkt supporting Windows Media are already available for purchase; models from Kenwood and Pioneer are scheduled for spring of this year.
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