ADVISORY/Rio Volt Ships

Business Wire, Jan 31, 2001

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Rio, a division of SONICblue(tm) Incorporated (Nasdaq:SBLU), announced today that it has shipped the Rio Volt, the first portable CD player in the family of Rio digital audio players. The Rio Volt plays standard music CDs and recordable CDs containing MP3 and Windows Media Audio (WMA) files -- making it possible to store and play more than 250 songs on a single CD.

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