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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