Today at the 2002 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Microsoft Corp. announced that leading DVD player manufacturers have adopted Microsoft® Windows Media (TM) Technologies for their new DVD players. Panasonic and Apex Digital Inc. today unveiled the first DVD players supporting Windows Media Audio (WMA), which enables consumers to play back more than 22 hours of their favorite music from a single CD and, for DVD players that support DVD-R, enable them to store almost 250 albums on a single DVD. In addition, Shinco (Jiangsu Shinco Electronics Group Company Ltd.), and Toshiba Corp. announced plans to support Windows Media in DVD players introduced in 2002. These consumer electronics manufacturers account for a significant number of the DVD players manufactured and sold in the United States in 2001. In October, for the first time, the sale of DVD players to consumers eclipsed that of VCRs according to the Consumer Electronics Association.

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