EXHIBIT 99.2

DEG: DVD PLAYERS REACH 70 MIL. HOMES Fourth quarter software  shipments rise 39%
By Scott Hettrick 1/6/2005 (variety.com)

JAN. 6 - Another 37 million DVD players were sold to consumers in 2004, bringing
the total number of DVD  households  with a DVD player to 70 million,  or nearly
three-fourths of all TV  households,  according to figures  compiled by DEG: The
Digital Entertainment Group.

The  percentage  is  projected to increase to 80% of all TV  households  with at
least one DVD player by the end of 2005.

About 79  million  homes now have the  ability to play a DVD either on a set-top
player, a DVD-ROM computer drive or a videogame console. About 45% of DVD owners
have more than one DVD player.

DEG, a trade  association  of DVD  software  and  hardware  companies,  made the
announcement in advance of its annual state-of-the-industry  presentation at the
Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Thursday.

The group  pegged the  growth of the  overall  home video  market at 9% to $24.5
billion,  just slightly  higher than Video Business and sister  publication  DVD
Exclusive  reported a day  earlier (up 8.5% to $24.1  billion).  DEG reports DVD
retail  growth of 33% in 2004 to $15.5 billion on top of the $5.7 billion in DVD
rentals for a combined total of consumer spending on DVD of $21.2 billion.

More than 1.5 billion DVDs were shipped to retailers in 2004, nearly 530 million
in the fourth quarter alone. The latter  represents a 39% increase from the same
period in 2003,  according to figures  compiled by Kaplan,  Swicker and Simha on
behalf of the DEG.

That  brings the total  number of discs  shipped  since DVD was  launched to 3.9
billion copies of 29,000 titles.